Patents Assigned to SEB
  • Article Including a Sol-Gel Coating Equipped with a Functional Design and Process for Producing Such an Article
    Publication number: 20120018433
    Abstract: This invention relates to an article (1) including a substrate (2) including two opposite faces (21, 22), and a sol-gel coating (3) covering at least one of the faces (21, 22) of said substrate (2), in which said sol-gel coating (3) is in the form of a continuous film of a material including a matrix formed by at least one metal polyalkoxylate and at least 5% by weight with respect to the total weight of the coating (3) of at least one metal oxide dispersed in said matrix. According to the invention, the sol-gel coating (3) is coated with a functional design (4) including at least one optically non-transparent chemical substance. This invention also relates to a process for producing an article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Stephanie Le Bris, Aurelien Dubanchet, Isabelle Joutang, Jean-Luc Perillon
  • PRESSURE-COOKING UTENSIL PROVIDED WITH A LOCKING/UNLOCKING CONTROL MEMBER THAT OPERATES ASYMMETRICALLY
    Publication number: 20120012584
    Abstract: The invention relates to a food-cooking utensil including: locking/unlocking means; and a control member (6) for controlling the movement of said locking/unlocking means; the control member (6) and the locking/unlocking means co-operating so that the position of the locking/unlocking means varies as a function of the position of the control member (6) in a first relationship while the control member (6) is being moved from its locking position towards its unlocking position, and so that the position of the locking/unlocking means varies as a function of the position of the control member (6) in a second relationship while the control member (6) is being moved from its unlocking position towards its locking position. Food pressure cooking devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Chameroy, Michel Pierre Cartigny
  • Pressure cooker equipped with a gripping part attached to the pan
    Patent number: 8096440
    Abstract: Pressure cooker equipped with a gripping part attached to the pan. The invention relates to a domestic pressure cooker comprising: a pan (2) which itself comprises a wall. a lid designed to be attached to the pan (2) to form with the latter a cooking chamber that is substantially impervious. at least one gripping part (20), attached to the pan (2) by means of attachment means (20A), characterized in that the attachment means (20A) at least comprise: an attachment orifice (200A) passing through the wall of the pan (2), wherein said attachment orifice (200A) is positioned on the wall of the pan (2) so that it does not communicate with the inside of the cooking chamber, and an attachment part (201A), connected to the gripping part (20) and extending through the attachment orifice (200A). Cooking devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Jacques Rhetat, Michel Pierre Cartigny
  • Pressure cooker with overpressure safety device
    Patent number: 8096436
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure cooking appliance (1) having: a bowl (2) with a side wall (2B), a lid (3), a sealing gasket (4) interposed between the side wall (2B) and the lid (3), said appliance (1) being designed so that, when the pressure inside the chamber reaches a predetermined safety value, the gasket (4) moves up to reach a safety position, said appliance (1) being characterized in that the side wall (2B) comprises a geometrical irregularity (10) intended to interact with the gasket (4) when the latter is located at the predetermined safety position thereof so as to interrupt the contact between the gasket (4) and the side wall (2B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Jacques Rhetat, Nathalie Bouye
  • Working Vessel Including a Removable Collar and Electric Household Appliance for Culinary Preparation Equipped with Such a Vessel
    Publication number: 20120006921
    Abstract: Working vessel for an electric household appliance for culinary preparation including a removable collar (4) and a casing (3) comprising a bottom end equipped with an opening (30A) surrounded by a sleeve (30) on which said collar (4) can be coupled by turning, said collar (4) comprising a tool holder plate (43) designed to project through said opening (30A), wherein the working vessel includes locking means (6) movable between a locking position, in which the collar (4) and the casing (3) cannot be uncoupled, and an unlocking position in which they can be uncoupled, characterized in that the locking means (6) occupy the locking position when the working vessel is held right side up and the unlocking position when the working vessel is held upside down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Damien Maunoury, Christophe Lemarie, Michèle Beunache
  • Cooking Article With Folding Handle
    Publication number: 20120006827
    Abstract: Cooking article (1) consists of a vessel (3) with a bottom surface (4) and a lateral surface (5), and at least one handle (10) and 11) attached to lateral surface (5) formed by assembly one (20) and assembly two (40), with each assembly (20 and 40) connected to vessel (3) to pivot between a storage position and a working position in which the two assemblies (20 and 40) form a single unit extending radially to lateral surface (5). Each assembly (20 and 40) is essentially aligned with the lateral surface (5) and assembly two (40) contains a gripping section (47) which extends above vessel (3) to allow a user to hold the cooking article (1) when inserting it into or removing it from a similar, slightly larger cooking article (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Guy Magnouloux
  • PRESSURE-COOKING UTENSIL HAVING A DUAL-PURPOSE LOCKING/UNLOCKING CONTROL MEMBER
    Publication number: 20120000909
    Abstract: The invention relates to a utensil for cooking food under pressure, which utensil comprises firstly a vessel and a lid and secondly a control member (6) for controlling locking/unlocking of the lid relative to the vessel, said utensil being characterized in that said control member (6) is mounted to move on the lid between firstly a deployed position corresponding to the lid being unlocked, and in which said control member (6) is designed to be taken hold of manually in order to enable the lid to be handled, and secondly a retracted position corresponding to the lid being locked and in which said control member is designed to be more difficult to take hold of manually than it is in the deployed position. Utensils for cooking food under pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Chameroy, Philippe Roussard
  • COMPOSITE COOKWARE COMPRISING A VITREOUS PROTECTIVE COATING
    Publication number: 20110308989
    Abstract: A composite cookware for food preparation and process for manufacturing composite cookware. The composite cookware includes a metallic composite support element, the outer surface of which is covered by a vitreous protective coating. The protective coating is a continuous film having a thickness of at least 10 ?m and formed of a sol-gel material including a matrix of at least one polyalcoxysilane and at least one metal oxide dispersed in the matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: SEB SA
    Inventors: Aurélien Berrux, Gaëlle Barcikowski
  • Brewing Device With Ground Coffee Quantity Control and Coffee Machine Comprising Such a Device
    Publication number: 20110297002
    Abstract: A brewing device (2) for an espresso-type coffee machine including a brewing chamber (12) for receiving ground coffee, a movably mounted pressure piston (13) in translation with a stroke that extends from an upper retracted position in which the pressure piston (13) is located above the brewing chamber (12) to a lower tamping position in which the pressure piston (13) enters said brewing chamber (12) and a potentiometer controlled by driving means during the stroke of the pressure piston (13) to measure the tamping position of said pressure piston and to thereby calculate the height of the compressed cake of ground coffee. The driving means only act on the potentiometer for a portion of the stroke of the pressure piston (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Arnaud VITEL, Gilles LEBUFFE, Thierry GAILHARD
  • Culinary item presenting improved hydrophobic properties and method of manufacturing such an item
    Patent number: 8071219
    Abstract: The invention concerns a culinary item comprising a support element and a first coating of a sol-gel baked composition, said first coating overlying at least a portion of a first face of the support element, wherein said culinary item further comprises a second coating of a silicone-based baked composition overlying at least a portion of the first coating. The invention also involves a method of manufacturing such a culinary item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Aurélien Berrux, Pierre-Jean Muller, Jean-Luc Perillon
  • Easy-to-clean cooking surface
    Patent number: 8070010
    Abstract: A food cooking surface for a cooking appliance, a method of producing that surface and a method of cooking food with a cooking appliance having that food cooking surface. The food cooking surface is made of a metal alloy of zirconium and of at least another metal, the zirconium content is not less than 75 wt %. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the alloy contains less than 10 wt % of elements added to zirconium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Alain Coudurier
  • Device for heating milk and coffee machine comprising same
    Patent number: 8061264
    Abstract: A device for heating milk includes a body (2) having: a steam injecting conduit and a milk conduit emerging into a suction chamber; and a heating chamber (4) extending from an outlet of the suction chamber to an outlet (7) through which the heated milk can flow outside said body (2). The heating chamber (4) includes a globally helical inner conduit (40). A coffee machine including such a device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Romain Turpin, Nicolas Bazin, Pascal Meyer
  • Distributor of powdered product with removable reservoir
    Patent number: 8051765
    Abstract: A distributor of powdered product, the distributor having a case, a reservoir removably installable in a housing formed in the case, the reservoir having a distribution orifice and being adapted to contain the powdered product and to be installed in the housing by a vertical translation movement, and elements for locking the reservoir in an intended position in the housing, with associated elements for confirming that the reservoir is correctly positioned inside the housing, elements for confirming including a switch that is responsive to the position of the reservoir in the housing and that forms part of an operating control of a machine associated with the distributor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Gilles Morin, Séverine Mih
  • Cookware handle with compressible grip
    Patent number: 8046876
    Abstract: A cookware handle designed to be grasped by a user's hand, consisting of a rigid structure attached to the cookware, and a flexible grip surrounding the rigid structure. The flexible grip has at least one part consisting of a wall that is from 2 to 10 mm thick, and preferably 5 mm thick, that creates a hand support surface, and at least one hollow cavity inside the grip is adjacent to the wall to enable said wall to be compressed when the handle is grasped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Ludovic Pasquini
  • Stiffened flexible baking tin
    Patent number: 8047500
    Abstract: The baking tin comprises a hollow part (1a) made of a flexible material having a side wall (3) whose upper end defines an opening (5), and a rigid reinforcement (7). Another annular or disk-shaped reinforcement (11?) is linked to the bottom (2), close to the join with the side wall (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventor: Nathalie Bergeret
  • Coffee maker equipped with a steam nozzle
    Patent number: 8047125
    Abstract: The inventive coffee machine is provided with a housing (2) including a coffee output (9, 10), a steam generator and a steam output nozzle (20) which is movable with respect to the housing and is provided with a free end (22) immersible into a cup. The free end is introducible into a space under the coffee output (9, 10) and is translationally displaceable between an elevated position in which the free end (22) is placed at least substantially at the level of the coffee output (9, 10) and a lower position in which the free end (22) is immersible into a cup which is positioned in such a way that it receives espresso coffee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Nicolas Bazin, Gilles Morin, Romain Turpin, Didier Brodin
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING MILK FOAM
    Publication number: 20110262606
    Abstract: A milk-foaming method including a preliminary preheating step during which milk is heated to a foam start production temperature between 30 and 40° C., and a foaming step during which air is added to said preheated milk such as to produce milk foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: SEB SA
    Inventors: Mathilde Blondel, Gilles Morin, Lionnel Durand, Peter Ireman, Patrick Deliens
  • Coffee Machine
    Publication number: 20110226131
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coffee machine (1) including a ground coffee dispensing device (3), a percolating device (4) and a tray for recovering coffee grounds (5). According to the invention, shown in a section along the horizontal plane, the ground coffee dispensing device (3), the percolating device (4) and the recovery tray (5) are arranged in three areas (22, 23, 24) with a substantially rectangular shape and contiguous to one another, a first area with a vessel (22) for the recovery tray (5) and a second vessel (15), a second percolation area (23) for the percolating device (4), and a third adjoining area (24) for the ground coffee dispensing device (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: SEB SA
    Inventor: Gilles Morin
  • COOKING UTENSIL WITH EXTENDED ANTI-DEFORMATION SLOTS
    Publication number: 20110226136
    Abstract: A cooking utensil includes a base (3) doubled underneath via an insert (1a) made from a hard material with openings (7) crossing the insert for the fixing thereof to the base. At least some of the openings are in the form of elongated slots (31a) individually defining over the length thereof, a global arched form with opposing end portions either leading to the centre of the insert or to the external periphery (10a) of the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: SEB SA
    Inventors: Jocelyn Bonnel, Pascal Cuillery
  • Pot or pan lid with a draining function and a large area view
    Patent number: 8016122
    Abstract: A culinary vessel lid in the form of a cover that is adapted for covering the vessel and that includes a transparent covering part, a metal covering part provided with through openings intended for draining foods and a silicone retaining ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Oliver Coudurier, Ludovic Pasquini