Patents Assigned to SEB
  • Coffee-maker comprising an improved locking device
    Patent number: 7444924
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cartridge-operated coffee-machine, comprising a two-part housing (1) for receiving hot water supply means for an infusion head (8): one first part forming a support for at least one cartridge (2) and a mobile part for opening and closing said infusion head (8), the two parts being spaced apart by elastic return means (14), a locking device (24) for maintaining the infusion head (8) closed countering said return means and means for setting infusion parameters designed to transmit at least one signal representing the operating conditions of the machine. The invention is characterized in that it comprises means for controlling the opening of said locking device following the signal transmitted by said setting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Gilles Laigneau, Christian Jouatel
  • Weight sensor
    Patent number: 7441466
    Abstract: The invention relates to a weight sensor comprising strain gauges which are deposited in thick films on a support (2). The support is made from an electrically-insulating material which is intended to be applied to a metallic body (1) that is essentially subject to bending. According to the invention, the support (2) comprises a ceramic material which has a Young's modulus E2 that is equal to or less than that E1 of the biased metallic body (1) and which is applied to the latter by means of gluing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Benoit Linglin, Didier Anthoine-Milhomme
  • Machine for Preparing an Infusion
    Publication number: 20080229933
    Abstract: A machine for preparing an infusion includes: an infusion chamber (14) delimited by a lower vessel (3) and an upper packing head (6) that can move relative to one another; a supply of hot pressurized water to the infusion chamber, the packing head (6) having an inner conduit (26) having an inlet (27) that communicates with the infusion chamber and enabling the infusion to pass through the packing head (6) in an upward direction toward the distribution outlet, and; elements (30) located inside the conduit (26) in the vicinity of its inlet and configured for forming the foam in the infusion when passing through the packing head (6) and for preventing the infusion from returning into the infusion chamber. These elements are formed by a deformable flexible piece (30) passed through by at least one hole (35) calibrated for forming the foam and for preventing the infusion from returning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Gilles Morin, Gerard Brunee
  • HAIRSTYLING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20080216860
    Abstract: A hairstyling device composed of a handle (1), at least one heating part (3) cooperating with a retaining part (2), each mounted in a respective housing (6, 22; 5, 20) joined to the handle (1), at least one of the heating (3) or retaining (2) parts being float-mounted inside its housing (6, 5), hair being able to be inserted between the heating part (3) and the retaining part (2). At least one of the heating (3) or retaining (2) parts has a first permanent magnet (11) cooperating with a second, opposing permanent magnet (12) belonging to its housing (6, 22; 5, 20), the second permanent magnet being mounted in phase with the first.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Marc LEGRAIN
  • Fryer with Automatic Coating of Fat
    Publication number: 20080213447
    Abstract: A dry cooking fryer (1) comprising a main body (2) receiving food items that are to be fried, and a stirrer (6) automatically coats the items with a film of fat by mixing the food items with fat. The coated food items are cooked within the fryer without immersion in a cooking fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Payen, Jean-Claude Bizard
  • Articulating handle for space-saving cookware and method for using same
    Publication number: 20080179211
    Abstract: An articulating handle for an item of cookware is provided. The articulating handle is configured for connection with the cookware through a hinge assembly. The handle may be locked into substantially horizontal position such as for use of the cookware, or a substantially vertical position for storage. As such, cookware including such a handle can be stacked in a space-saving manner. A method for stacking cookware and a stack of cookware incorporating such a handle are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicants: SEB S.A., Groupe SEB USA
    Inventors: Duane Kutsch, Daniel Altheimer, Ken Morris, Christopher Keidl
  • BREAD BAKING SUPPORT AND ASSOCIATED APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20080164245
    Abstract: A bread baking support for a baking appliance, the support having at least one mold of elongated shape having a substantially semicircular cross-section. The longitudinal edges of the support have substantially vertical walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Michel Klinger, Lionel Reyes
  • Air Flow Cooking Device
    Publication number: 20080163764
    Abstract: The invention relates to a household cooking appliance (1) comprising food-receiver (2) for receiving loose pieces of food (100), and heater means including generator means (3) for generating a flow of air (4), said household appliance being characterized in that the generator means (3) for generating the flow of air (4) include an air outlet (5) and an air inlet (6), the appliance (1) further comprising a screen (7) arranged relative to the air outlet (5) and to the air inlet (6) so that it forces the flow of air (4) to go around the screen (7) in order to reach the air inlet (6) from the food-receiver (2). Cooking appliances of the deep fryer type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Payen, Jean-Claude Bizard
  • EASY-TO-CLEAN COOKING SURFACE AND ELECTRICAL HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE COMPRISING SUCH A SURFACE
    Publication number: 20080156197
    Abstract: Food cooking surface for a kitchen utensil or cooking appliance, constituted by the surface of a compound fabricated starting from an alloy whose two principal components are zirconium and cobalt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Stephane TUFFE, Alain Coudurier
  • Electrical household appliance having means for detecting the opening of a plug
    Patent number: 7392607
    Abstract: A household electric appliance having an orifice, or passage, closed by a plug, or stopper, wherein the appliance further includes a unit for detecting opening of the plug, the unit allowing, when power is supplied to the appliance, a detection that opening of the plug previously occurred, when power was not being supplied to the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Marie-Alix Vialle, Pascal Badol, Jean Philippe Robin
  • Pressure-cooking appliance having a single control member for decompression and for locking/unlocking
    Patent number: 7373874
    Abstract: The invention relates to an appliance for cooking food under pressure, the appliance comprising: a bowl and a lid; locking/unlocking means suitable for going between a locking position in which the lid (2) is locked relative to the bowl and an unlocking position; and decompression means (6) for decompressing the vessel; wherein said locking/unlocking means and said decompression means (6) are connected functionally to a single, common control member (7A), said control member (7A) being designed to be suitable for finding itself in a locking and decompression position in which the locking/unlocking means find themselves in their locking position, while the decompression means are activated. The invention is applicable to household appliances for cooking under pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Seb S.A.
    Inventors: Claire Marie-Aurore Seurat Guiochet, Daniel Jean-Marie Anota, Eric Chameroy
  • COOKING APPLIANCE AND PIVOTAL DEVICE FOR RAISING AND LOWERING A BASKET FOR DRAINING COOKED FOOD
    Publication number: 20080110349
    Abstract: A device for raising and lowering a basket out of and into the tank of a cooking appliance. The device has a support adapted to rest on the cooking appliance and to be coupled to the basket for moving the basket with respect to the support between a raised position and a lowered position, and a handle mounted for movement between a first position to place the basket in the raised position, and a second position to place the basket in the lowered position. The support includes a hub mounted to have a certain degree of rotational freedom, together with the basket, with respect to the appliance about an axis extending in the direction of the basket, and the handle is connected to the hub for movement between the first position and the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Olivier MATHEY, Pascal DIRAND
  • Mixer foot and hand held mixer equipped with the foot
    Patent number: 7371003
    Abstract: A foot component of a hand mixer or blender, the hand mixer or blender having a case that houses a motor and the foot component being constructed to be coupled to the case. The foot component is composed of: a tube having a lower end; a bell made of a first material connected to the lower end of the tube, the bell having a lower edge; and a protection element covering the lower edge of the bell and made of a material that is softer than the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Franck Hamelin
  • Method for the Electrical Protection of an Electrical Household Appliance
    Publication number: 20080092750
    Abstract: A method is provided for the electrical protection of an electrical household appliance that is used to prepare food. The appliance includes an electric pump which is supplied with alternating current in order to convey a liquid through a conduit and a heating element in order to raise the temperature of the liquid. The instantaneous value of the current I supplied to the pump is measured at regular time intervals. The method includes calculating the average value ?n of the current I measurements m taken over a pre-determined time period T; comparing the average value ?n with a reference value ?ref calculated as the average value of the current I measurements taken over an earlier period of the same length; and opening the pump supply circuit when the difference between the average values ?ref and ?n exceeds a pre-determined threshold value ?1 for at least two successive time periods T.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Patrick Leveque
  • Automatic coffeemaker
    Patent number: 7357071
    Abstract: An automatic coffeemaker having, at the interior of a housing: an infusion group that includes an infusion chamber arranged to receive a pressing piston and means for actuating a relative sliding movement, between the pressing piston and the infusion chamber, between a rest position in which the piston is outside of the infusion chamber and a working position in which the piston is inside the infusion chamber; and a ground coffee distributor having a distribution orifice that communicates with a chute arranged to channel ground coffee toward the infusion chamber, wherein a drawer for collecting ground coffee grains is disposed under the chute and covers the periphery of the infusion chamber, the drawer being mounted in a manner to allow it to be directly withdrawn from the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Geroult, Séverine Mih
  • EASY-TO-CLEAN COOKING SURFACE AND ELECTRICAL HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE COMPRISING SUCH A SURFACE
    Publication number: 20080081211
    Abstract: Food cooking surface for a kitchen utensil or cooking appliance, constituted by the surface of a compound fabricated starting from an alloy whose two principal components are zirconium and cobalt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Stephane Tuffe, Alain Coudurier
  • Espresso coffeemaker with removable water reservoir
    Patent number: 7347137
    Abstract: The invention concerns an espresso coffeemaker having a removable water reservoir (4) connected to a main hydraulic circuit including a pump which sucks up water from the reservoir (4) and sends it into a heating unit and hence through the ground coffee contained in a filter-holder, said reservoir (4) being also connected to a return water hydraulic circuit exiting from the heating unit. The invention is characterized in that the device (28) connecting said reservoir (4) to said hydraulic circuits comprises means for expanding (49) the water jet returning through the hydraulic circuit to the reservoir and means for directing (44) said jet to a storage zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean Marie Lafond, Patrick Charles, Alexandre Rouches
  • Pressing iron having an improved cord guide device
    Patent number: 7343703
    Abstract: A pressing iron composed of a case provided with an opening and a power cord that extends from the opening, and a cord guide device mounted to the case and disposed in the opening for reinforcing the cord in a region adjacent to the case in order to limit flexural of the cord. The cord guide device includes a body enveloping a portion of the cord and a mobile guide member for permitting the extent of the cord that is reinforced by the cord guide device to be varied. The mobile guide member is supported by the body and is adapted to occupy a folded up position in which the mobile guide member is substantially integrated into the body and a deployed position in which the mobile guide member projects outside of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Christian Giovalle, Sylvain Maudhuit, Amar Djeroro
  • IRONING APPLIANCE HAVING A CORD STORAGE CAVITY
    Publication number: 20080052971
    Abstract: An apparatus composed of: a steam generating base delimited by a periphery; a fabric smoothing appliance; and a cord connecting the base to the appliance, the cord having a length, a transverse width and a transverse height, the base being provided with a cavity for storing the cord, the cavity having an elongated form and extending in length along the periphery of the base, and the cavity being provided with at least one opening for the introduction of the cord into the cavity. The cavity is defined by a sheath extending in length as a prolongation of the opening for receiving the cord, and the cavity has a transverse cross section adapted to permit passage and maintenance of the cord in the form of a single loop extending along the length of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Christian Giovalle, Christophe Turck
  • Baking pan
    Patent number: D569676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignees: SEB S.A., Groupe SEB USA
    Inventors: André David Millsap, Paul Metaxatos