Patents Assigned to SEB
  • Patent number: 7145105
    Abstract: The invention concerns an electric kettle comprising a power supply base (1) including electrical connection means (3), and, a removable container (2) including a reservoir (4), a electrical heating element (5), matching electrical connection means (8) adapted to co-operate with the electrical connection means (3) of the base (1), and control means (9) adapted to interrupt electric power supply of the electrical heating element (5) and which comprise a switch mobile between an open position and a closed position. The invention is characterized in that the power supply base (1) comprises a manual control knob (11) mobile between a neutral position and an activating position, and the kettle comprises transmission means (12) adapted to shift the switch in closed position when the manual control knob (11) is placed in activating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventor: Hervé Gaulard
  • Publication number: 20060249030
    Abstract: A coffeemaker composed of: a plurality of infusion heads that can each receive a predetermined quantity of a product to be infused; a common hydraulic circuit including, connected in series: a water reservoir; a flow meter for measuring the rate of flow of water from said reservoir; a pump; a heater; and a plurality of parallel outlet tubes each connected to an outlet of the heater, the heater and the pump being operative to deliver water from the reservoir to the heater through the flow meter; a control unit connected to the flow meter and the pump being for controlling the operation of the coffeemaker; and distribution devices connected in series with each of the outlet tubes and connected to be controlled by the control unit for delivering water or steam to each of infusion head as a function of signals received from the flow meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Denis Bienvenu, Frederic Hiron
  • Patent number: 7127839
    Abstract: An iron including an additive reservoir and a device for spreading the additive onto an article. The reservoir contains at least one additive packaged in the form of microcapsules in suspension in a liquid, the microcapsules having membranes made of a material that is chemically compatible with the materials of the device used for spreading the additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Stèphanie Pessayre, Jean Louis Compeau, Bertrand Couet
  • Publication number: 20060219102
    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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Geroult, Severine Mih
  • Patent number: 7114273
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laundry iron comprising a water reservoir (3) provided with a filling hole (5) situated at the rear end of the iron so that the reservoir (3) is filled while holding the iron tipped forward. Said reservoir (3) communicates with a drop-by-drop body (7) that supplies a vaporization chamber (10). The invention is characterized in that the drop-by-drop body (7) is supplied by a channel (8) that open near the rear of the reservoir (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Christian Giovalle, Michel Jouvel
  • Publication number: 20060207445
    Abstract: A juicer composed of: a housing provided to receive a rotatable element for extraction of juice; an arm that is mounted to the housing to pivot about an axis with respect to the housing; a pressing element for pressing a fruit half against the rotatable element; and a pivot element mounting the pressing element to the arm to pivot about a pivot axis with respect to the arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Cyril Durris, Laurent David, Marc Suberbie
  • Patent number: 7098427
    Abstract: A device for filtering the frying bath of an electric fryer having a heating resistor that is immersed in a frying bath in a tank during frying, the device including: a filter screen adapted to extend beneath the immersed electric resistor; and at least one holding element for connecting said screen to the immersed electric resistor. An electric fryer composed of; a tank provided to receive a frying bath; an electric heating resistor provided to be immersed in the frying bath; and the device described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Valérie Vuillemot Ducarme, Frédéric Seurat
  • Patent number: 7096611
    Abstract: The inventive steam iron comprises a water reservoir (3) provided with a filling orifice (5) arranged on the rear face of the iron in such a way that the reservoir (3) is filled when the iron is tilted forward. Said reservoir comprises a ventilation circuit provided with an end penetrating into the rear part of the reservoir (3) and an end communicating with external air and arranged on the top front part of the iron. The iron is characterised in that said ventilation circuit comprises a pipe (12) which has a small cross section, is introduced into the rear part of the reservoir (3) and is extended by a hollow end element (15) whose cross section is greater and which extends downwards and is provided with an opening in the lower part thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Sylvain Maudhuit, Michel Jouvel, Christian Giovalle, Michel Aloth
  • Publication number: 20060169812
    Abstract: A food processing appliance having: a drive shaft coupled to a motor; a bowl having a hollow sleeve that extends upwardly from its bottom; a lid for closing the bowl; and a processing tool that includes a hub having an opening that extends from its lower end, and arranged to be fitted over the sleeve. The tool has a drive element coupleable to the drive shaft to be rotated by the motor. The lid is constructed to be placed on the bowl in a manner that leads to a reduction in the volume enclosed between the bowl and the lid while maintaining a degree of fluid tightness. The hub is provided with a vent and encloses a passage that is distinct from the lower drive element and that extends between the vent and the opening to allow escape of air from the volume to a region outside of the bowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Remi Galban, Marc Suberbie
  • Patent number: 7080471
    Abstract: Pressing iron having a soleplate (1) presenting an ironing surface and a periphery having three vertices (P1, P2, P3) presenting different angles. Two of the vertices (P1, P2) of the soleplate are, on the one hand, connected together by a convex curve delimiting one edge (C) of the soleplate (1) and, on the other hand, are connected to the third point (P3) by substantially straight or slightly convex curves delimiting other edges (D1, D2) of the soleplate (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Dominique Gelus, Edgar Hipp, Fabrice Renault
  • Patent number: 7075537
    Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for measuring a biological parameter of an individual comprising measuring means, means for storing and/or for computing values of said parameter connected to a display (3) for graphic representation of the measured parameter relative to a representation axis. The invention is characterized in that said display (3) is designed to adjust the measured parameter relative to a reference zone delimited on either side on said axis by a fixed mark combined with at least an adjacent digital indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Bénédicte Simond, Yves Patras
  • Patent number: D525478
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Lionel Averty
  • Patent number: D525480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Philippe Piret
  • Patent number: D527570
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Lionel Averty
  • Patent number: D528348
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Lionel Averty
  • Patent number: D530565
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Konstantin Grcic
  • Patent number: D532250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Philippe Roussard
  • Patent number: D533012
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventors: Laurent Massaloux, Olivier Sidet, Robert Stadler
  • Patent number: D533022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Philippe Piret
  • Patent number: D533393
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventors: Olivier Sidet, Laurent Massaloux, Robert Stadler