Patents Assigned to SEB
  • Heating article comprising a surface coated with a decorative element capable of color change
    Patent number: 6551693
    Abstract: A heating appliance, such as a cooking container, has an inside surface coating including a decoration which changes color as a function of temperature. A decoration based on a thermostable resin and a chemical substance which changes color as a function of temperature is applied over a fluorocarbon resin coating on the inside of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventors: Jean Pierre Buffard, Laurent Voisin, Claudine Gardaz
  • Cooking appliance having a tank and a secure emptying device
    Publication number: 20030070557
    Abstract: A cooking appliance composed of: a housing; a vessel provided to be placed in the housing and arranged to receive a cooking bath; an emptying device provided in the vessel for permitting the cooking bath to be drained from the vessel; an emptying receptacle for receiving the cooking bath from the vessel; a first valve associated with the emptying device; a maneuvering button associated with the emptying device; and a control mechanism mounted on the emptying receptacle and interposed between the maneuvering button and the first valve for moving the first valve between open and closed positions and response to movements of the maneuvering button, wherein the emptying receptacle is removable from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Bizard
  • Electric cooking appliance having an electric connector at the outside of the casing
    Patent number: 6536333
    Abstract: An electric cooking appliance, such as a fryer, having a receptacle provided to receive a cooking liquid, the receptacle being disposed at least partially in a casing having a lateral wall, and an electric connector mounted in an opening of the lateral wall of the casing, the electric connector being provided to cooperate with a mating electric connector connected at the end of a power supply cord. The lateral wall of the casing has an outer rim disposed above the opening, creating a conduit, or trough, that is arranged to keep any liquid that is flowing along the lateral wall of the casing at a distance from the electric connector mounted in the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Bernard Bouly, Céline Sobole
  • Waste recuperating electrical appliance with tubular filter
    Patent number: 6536075
    Abstract: A waste recuperating electrical apparatus (13) composed of a suction device that includes in particular an electric motor (20) and a suction turbine (22), a suction aperture (16a), and a tubular filter (1) forming a waste receptacle. The apparatus (13) further has a housing (14) arranged between the suction aperture (16a) and the suction turbine (22) with both of which it communicates on either side through ducts (16b) and the tubular filter (1) is arranged in the housing (14) such that one of its end orifices (6) is sealed and the opposite end orifice (4) is directly connected to the suction nozzle duct (16b). The filter housing has elements maintaining (3) the filter spaced from the filter (1) housing (14) inner wall so as to increase the volume around the duct enclosing the filter periphery in the suction turbine direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jacques Bonnet, Jose Saude
  • Safety device for opening a pressure cooker with lug-bayonet type closure
    Patent number: 6523459
    Abstract: Pressure cookers are disclosed comprising a pan having a pan ramp, a lid having a handle and a lid ramp cooperative with the pan ramp to provide a bayonet closure, such that the pan and lid ramps can be cooperatively engaged in the closed position, an abutment for preventing further rotation of the lid, a lock mechanism for locking the lid relative to the pan, a controller to control the lock mechanism to move it an unlocking and locking positions in which the lid cannot be removed from the pan, a pressure indicator mounted with respect to the lid movable between positions in which the pressure within the pressure cooker cannot leak therethrough and is permitted to leak therethrough, and a unitary assembly mounted on the lid independent of the handle in which the pressure indicator, the controller and the lock mechanism are mounted on the unitary assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Chameroy, Eric Christian Jacques Rhetat, Eric Laurent Baraille
  • Domestic electrical appliance for steam cooking with reduced release of steam
    Patent number: 6474222
    Abstract: A domestic electrical appliance for cooking with steam, having a steam production device (43) composed of a steam reservoir (45) associated with a heating unit (46), a cooking enclosure (41) supplied with steam by the steam production device, and a steam detector (49) associated with elements for reducing the power of the heating unit, the cooking enclosure (41) having at least one exhaust (61, 61′, 62, 62′) to the outside. The cooking enclosure (41) communicates through a descending conduit (63) with a chamber (64) of the appliance in which the steam detector (49) is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Nicolas Pretre
  • Pouring container having a non-drip lip
    Patent number: 6474514
    Abstract: A container for pouring liquids, composed of a vessel having a longitudinal axis and a bottom, and a pouring lip made of a plastic material. The pouring lip has a central pouring part having a pouring end, and lateral parts, and the lip is composed of: an upper wall, a lower wall and a connecting surface that extends between the upper wall and the lower wall; the upper wall is inclined downwardly into the vessel when the longitudinal axis of the vessel has a vertical orientation; and, in the central pouring part, the connecting surface is free of any sharp edge and has an upper segment having a radius of curvature between 0.5 and 2 mm in a plane passing through the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Christophe Guillemin, Erik Lebrun
  • DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE FOR STEAM COOKING WITH REDUCED RELEASE OF STEAM
    Publication number: 20020157542
    Abstract: A domestic electrical appliance for cooking with steam, having a steam production device (43) composed of a steam reservoir (45) associated with a heating unit (46), a cooking enclosure (41) supplied with steam by the steam production device, and a steam detector (49) associated with elements for reducing the power of the heating unit, the cooking enclosure (41) having at least one exhaust (61, 61′, 62, 62′) to the outside. The cooking enclosure (41) communicates through a descending conduit (63) with a chamber (64) of the appliance in which the steam detector (49) is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Nicolas Pretre
  • Electric cooking appliance having an electric connector at the outside of the casing
    Publication number: 20020152897
    Abstract: An electric cooking appliance, such as a fryer, having a receptacle provided to receive a cooking liquid, the receptacle being disposed at least partially in a casing having a lateral wall, and an electric connector mounted in an opening of the lateral wall of the casing, the electric connector being provided to cooperate with a mating electric connector connected at the end of a power supply cord. The lateral wall of the casing has an outer rim disposed above the opening, creating a conduit, or trough, that is arranged to keep any liquid that is flowing along the lateral wall of the casing at a distance from the electric connector mounted in the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Bernard Bouly, Celine Sobole
  • Cooking vessel for steamer
    Patent number: 6443053
    Abstract: A cooking element for a steamer, composed of: a tubular side wall; a removable perforated bottom, the tubular side wall having an interior surface provided with a shoulder on which the perforated bottom rests; a first element carried by the interior surface of the tubular side wall; and a second element carried by, and located beneath, the perforated bottom. The first element is located to block the second element when the perforated bottom rests on the shoulder, one of the elements is a tongue, and the other of the elements is an abutment. A cooking element for a steamer, composed of a tubular side wall, a removable perforated bottom and a removable handle, wherein the perforated bottom has orifices adapted for rapid connection of the removable handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Fabrice Rossi
  • Vacuum cleaner nozzle
    Patent number: 6430773
    Abstract: Vacuum cleaner nozzle having a triangular base member (4) provided with a rim having two lateral sides (18) and a rear side (21), the two lateral sides forming an angle with one another and meeting at a corner region (6) that faces in the direction in which the nozzle is pushed during vacuuming. The corner region (6) has at least one front suction opening (7) to assure a suction in a direction substantially parallel to the surface to be cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jacky Buron, Jerome Fabron
  • Device for locking/unlocking a pressure cooker with lug-bayonet type closure
    Patent number: 6425320
    Abstract: A pressure cooking apparatus has a locking device for locking the lid of the apparatus relative to the pan of the apparatus. The lid includes lid ramps for engaging pan ramps on the pan. The locking device is mounted to move along the wall of the pan in an inter-ramp zone so that the locking device has a locking position flush against a lateral edge of a pan ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Chameroy, Eric Christian Jacques Rhetat, Eric Laurent Baraille
  • Cooking utensil with removable grip handle
    Patent number: 6393973
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cooking utensil comprising a bowl and a removable grip handle. The bowl comprises over at least part of its periphery a rim projecting outwards from the bowl side wall, at least an orifice for receiving the handle passing through the rim wall, while the handle end comprises an upper part limited by a stop and designed to be inserted from above the orifice up to the stop and a lower part designed to extend beneath the rim. The invention is particularly applicable to cake tins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventors: Lionel Velo, Michel Montgelard
  • Mixing accessory having flexible wires mounted in a crossed manner
    Patent number: 6394640
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cooking accessory (1) for a domestic or household electrical cooking appliance, designed to be used in a cooking vessel, comprising a operation element (2) and a work tool (8) mounted on the operation element (2). The invention is characterized in that the work tool consists of flexible wires (3) defining a cage capable of being deformed against a wall of the cooking vessel to match the shape of said wall. The flexible wires (3) are mounted in a crossed manner between the operation element (2) and a holding element (9). The invention also concerns a domestic or electrical household appliance comprising such an accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Astegno, Carole Tompa, Patrick Garrigues
  • Heating element on an aluminum substrate for household electric appliance
    Publication number: 20020053562
    Abstract: A heating element for a soleplate of an iron, composed of: a substrate constituted by a plate containing aluminum; an insulator covering one surface of the plate; and a heating circuit carried by the insulator, wherein the insulator includes an anodized oxide layer having a thickness between 10 and 200 microns and resistant to abrupt temperature variations of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Pascal Cuillery, Jean-Louis Compeau
  • Non-stick coating with improved scratch resistance
    Patent number: 6382454
    Abstract: A non-stick coating with improved scratch resistance comprises an undercoat applied to a substrate, coated with a primary coat comprising a fluorocarbon resin and one or more fluorocarbon resin-based outer coats, characterized in that the undercoat is exclusively constituted by the polymer oxy-1,4-phenylene-oxy-1,4-phenylene-carbonyl-1,4-phenylene, known as PEEK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: SEB SA
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Buffard, Michel Fontaine, Claudine Gardaz
  • Fryer
    Patent number: D463711
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Luc Josancy
  • Steamer
    Patent number: D463712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Luc Josancy
  • Fryer
    Patent number: D465125
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Christophe Chedal Anglay
  • Toaster
    Patent number: D473094
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: SEB
    Inventor: Daniel Aeshbacher