Patents by Inventor Carlos FRANCO GUTIERREZ

Carlos FRANCO GUTIERREZ has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240099507
    Abstract: A food preparation system includes a control unit designed to guide through a process step of a process and to initiate, during guidance through the process, a machine-user interaction which is independent of the guidance through the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, Maria Parra Borderías, Agostina Rodriguez Larrosa, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Publication number: 20240102662
    Abstract: A food preparation system includes a control unit which is designed to guide through a process step of a process, which is in the form of a recipe and comprises the process step in the form of a recipe step. The control unit is further designed to guide at least temporarily simultaneously to the process step at least one further process step, which is in the form of a recipe step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, Maria Parra Borderías
  • Publication number: 20230213205
    Abstract: A household appliance apparatus includes a hyperspectral image capture unit configured to capture in an operating state a state of an object in an image capture region, and a control unit configured to ascertain an item of information in the operating state based on the state of the one object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, Maria Parra Borderías
  • Publication number: 20220151033
    Abstract: A food preparation system includes a food treatment unit having a food treatment function, a functional unit having an auxiliary function associated with the food treatment function, and a control unit provided to cause execution of a recipe and to control the food treatment function and the auxiliary function in an open-loop and/or closed-loop manner when guided by the recipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, David Paesa Garcia, Maria Parra Borderías
  • Publication number: 20220090795
    Abstract: A household appliance device includes a control unit configured to output during performance of an appliance function a suggestion relating to an appliance function parameter assigned to the appliance function, with the control unit configured to take into account a history for the suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, Maria Parra Borderías, Agostina Rodriguez Larrosa, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Publication number: 20210259065
    Abstract: A cooking device includes an information unit having an information storage unit for storing an intrinsic placement unit characteristic of a placement unit which is placeable on a cooking surface so as to be heatable. The information unit is arranged on the placement unit outside of a heating region of the placement unit for communication with a communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, David Paesa Garcia, Maria Parra Borderías, Agostina Rodriguez Larrosa, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Patent number: 10638552
    Abstract: A stovetop device includes a heating area adapted to heat cookware placed thereon and/or food to be cooked thereon, and a control unit configured to operate at least one subarea of the heating area in at least one operating state as at least one target temperature burner and to assign different target temperatures to different positions of the at least one target temperature burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, David Paesa García, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Patent number: 10448461
    Abstract: In a method for operating a cooktop, a process of removal and placement of a cookware element with respect to a starting position and an end position is detectable by a detection arrangement. A control unit forms a heating zone to match a detected cookware element. The process can be independently associated by the control unit in one of two ways, a first way in which the process involves a movement of cookware element from the starting position into the end position and a movement of the heating zone into an area of the end position, with a target temperature, set by a user interface, being carried over to the area of the end position, a second way in which the process involves removal of cookware element from the starting position and placement of another cookware element in the end position, with a target temperature set to a default value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, David Paesa García, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Publication number: 20180063893
    Abstract: A generic hob device having improved characteristics with regard to high operating convenience includes an output unit and a control unit. The hob device outputs by the output unit a catalogue of recipes for selection, and depending on an operating input, the hob device leads an operator through a selected recipe by the output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, Silvia Monfort Soler, David Paesa Garcia, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Publication number: 20170181228
    Abstract: A stovetop device includes a heating area adapted to heat cookware placed thereon and/or food to be cooked thereon, and a control unit configured to operate at least one subarea of the heating area in at least one operating state as at least one target temperature burner and to assign different target temperatures to different positions of the at least one target temperature burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Carlos Franco Gutierrez, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, David Paesa García, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Publication number: 20170055318
    Abstract: In a method for operating a cooktop, a process of removal and placement of a cookware element with respect to a starting position and an end position is detectable by a detection arrangement. A control unit forms a heating zone to match a detected cookware element. The process can be independently associated by the control unit in one of two ways, a first way in which the process involves a movement of cookware element from the starting position into the end position and a movement of the heating zone into an area of the end position, with a target temperature, set by a user interface, being carried over to the area of the end position, a second way in which the process involves removal of cookware element from the starting position and placement of another cookware element in the end position, with a target temperature set to a default value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Carlos FRANCO GUTIERREZ, Teresa Del Carmen MARZO ALVAREZ, David PAESA GARCÍA, Beatriz VILLANUEVA VALERO