Patents by Inventor Hendrik Koetz
Hendrik Koetz 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).
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Patent number: 12042089Abstract: In order to improve and make more reliable the preparation of food by several kitchen appliances, the present invention proposes a system and a method. The system for preparing foodstuffs comprises a first kitchen appliance, in particular a cook mixer, a second kitchen appliance and a control unit, the first kitchen appliance having at least one detection means for detecting at least one piece of information about the state of a foodstuff, wherein the first kitchen appliance is connected to the control unit via a first communication connection, and wherein the further kitchen appliance is connected to the control unit via a second communication connection, and is characterized in that the control unit is configured to compare the at least one piece of detected information about the state of the foodstuff with a preparation instruction and in that the control unit is configured to control the further kitchen appliance as a function of the result of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Christian Büttner, Hendrik Koetz, Marcelo Caballero, Stefan Rest, Michael Sickert
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Patent number: 11530984Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a spectrometer comprising a spectral decomposition device and a radiation detector. These components are configured such that the spectral decomposition device can break up an incident electromagnetic measuring radiation into components in a wavelength-dependent manner. The radiation detector can measure the intensity of at least one of these components. The spectrometer is configured such that the spectrometer transmits analysis information from the analysis of a food or of a food component to a food preparation device and/or outputs it to the user via an output device. The present disclosure further relates to a system including a control device as well as to a method. In this way, a reproducible cooking result as well as an output of the nutritional values and the actual energy content of the prepared food can be made possible.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Inventors: Robert Frielinghaus, Hendrik Koetz
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System for the preparation of at least one food product and method for operating the relevant system
Patent number: 11460192Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the preparation of at least one food product (2) as well as a method for the same, wherein the system (1, 50) comprises a cooking chamber (3), in which the food product (2) can be prepared.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz -
Patent number: 11265516Abstract: A system consisting of a vehicle which is autarchically mobile in the outdoor area on a property and a surveillance module which can be attached to the vehicle, wherein the surveillance module has surveillance sensors for carrying out surveillance of the property. The surveillance module can be replaced with a work module. Plant care activities can be performed with the work module.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Georg Hackert, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Hendrik Koetz, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Robin Dulinski
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Patent number: 11122930Abstract: The invention concerns a cooking management method (100) for planning a cooking process (200) of a kitchen machine (1) comprising the following steps: determining (105) an entertainment program (201) of an entertainment apparatus (2); determining (106) a planning interval (202) in which at least one user of the kitchen machine (1) is connected to the entertainment machine (2) to enjoy the entertainment program (201). The invention also concerns a food processor (1) and a system for carrying out a cooking operation (200).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Hendrik Koetz, Stefan Kraut-Reinkober, Andrej Mosebach, Mirco Pieper, Anton Reindl, Christiane Stach, Wenjie Yan, Sarah Werhahn
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Patent number: 11067498Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a food preparation device. The device comprises a food preparation space, a heating element for heating a food in the food preparation space, and/or a tool for blending and/or chopping a food in the food preparation space. The device further comprises a spectrometer for analyzing a food associated with the device. The present disclosure further relates to a method for analyzing a food. In this way, a reproducible cooking result as well as an output of the nutritional values and the actual energy content of prepared food can be made possible.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Inventors: Robert Frielinghaus, Hendrik Koetz
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Patent number: 11013073Abstract: The invention relates to a system (100) for preparing at least one food (1, 2, 3) having a cooking chamber (10), in which the food (1, 2, 3) can be prepared, an energy unit (20), in order to carry out an supplying of electromagnetic energy into the cooking chamber (10) specific to the at least one food (1, 2, 3) in dependence on cooking information (4, 5, 6) of the at least one food (1, 2, 3), whereby the at least one food (1, 2, 3) can be brought into an edible state, wherein the energy unit (20) has at least two transmission antennae (30, 31, 32, 33), which are spaced apart from each other, can be actuated by at least one high frequency signal encoder of the system (100), and are designed to emit energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range into the cooking chamber (10) based on said actuation.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Patent number: 10953985Abstract: A sensor module is assigned to a vehicle that can be displaced in a terrain or designed for being positioned in the terrain. The sensor module has a sensor system with sensors that acquire sensor data in a contactless fashion. The sensors are designed for detecting the spatial extent of the plant at a location in the terrain. The sensor data makes it possible to determine whether the plant should be pruned. To this end, the sensor data is evaluated by utilizing a knowledge database.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Georg Hackert, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Hendrik Koetz, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Robin Dulinski
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Patent number: 10932613Abstract: An electrically operated food processor for preparing a cooked product, which exhibits a basic unit, a vessel with an agitator that can be inserted into the basic unit, a cooking container that sits on the vessel, a heating device allocated to the vessel, a temperature sensor, a transceiver device for communicating with the temperature sensor, and an evaluator for evaluating the measurement data received from the temperature sensor. In order to provide an electric food processor with an alternative connection between the temperature sensor and evaluator, the temperature sensor can be a surface acoustic wave sensor (SAW sensor).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Patent number: 10932614Abstract: An electrically operated food processor for preparing a cooked product, which exhibits a basic unit, a vessel with an agitator that can be inserted into the basic unit, a cooking container that sits on the vessel, a heating device allocated to the vessel, a temperature sensor, a transceiver device for communicating with the temperature sensor, and an evaluator for evaluating the measurement data received from the temperature sensor. In order to provide an electric food processor with an alternative connection between the temperature sensor and evaluator, the temperature sensor can be a surface acoustic wave sensor (SAW sensor).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Patent number: 10883838Abstract: A system has at least two self-traveling floor treatment apparatuses, wherein each of the floor treatment apparatuses features a navigation and self-localization device that is designed for generating an environment map based on environment data of the environment of the floor treatment apparatus, which is recorded by means of a detection device. In order to realize an advantageous cooperation between the floor treatment apparatuses, it is proposed that a common memory unit for storing environment maps and a computing unit are assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses, wherein the computing unit is designed for comparing an environment map of a first floor treatment apparatus with an environment map of a second floor treatment apparatus and/or with an environment map stored in the common memory unit and for specifying which of the environment maps is stored in the common memory unit and/or in a local memory of a floor treatment apparatus based on a defined selection criterion.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Georg Hackert, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Hendrik Koetz, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Robin Dulinski
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Patent number: 10873995Abstract: The invention relates to a system (100) for preparing at least one food product (1), comprising: a cooking chamber (10), in which at least one preparation area (5) is provided, wherein the at least one food product (1) can be positioned and prepared at the least one preparation area (5), at least one antenna arrangement (30) for supplying energy of electromagnetic energy (80) into the cooking chamber (10), whereby the at least one food product (1) can be heated, one transmission device (40) for operating the antenna arrangement (30), wherein at least one antenna (31) of the antenna arrangement (30) is oriented depending on the preparation area (5) and is operable according to at least one operation mode by the transmission device (40), so that a performance-optimized temperature zone distribution for heating the food product (1) can be generated.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Patent number: 10842333Abstract: A system for cleaning a floor by means of at least one cleaning robot, which cleaning robot comprises control means for controlling the cleaning robot and communication means for sensing at least one event having increased soiling emergence of at least part of the floor, wherein the control means set the intensity of the use of the cleaning robot for cleaning at least part of the floor in accordance with the intensity of at least one event having increased soiling emergence. The system solves the technical problem of making a system and a method for cleaning a floor by means of a cleaning robot more flexible and enabling improved cleaning results. The system further relates to a method for cleaning a floor.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Patent number: 10694912Abstract: A system has at least two floor treatment apparatuses for treating a surface in an automatically controlled fashion based on defined adjustment parameters of the floor treatment apparatus, wherein each of the floor treatment apparatuses features at least one detection device for detecting at least one detection parameter of the floor treatment apparatus and/or of an environment of the floor treatment apparatus. In order to enhance a system of this type in such a way that the floor treatment apparatuses advantageously cooperate and support one another, the system features a common database that is assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses. Detection parameters of at least two floor treatment apparatuses are stored in the database in association with the adjustment parameters of the respective floor treatment apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GMBHInventors: Georg Hackert, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Hendrik Koetz, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Robin Dulinski
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Patent number: 10682016Abstract: An electrically operated food processor with a mixing bowl and a mixer in the mixing bowl is provided with a camera, in particular an electronic camera, which is potentially directed towards the user of the food processor, and with stored gesture recognition software, as well as a gesture data bank, it being possible to use gesture recognition to cause the food processor to carry out a routine task.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Publication number: 20200170447Abstract: In order to improve and make more reliable the preparation of food by several kitchen appliances, the present invention proposes a system and a method. The system for preparing foodstuffs comprises a first kitchen appliance, in particular a cook mixer, a second kitchen appliance and a control unit, the first kitchen appliance having at least one detection means for detecting at least one piece of information about the state of a foodstuff, wherein the first kitchen appliance is connected to the control unit via a first communication connection, and wherein the further kitchen appliance is connected to the control unit via a second communication connection, and is characterized in that the control unit is configured to compare the at least one piece of detected information about the state of the foodstuff with a preparation instruction and in that the control unit is configured to control the further kitchen appliance as a function of the result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Christian Büttner, Hendrik Koetz, Marcelo Caballero, Stefan Rest, Michael Sickert
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Publication number: 20200154942Abstract: To improve food preparation and make it more reliable, this invention proposes a food preparation system comprising a first kitchen appliance, a second kitchen appliance and a control unit, the first kitchen appliance comprising at least one detection means for detecting at least one piece of information relating to a property of a food, wherein the control unit is connected via a first communication connection to the first kitchen appliance, and wherein the control unit is connected to the second kitchen appliance via a second communication connection, characterized in that the control unit is configured to select at least one preparation instruction in dependence on the at least one piece of detected information, and in that the second kitchen appliance is configured to perform a preparation operation in accordance with the at least one selected preparation instruction. Furthermore, the present invention provides a corresponding method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Christian Büttner, Hendrik Koetz, Michael Sickert, Stefan Rest, Marcelo Caballero
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Patent number: 10602900Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled floor treatment device (1), in particular to a cleaning robot, with a floor treatment element (2), at least two motorized wheels (3, 4) and a detection device for detecting a floor type of a surface to be treated. In order to easily achieve an optimal detection of the floor type, it is proposed that the detection device have a frictional resistance element (6), which contacts the surface during a movement in such a way that a resultant force outside of a reference axis (7) acts on the floor treatment device (1), wherein the reference axis (7) is oriented parallel to a main direction of movement (8) of the floor treatment device (1) prescribed by the orientation of the wheels (3, 4), and is aligned centrally between the wheels (3, 4) in relation to a direction perpendicular to the reference axis (7). Further proposed is a method for operating a self-propelled floor treatment device (1).Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Hendrik Koetz, Pia Hahn
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Patent number: 10585408Abstract: A household appliance in the form of a food processor has a controller that controls the preparation of a meal according to a sequence of prescribed steps that includes comminuting, mixing or heating the meal or ingredients. The controller is designed and set up to output a control command for controlling an external cleaning device depending on a progress of the sequence of steps. The control command to the external device includes a cleaning instruction for the external device to effect cleaning in an area where the household appliance is located.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Georg Hackert, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Hendrik Koetz, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Robin Dulinski
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Patent number: 10562177Abstract: A system has at least two floor processing fixtures of one or several automatically moving floor processing devices for the automatically controlled processing of a surface. In order to further develop such a system in particular with the aim of having the floor processing fixtures advantageously interact and support each other, the system has a shared database allocated to the floor processing fixtures, which is stored in an external memory designed separately from the floor processing device, and in which operational activities for the floor processing fixtures are planned according to defined rules, as well as a central computing device allocated to the database, which plans operational activities according to defined rules.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Georg Hackert, Martin Helmich, Lorenz Hillen, Christian Holz, Gerhard Isenberg, Hendrik Koetz, Andrej Mosebach, Roman Ortmann, Robin Dulinski