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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Publication number: 20190277754Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Robert Frielinghaus, Hendrik Koetz
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Publication number: 20190277757Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Robert Frielinghaus, Hendrik Koetz
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Publication number: 20190261812Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Hendrik Koetz, Stefan Kraut-Reinkober, Andrej Mosebach, Mirco Pieper, Anton Reindl, Christiane Stach, Wenjie Yan, Sarah Werhahn
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Patent number: 10378966Abstract: A method for measuring a temperature inside a kitchen appliance, in particular a temperature of an item to be cooked, inside a kitchen appliance, includes: transmitting an electromagnetic excitation signal using a transmission-receiving device, receiving the excitation signal by a temperature sensor, which is arranged in the kitchen appliance, in particular in the item to be cooked, transmitting a temperature-dependent response signal by the temperature sensor, receiving the response signal by the transmission-receiving device, determining the current temperature by comparing the response signal to temperature-dependent reference signals. To also provide for an interaction between a plurality of kitchen appliances, the transmission-receiving device transmits the response signal or partial information of the response signal and/or the value of a current temperature, which is determined by the transmission-receiving device, to a control device of a further kitchen appliance or to an external processor.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Hendrik Koetz, Christopher Fricke, Stefan Hilgers, Maximilian Koennings, Arno Koch, Maria Resende, Georg Hackert
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Publication number: 20190141796Abstract: 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 older 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Publication number: 20190101434Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (1a; 1b; 1c; 1d; 1e) for preparing foods (100), comprising a housing (10) for receiving the food (100), a recognition device (20) for recognizing at least one food carrier (200) couplable with the system (1a; 1b; 1c; 1d; 1e), and thereby recognizing the weight of the food carrier (200), as well as a determining device (40) for determining the tare weight of the food based on the detected weight of the food carrier (200).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Publication number: 20190090685Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik KOETZ
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Publication number: 20190090686Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik KOETZ
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Publication number: 20190082918Abstract: The invention relates to a system for cleaning a floor by means of at least one cleaning robot (2), which cleaning robot comprises control means (50) for controlling the cleaning robot (2) and communication means (52, 54) for sensing at least one event having increased soiling emergence of at least part of the floor, wherein the control means (50) set the intensity of the use of the cleaning robot (2) 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 invention further relates to a method for cleaning a floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Hendrik Koetz
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SYSTEM FOR THE PREPARATION OF AT LEAST ONE FOOD PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE RELEVANT SYSTEM
Publication number: 20190086096Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: March 21, 2019Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik KOETZ -
Publication number: 20190069354Abstract: A device and a method for feeding power in the form of an electromagnetic alternating field, which is generated by a microwave transmitter, into a cooking chamber of a microwave oven, wherein the electromagnetic alternating field is transmitted in a power flow direction by a transmission device from the microwave transmitter to a plurality of feed points of the cooking chamber, wherein the transmission device has at least one waveguide and a coupling element, which is coupled to the waveguide, wherein the coupling element, which is embodied as power distributor, connects the microwave transmitter to a plurality of waveguides. The coupling element is a coupling pin, which has a plurality of arms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik KOETZ
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Publication number: 20190028675Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20190023396Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20190022854Abstract: A working device that can move self-sufficiently over terrain, which carries task-specific tools. The tools are allocated to different working modules. The different working modules can optionally be used by the working device. The working modules can be a watering tool, a cutting tool, a mowing tool, a sweeping tool, a fertilizer distributing tool or a soil treating tool. The plants are processed with the help of a planning aid which has a database. The planning aid is used to transmit task data to the working device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: 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: 10182680Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically operated food processor (1) for preparing a cooked product, which exhibits a basic unit (14), a vessel (2) with an agitator (18) that can be inserted into the basic unit (14), a heating device (9) allocated to the vessel (2), a temperature sensor (5), a transceiver device (12) for communicating with the temperature sensor (5), and an evaluator (13) for evaluating the measurement data received from the temperature sensor (5). In order to provide an electric food processor (1) with an alternative connection between the temperature sensor (5) and evaluator (13), it is proposed that the temperature sensor (5) be a surface acoustic wave sensor (SAW sensor).Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Hendrik Koetz
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Publication number: 20180360283Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20180361569Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20180364661Abstract: A household appliance has a controller for the preparation of a meal according to a sequence of prescribed steps. In order to enable an advantageous interaction with the device, the controller is designed and set up to output a control command for controlling an external device depending on a progress of the sequence of steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20180364052Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20180270915Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Hendrik Koetz