Patents by Inventor Katrin Lauterbach

Katrin Lauterbach 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: 20160088972
    Abstract: A method for providing cooking programs for at least one selectable product to be cooked, which can be cooked in at least two different charges in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance. Cooking processes conducted depending on charge-dependent parameters are replaced by cooking programs that depend solely on fixed parameters. A cooking program is assigned to each charge respectively. A cooking process is conducted as a function of at least one charge-dependent parameter at least once for each charge, with a caliber-dependent parameter determined by a core temperature of the product to be cooked being selected as the charge-dependent parameter. A cooking process that leads to a specific cooking result is selected for each charge, with the cooking result being determined by the core temperature of the product and a cooking program being stored for each selected cooking process after the charge-dependent parameter is replaced by a fixed parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Wiedemann, Torsten Brinkmann, Katrin Lauterbach, Anja Machowetz, Juergen Klasmeier, Thomas Schreiner, Simone Roesler, Judith Kling, Martin Heinrich
  • Publication number: 20130236615
    Abstract: A method for providing cooking programs for at least one selectable product to be cooked, which can be cooked in at least two different charges in a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance. Cooking processes conducted depending on charge-dependent parameters are replaced by cooking programs that depend solely on fixed parameters. One cooking program is assigned to each charge respectively. A cooking process is conducted as a function of at least one charge-dependent parameter at least once for each charge, with a caliber-dependent parameter determined by a core temperature of the product to be cooked being selected as the charge-dependent parameter. A cooking process that leads to a specific cooking result is selected for each charge, with the cooking result being determined by the core temperature of the product and a cooking program being stored for each selected cooking process after the charge-dependent parameter is replaced by a fixed parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: RATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Peter Wiedemann, Torsten Brinkmann, Katrin Lauterbach, Anja Machowetz, Jürgen Klasmeier
  • Publication number: 20080264269
    Abstract: A cooking appliance comprises at least one cooking compartment, at least one installation compartment, at least one gas sensor array for detecting the atmosphere within the cooking compartment, the atmosphere within the installation compartment, and/or the atmosphere surrounding the cooking appliance. The gas sensor array(s) have at least two separate, different individual sensors and/or at least one coherent sensor field including at least two different sensor segments. The cooking appliance additionally includes at least one storage unit for storing signals detected by the gas sensor array(s), at least one evaluation unit for processing the detected signals, at least one control unit for controlling cooking or cleaning processes, at least one first feed line for transporting the atmosphere from the cooking appliance to the gas sensor array(s), and at least one valve at the inlet and/or in the area of the first feed line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: RATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Roland Sterzel, Michael Greiner, Andrea Jurgens, Judith Imgram, Jurgen Klasmeier, Katrin Lauterbach, Kathrin Hildenbrand, Bruno Maas, Erwin Schuller
  • Patent number: 7409311
    Abstract: A method for cooking a cooking load includes at least two particularly individual items for cooking, the cooking state of which is characterized by at least two cooking state parameters, including a first cooking state parameter and a second cooking state parameter, in a cooking chamber with application of at least one measuring device for recording values of at least one property of at least one cooking load, for determining at least one of said cooking state parameters, which alters depending on the cooking process, whereby at least two of the items for cooking in the cooking load, differ in size, total surface area, volume, weight and/or diameter, in particular, mean diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Rational AG
    Inventors: Judith Imgram, Andrea Jürgens, Katrin Lauterbach, Jürgen Klasmeier, Michael Greiner, Roland Sterzel
  • Publication number: 20070288192
    Abstract: A method for cooking a cooking load, including at least two particularly individual items for cooking, the cooking state of which is characterized by at least two cooking state parameters, including a first cooking state parameter and a second cooking state parameter, in a cooking chamber with application of at least one measuring device for recording values of at least one property of at least one cooking load, for determining at least one of said cooking state parameters, which alters depending on the cooking process, whereby at least two of the items for cooking in the cooking load, differ in size, total surface area, volume, weight and/or diameter, in particular, mean diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: RATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Judith Imgram, Andrea Jurgens, Katrin Lauterbach, Jurgen Klasmeier, Michael Greiner, Roland Sterzel
  • Patent number: 7232978
    Abstract: A method for controlling a delta-T cooking process includes (a) selecting of a set core temperature KTs and a delta-T value for the food to be cooked, (b) introducing the food to be cooked into the cooking space at an initial core temperature KT0; (c) increasing the actual cooking space temperature GTa as a function of the actual core temperature KTa over the course of at least one first time interval in such a way that an essentially constant difference approximately on the order of magnitude of the delta-T value is maintained between GTa and KTa until KTa=KTs+A and thus corresponds to a maximum value GTa-r, where A is a temperature value smaller than delta-T; and finally (d) stepwise and/or continuously decreasing the actual cooking space temperature GTa during a second time interval to a final cooking space temperature of GTe=KTs+B, where B is a temperature value of 0?B<A, in such a way that, when GTa becomes essentially the same as GTe, KTa reaches KTs more-or-less simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Rational AG
    Inventors: Andrea Jürgens, Judith Imgram, Katrin Lauterbach, Kathrin Hildenbrand, Roland Sterzel, Michael Greiner, Jürgen Klasmeier
  • Publication number: 20060049187
    Abstract: A method for controlling a delta-T cooking process includes (a) selecting of a set core temperature KTs and a delta-T value for the food to be cooked, (b) introducing the food to be cooked into the cooking space at an initial core temperature KT0; (c) increasing the actual cooking space temperature GTa as a function of the actual core temperature KTa over the course of at least one first time interval in such a way that an essentially constant difference approximately on the order of magnitude of the delta-T value is maintained between GTa and KTa until KTa=KTs+A and thus corresponds to a maximum value GTa-r, where A is a temperature value smaller than delta-T; and finally (d) stepwise and/or continuously decreasing the actual cooking space temperature GTa during a second time interval to a final cooking space temperature of GTe=KTs+B, where B is a temperature value of 0?B<A, in such a way that, when GTa becomes essentially the same as GTe, KTa reaches KTs more-or-less simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: RATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Andrea Jurgens, Judith Imgram, Katrin Lauterbach, Kathrin Hildenbrand, Roland Sterzel, Michael Greiner, Jurgen Klasmeier