Patents by Inventor Michael Sickert

Michael Sickert 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: 20250072644
    Abstract: A juicing module for cooperating with a preparation vessel with at least one rotatable tool holder, having at least one drive interface and at least one juicer tool, wherein the juicer tool is connectable to the drive interface so that a rotation of at least a part of the juicer tool can be effected with a rotation of the drive interface. The juicer tool has at least one guide body and at least one sieve unit, in that a movement between guide body and sieve unit can be effected with a rotation of the drive interface, and in that the guide body and the sieve unit are designed/arranged such that, with a relative movement between guide body and sieve unit, a foodstuff to be juiced can be conveyed into a tapering gap between the guide body and sieve unit in order to bring about a pressing force on the foodstuff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Marvin Buschkühle, Michael Sickert, Andreas Heynen, Ingo Ehring
  • Patent number: 12042089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Büttner, Hendrik Koetz, Marcelo Caballero, Stefan Rest, Michael Sickert
  • Publication number: 20230029428
    Abstract: A potato peeling disc for peeling potatoes has a central opening formed by an inner contour of the potato peeling disc. A surface of the potato peeling disc comprises a plurality of teeth. The teeth have an orientation such that potatoes are peeled by the teeth by rotating the potato peeling disc in a first direction of rotation about a central axis which is coaxial with the central opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias Thiele, Svenja Stolze, Andreas Heynen, Felix Thies, Michael Sickert, Kevin Schmitz, Sebastian Jansen, Lukas Irnich, Malte Becker, Maximilian Klodt, Lars Müller-Tönissen
  • Publication number: 20230024102
    Abstract: A method for peeling potatoes with a food processor and a food processor which comprises for food preparation a detachable food preparation vessel, a heating element for heating a food in the food preparation vessel and a rotatable tool for mixing or chopping the food in the food preparation vessel. The method includes attaching a potato peeling disc having an abrasive structure on its surface from above to the tool which is located centrally at a bottom of the food preparation vessel to establish a manually releasable, rotationally coupled connection such that in operation the potato peeling disc rotates at the same rotational speed as the tool; addition of potatoes into the food preparation vessel from above onto the potato peeling disc; motorized rotation of the tool in a first direction of rotation and peeling of the potatoes with the potato peeling disc inside the food preparation vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias Thiele, Svenja Stolze, Andreas Merta, Andreas Heynen, Felix Thies, Michael Sickert, Kevin Schmitz, Sebastian Jansen, Lukas Irnich, Malte Becker, Maximilian Klodt, Lars Müller-Tönissen
  • Publication number: 20230016027
    Abstract: A cutting disc configured to chop food products by rotating about an axis. There are cutting elements which are located on a first side of the cutting disc and which can chop food products by rotating the cutting disc in a first direction of rotation and which are arranged one behind the other when viewed in the first direction of rotation. The cutting elements arranged one behind the other are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Dewey, Ingo Ehring, Andreas Heynen, Kai Landsecker, Michael Sickert
  • Patent number: 11311142
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a food processor for preparing a food in a pot. The food processor comprises the pot, a heating element for heating the pot or a food in the pot, and a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature TSUR, TMED of the pot or a food in the pot. The food processor comprises a monitoring device which is configured such that the monitoring device can detect an exceeding of a boiling point SP of a food in the pot on the basis of a temperature measurement value TNTC(k) of the temperature sensor and an electrical measurement value u(k), which depends on an energy supply to the heating element. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a process and a computer program product. A food processor with boiling point detection can thus be made available with particularly low production effort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventors: Andrej Mosebach, Wenjie Yan, Sebastian Tietz, Stefan Kraut-Reinkober, Michael Sickert
  • Patent number: 11000150
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for at least partially closing an opening (5) of a cooking vessel (2), having a support element (11) which can be brought to rest on an opening edge (6) of the opening (5) of the cooking vessel (2), and a plug-in element (12) which can be inserted at least partially through the opening (5), characterized in that the plug-in element (12) has a locking means (13) which can be brought into a locking position (I) in which the locking means (13) interacts with the opening edge (6), so that pulling out (205) of the plug-in element (12) is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Thies, Matthias Varnhorst, Jutta Schomacher, Michael Sickert
  • Publication number: 20200305639
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a food processor for preparing a food in a pot. The food processor comprises the pot, a heating element for heating the pot or a food in the pot, and a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature TSUR, TMED of the pot or a food in the pot. The food processor comprises a monitoring device which is configured such that the monitoring device can detect an exceeding of a boiling point SP of a food in the pot on the basis of a temperature measurement value TNTC(k) of the temperature sensor and an electrical measurement value u(k), which depends on an energy supply to the heating element. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a process and a computer program product. A food processor with boiling point detection can thus be made available with particularly low production effort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Andrej Mosebach, Wenjie Yan, Sebastian Tietz, Stefan Kraut-Reinkober, Michael Sickert
  • Publication number: 20200170447
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Büttner, Hendrik Koetz, Marcelo Caballero, Stefan Rest, Michael Sickert
  • Publication number: 20200154942
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Büttner, Hendrik Koetz, Michael Sickert, Stefan Rest, Marcelo Caballero
  • Publication number: 20190239681
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for at least partially closing an opening (5) of a cooking vessel (2), having a support element (11) which can be brought to rest on an opening edge (6) of the opening (5) of the cooking vessel (2), and a plug-in element (12) which can be inserted at least partially through the opening (5), characterized in that the plug-in element (12) has a locking means (13) which can be brought into a locking position (I) in which the locking means (13) interacts with the opening edge (6), so that pulling out (205) of the plug-in element (12) is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Felix Thies, Matthias Varnhorst, Jutta Schomacher, Michael Sickert
  • Publication number: 20180317713
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a food processor (1) with a base unit (2) having an electric motor and a preparation vessel (3) that can be arranged on a vessel retainer of the base unit (2), wherein the vessel retainer has allocated to it a weighing apparatus (4), which records the weight of the preparation vessel (3), wherein a calculating means of the food processor (1) determines a weight from a measured value measured by the weighing apparatus (4). In order to advantageously use the weighing apparatus (4) to recognize a current state of the food processor (1), it is proposed that the calculating means ascertain a time weight gradient based on at least two weights determined at different times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan HILGERS, Maximilian KOENNINGS, Wenjie YAN, Maria RESENDE, Michael SICKERT
  • Publication number: 20180213977
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing a preparation item (2) by means of an electrically operated food processor (1), wherein a user of the food processor (1) introduces a preparation item (2) into a preparation vessel (3) of the food processor (1), and transmits preparation instructions to a control device of the of the food processor (1) via a touchscreen (4), and wherein the food processor (1), depending on the preparation instructions, automatically performs a preparation step and/or adjusts preparation parameters for preparing the preparation item (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventor: Michael SICKERT
  • Publication number: 20150007923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for joining plastic-metal hybrid components, in which a metal component (3) is heated up in a heating stage and a plastic component (9) is brought into contact with the heated metal component (3) in a joining stage and joined to the metal component (3) by means of melting in the contact area, wherein in the heating stage the metal component (3) is heated up to a temperature higher than a defined joining temperature, said metal component is cooled down in a subsequent cooling stage in which the temperature of the metal component (3) is recorded by means of at least one temperature measuring device and the joining stage is performed when the defined joining temperature has been reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Sickert, Dustin Flock, Viktor Mamuschkin