Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Beifuss

Wolfgang Beifuss 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).

  • Patent number: 11943860
    Abstract: A system includes a core temperature probe and a microwave cooking device. The core temperature probe includes a temperature sensor to determine a temperature information, a coaxial line including a lambda/4 line resonance element adjusted to a microwave frequency, and a signal transmission antenna connected to the temperature sensor via the coaxial line and adapted to emit the temperature information at a signal transmission frequency that differs from the microwave frequency. The system is hereby constructed to transmit a signal at the signal transmission frequency wirelessly between the signal transmission antenna of the core temperature probe and a signal transmission antenna of the microwave cooking appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Manfred Steinbacher
  • Publication number: 20230116606
    Abstract: A system includes a core temperature probe and a microwave cooking device. The core temperature probe includes a temperature sensor to determine a temperature information, a coaxial line including a lambda/4 line resonance element adjusted to a microwave frequency, and a signal transmission antenna connected to the temperature sensor via the coaxial line and adapted to emit the temperature information at a signal transmission frequency that differs from the microwave frequency. The system is hereby constructed to transmit a signal at the signal transmission frequency wirelessly between the signal transmission antenna of the core temperature probe and a signal transmission antenna of the microwave cooking appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Manfred Steinbacher
  • Patent number: 11582841
    Abstract: A system includes a core temperature probe and a microwave cooking device. The core temperature probe includes a temperature sensor to determine a temperature information, a coaxial line including a lambda/4 line resonance element adjusted to a microwave frequency, and a signal transmission antenna connected to the temperature sensor via the coaxial line and adapted to emit the temperature information at a signal transmission frequency that differs from the microwave frequency. The system is hereby constructed to transmit a signal at the signal transmission frequency wirelessly between the signal transmission antenna of the core temperature probe and a signal transmission antenna of the microwave cooking appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Manfred Steinbacher
  • Patent number: 10559302
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes a user interface for a user to input commands, a camera for taking an image of an operating area from which the user interface can be operated by the user, a speech recognition device for detecting a speech command, and a control device configured to determine a level of security depending on the image that was taken by the camera and to execute the speech command detected by the speech recognition device depending on the level of security that has been determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Uwe Has
  • Publication number: 20190110340
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber for cooking a product to be cooked. An air-guiding plate is arranged in the cooking chamber and coupled by a coupling device to a transmitter/receiver unit which transmits and/or receives a high frequency signal. The air-guiding plate is configured as a planar antenna for transmitting the high frequency signal between the coupling device and a sensor that can be arranged in the cooking chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen Bauer, Wolfgang Beifuss, Harald Pfersch, Manfred Steinbacher, Martin Thalheimer
  • Publication number: 20190029083
    Abstract: A system includes a core temperature probe and a microwave cooking device. The core temperature probe includes a temperature sensor to determine a temperature information, a coaxial line including a lambda/4 line resonance element adjusted to a microwave frequency, and a signal transmission antenna connected to the temperature sensor via the coaxial line and adapted to emit the temperature information at a signal transmission frequency that differs from the microwave frequency. The system is hereby constructed to transmit a signal at the signal transmission frequency wirelessly between the signal transmission antenna of the core temperature probe and a signal transmission antenna of the microwave cooking appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Manfred Steinbacher
  • Patent number: 10151494
    Abstract: A hob has a first communications interface which is designed to receive control commands from a portable multimedia device by means of a first radio link. The hob additionally has a second communications interface, which is designed to communicate with the multimedia device via a second radio link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Uwe Has, Matthias Jahner
  • Patent number: 10117294
    Abstract: A household appliance constructed in the form of a microwave appliance includes a food treatment chamber having a loading opening which is closeable by a door, with the food treatment chamber being exposable to microwaves. A camera is provided to observe the food treatment chamber through a viewing window. Received in the viewing window is a shielding plate which includes a number of holes. The camera is fastened to holes in the shielding plate and directed onto the shielding plate such that at least one hole is in a field of view of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Uwe Has
  • Publication number: 20180130466
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes a user interface for a user to input commands, a camera for taking an image of an operating area from which the user interface can be operated by the user, a speech recognition device for detecting a speech command, and a control device configured to determine a level of security depending on the image that was taken by the camera and to execute the speech command detected by the speech recognition device depending on the level of security that has been determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: BSH HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Uwe Has
  • Publication number: 20170188416
    Abstract: A household appliance constructed in the form of a microwave appliance includes a food treatment chamber having a loading opening which is closeable by a door, with the food treatment chamber being exposable to microwaves. A camera is provided to observe the food treatment chamber through a viewing window. Received in the viewing window is a shielding plate which includes a number of holes. The camera is fastened to holes in the shielding plate and directed onto the shielding plate such that at least one hole is in a field of view of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Uwe Has
  • Publication number: 20150042453
    Abstract: A hob has a first communications interface which is designed to receive control commands from a portable multimedia device by means of a first radio link. The hob additionally has a second communications interface, which is designed to communicate with the multimedia device via a second radio link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Uwe Has, Matthias Jahner
  • Patent number: 4882462
    Abstract: A control apparatus for heating, defrosting and/or cooking foods to be heat-treated by exposure to microwave energy at a given location inside a closed cooking chamber includes a microwave generator beaming microwave energy into the cooking chamber, and a sensor detecting the state of the food and controlling the energy beamed into the cooking chamber. The sensor is disposed in the cooking chamber filled with microwave energy between the microwave generator and the given location for food exposed to microwave energy, for detecting a value for microwave energy potential and controlling the output of the microwave generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Julius Husslein, Helmut Hess, Wolfgang Beifuss
  • Patent number: 4589086
    Abstract: A data processing system having an arithmetic unit is designed for a multiplication of n-place numbers in 2's complement according to the Booth algorithm, and for division of unsigned numerals. A 2n-stage shift register is connected over a logical control circuit to the operation code inputs of an ALU. The control circuit automatically forms instruction code signals to the ALU as a function of informational bits derived from the shift register, whereas other operation code input signals are directly connected to the operation code inputs. The control circuit is a sequential circuit having a multiplexer for the selective through-connection of the multiplication code signals, the division code signals, or other operation code signals to the operation code inputs of the ALU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Bernd Haussmann, Michael Pomper, Ewald Soutschek
  • Patent number: 4392199
    Abstract: A Fault-tolerant computer architecture employs a plurality of microcomputers connected in a partially meshed ring. Three device controllers are connected to any of the microcomputers by means of a passive switch, and a fault in data transmission relative to one microcomputer is resolved by a two-out-of-three decision. A failure of one microcomputer is manifested by an adjacent microcomputer, so that the down microcomputer is omitted from furthwr task assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst Schmitter, Paul Birzele, Klaus Buchmann, Gerhard Geitz, Bernhard Will, Wolfgang Beifuss
  • Patent number: 4388683
    Abstract: In a data transmitting/receiving device having parallel/serial and serial/parallel character conversion, particularly for data exchange between communicating data processing systems, and being arranged between a local data processing system and a data modem terminating a data communication line for the purpose of controlling data transmission and/or reception procedures and containing a procedure store, and in which a random access storage is provided as a data buffer for intercepting data jams is provided along with an interrupt control for interrupting processing operations in a microprocessor in respect of higher processing priority, and in which a timer is provided for setting optimum transmission speed, first and second modem connection lines are provided and data messages to be transmitted are converted bit-oriented or character-oriented by the microprocessor from data groups supplied thereto by means of corresponding input switching commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Beifuss, Paul Birzele, Gerhard Geitz