Pan Or Cup (e.g., A Drip Pan, Etc.) Patents (Class 219/455.11)
  • Patent number: 9400115
    Abstract: A top plate unit includes a top plate on which an object to be heated is placed, an underframe for holding the top plate placed on an upper surface thereof, the underframe being adapted to be placed on an upper surface of a kitchen counter in a manner in which a lower surface of the underframe is held in contact with the upper surface of the kitchen counter, and a decorative panel 6 for covering an upper portion of an outer peripheral edge of the top plate. The decorative panel has an inwardly bent portion that has been formed by bending an outer peripheral edge portion of the decorative panel inwardly toward a lower surface of the underframe to hold the outer peripheral edge of the underframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kuwamura
  • Patent number: 8916802
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a warming drawer housing having an interior chamber, and a warming drawer module in the interior chamber. The module includes a support plate, a glass heating element forming a floor surface of the module for receiving items to be warmed, a gasket strip covering an upper perimeter surface of the glass heating element, a frame disposed over the gasket strip and the upper perimeter surface, and a first electrical connection disposed adjacent to an edge of the frame. The frame includes a drip guard projecting outward from the edge of the frame and overhanging the first electrical connection to guide a liquid from a surface of the frame or the glass heating element away from the first electrical connection such that the liquid does not come into contact with the first electrical connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: William Bringe, Samuel Harward, Rose Marie Parker, Michael Rutherford
  • Patent number: 8794131
    Abstract: A grill with improved-configuration grease collecting box comprising feet, a pan mounted on the feet and a heating device on the backside of the pan, the feet form an opening to contain the grease collecting box, both sides of the opening have supports, the opening mounted a grease collecting box inside, and the grease collecting box mounted on the supports, said pan has grease outlet orifices on the top of grease collecting box. The grease collecting box of the present invention located below the pan, it does not occupy the additional space and uneasy to be turn overed by incaution, which add the security; Mounting the grease collecting box on the feet does not need any additional fitting device, and the simple configuration is advantageous to be carried; The grease collecting box being hidden in the feet make the appearance of the grill to be more aesthetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Tsann Kuen (China) Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qisheng Lai, Youming Yang
  • Publication number: 20120325799
    Abstract: An electric hot plate includes an electric roasting portion and a fume extraction portion coupled by a support rod, and the electric roasting portion includes a base, a control system installed on the base and coupled to an upper heating plate; and the fume extraction portion includes a plurality of fume extraction fans installed on a fume cover and coupled to the control system, and an oil filter portion. The electric hot plate features low power consumption and low electromagnetic radiation and can timely extract the fume produced in the roasting process to reduce the production of harmful toxic matters and protect the users' health, and the electric hot plate of the invention is applicable for indoor and outdoor usage including the use at home or in barbeque restaurants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: NENG BAO KANG ENTERPRISE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiu Liu
  • Patent number: 7472698
    Abstract: An energy saving reflector assembly for cook-top heating units. The reflector assembly features a device which concentrates heat on the bottom of a cooking vessel being heated and prevents heat from escaping laterally from under the vessel being heated. The device provides significant decreases in both cooking time and energy consumption. Embodiments for electric and gas cook-tops are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Inventor: Kevin J. Anibas
  • Patent number: 7227105
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus which prevents a top casing thereof from being heated by heat transmitted from an electric heater. The cooking apparatus having a grill part to cook food thereon, and a electric heater to cook the food, includes a grill housing having a main casing including an opening part coupled with the grill part, providing the electric heater thereon, and a top casing coupled with an upper side circumferential area of the main casing with the center to the opening part, and the top casing including a plurality of top casing units separately provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-deog Jang, Han-seong Kang, Yong-hyun Kwon, Chul Kim, Han-jun Sung, Dae-sung Han, Tae-euk Lee
  • Patent number: 7002110
    Abstract: An electric smokeless roaster capable of eliminating ducts installed on the inside and outside of a shop and almost eliminating the generation of harmful gases such as NOx, comprising an electric heater unit (2) installed on the upper part of a casing (1), a water pan (6) installed on the lower part of the heater unit (2), a grill (9) disposed above the heater unit (2), a table (7) installed on the upper surface of the casing (1) and having an opening at the portion thereof corresponding to the grill (9), a suction unit (10) installed around the grill (9) and having suction ports for sucking air around the grill (9), an electric dust collecting unit (30) installed in the casing (1) and dedusting air sucked from the sucking unit (10), and a deodorizer (50) installed in the casing (1) and decomposing odor components contained in the air dedusted by the electric dust collecting unit (30) and exhausting the decomposed odor components to the outside of the casing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignees: Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., Minematsu Electric Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Satou, Kazuyuki Hashimoto, Tomoki Kakitsuka
  • Patent number: 6734402
    Abstract: A cooking device includes two casings each having an inner portion, and a shelf disposed in the middle portion. A heating device is disposed and supported on the inner portions of the casings, and may either be the electrical heating members, or gas stoves, or furnaces, etc. The casings and the heating device may be assembled by the users when required, and may be disengaged from each other for allowing the cooking device to be easily stored and packaged. The casings each may include a chamber to receive boiled fluid material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Inventor: Yueh-Kung Chenglin
  • Patent number: 6399924
    Abstract: A cooktop hygiene device removably mountable to a cooktop for collecting food sputterings or spillings and preventing such sputterings or spillings from contaminating the cooktop comprises a plate-like structure, which can be flexible or rigid, having an upper surface adapted to receive the spillings or sputterings and a lower surface adapted to interface with the cooktop surface, and a plurality of openings on the plate-like structure to receive the heaters on the cooktop and to allow a user to place a cookware or utensil on the heaters. A fold facilitator is provided on the plate like structure to facilitate the folding of the device to fit into a dishwasher. A plurality of drip pans secured to the plate-like structure is provided for catching the food and liquid spillings or sputterings. The plurality of openings may be covered by heater covers to provide cooking zones on the plate-like structure to engage with the heaters and conduct heat from the heaters to cookware on the cooking zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Inventor: Edward Zhihua Cai
  • Publication number: 20010025843
    Abstract: A cooking appliance having a bowl portion and a hotplate portion whereby differing cooking modes can be simultaneously effected by the appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventor: John William McClean