IP Library Granted Patent US 7,309,846
Granted Patent B2
US 7,309,846 · App. 10/546,788 · Granted Dec 18, 2007

Method for operating a baking oven

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Patent No.
US 7,309,846
App. No.
10/546,788
Granted
Dec 18, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A baking oven and a method of operating the baking oven. The baking oven including a thermally insulated muffle, a circulating fan arranged inside of a fan compartment in the muffle, a least one heating device outside of the fan compartment and adjacent the walls of the muffle. The baking oven further including a control device for switching the heating device and circulating fan off and on, in accordance with a pre-determined temperature/time profile during the operation of the baking oven. The operation of the baking oven compensates for the difference in temperature between a temperature sensor adjacent a wall of the baking oven and the center of the muffle.

Claims (19)

1. A method for operating a baking oven provided with a closable, thermally insulated muffle, comprising:

a circulating fan arranged inside a fan compartment formed in the muffle;

at least one heating element arranged close to the walls of said muffle outside said fan compartment;

a control device for switching on and off said heating element and said circulating fan according to a pre-determined temperature/time profile during operation of the baking oven;

said operation including a pre-heating phase ( 0 -t 3 ) and a continuous-heating phase (t 3 -tx);

continuously switching on said heating element during said pre-heating phase ( 0 -t 3 ); and

temporarily switching on said circulating fan according to a time profile which is at least partially dependent on said pre-determined switching-off temperature of said heating element at the end of said pre-heating phase and which ends at a time before the end of said pre-heating phase.

2. The method according to claim 1 including determining said time profile by the level of the switching-on temperature and/or the operating mode and arrangement of said heating element.

3. The method according to claim 1 including determining said time profile by the temperature gradient of the respective pre-heating profile which depends on the selected desired switching-off temperature.

4. The method according to claim 1 including switching said circulating fan on briefly at least twice during said pre-heating phase ( 0 -t 3 ).

5. The method according to claim 1 including switching said circulating fan on during said pre-heating phase ( 0 -t 3 ) at least once at a time which depends on at least one of the level of said switching-off temperature and said operating mode and arrangement of said one heating element and including switching said circulating fan on at least once more at a time which depends on the temperature gradient of the respective pre-heating profile.

6. A baking oven, comprising:

a thermally insulated, closable muffle;

a fan compartment including a circulating fan and at least one thermal heating element provided close to the muffle walls outside said fan compartment;

a control device;

a temperature sensor located outside a treatment center of said muffle coupled to said control device;

said control device operated such that said circulating fan is temporarily switched on according to a time profile which depends at least partially on a pre-determined switching-off temperature of said heating element at the end of a pre-heating phase (t 3 ) during a pre-heating phase ( 0 -t 3 ) of said muffle preceding a continuous-heating phase (t 3 -tx) of said muffle and said control device determines said time profile by the temperature gradient of the respective pre-heating profile which depends on the selected desired switching-off temperature.

7. The baking oven according to claim 6 , including said control device determines said time profile by the level of at least one of the switching-on temperature and the operating mode and arrangement of said heating element.

8. The baking oven according to claim 6 , including said control device switching said circulating fan on during said pre-heating phase ( 0 -t 3 ) at least once at a time which depends on at least one of the level of said switching-off temperature and said operating mode and arrangement of said one heating element and including said control device switching said circulating fan on at least once more at a time which depends on the temperature gradient of the respective pre-heating profile.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO REMOVE USSN 14373413; 29120436 AND 29429277 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 035624 FRAME: 0784. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jun 19, 2015
From: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
To: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
Reel/Frame 036000/0848 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 11, 2015
From: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
To: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
Reel/Frame 035624/0784 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 24, 2005
From: HABERKAMM, RAMONA; KELLER, MARTIN
To: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
Reel/Frame 017688/0689 →