Cooking appliance with an extractor fan
View Patent ↗A cooking appliance including at least one heating unit for heating a cooking area and including at least one extractor fan. At least one parameter of the extractor fan can be controlled to different values by a control unit, regardless of the selected cooking mode. At least one parameter value is stored in an electronic storage unit.
1. A cooking appliance having at least one heating unit for heating a cooking area and including at least one extractor fan, comprising:
a control unit for regulating a switch-on time for said extractor fan from one of a plurality of different switch-on times depending upon a selected cooking mode; and
an electronic storage unit coupled to said control unit and having at least one of said switch-on times stored in said electronic storage unit.
2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , including said control unit formed at least partly monobloc with a second control unit to control said heating unit.
3. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , including said electronic storage unit formed at least partly monobloc with a second storage unit in which said at least one cooking mode value is stored.
4. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , including a humidity sensor coupled to said control unit, said extractor fan being controlled by a predetermined value detected by a humidity sensor.
5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4 , wherein said storage unit stores a plurality of switch-on time parameters with each switch-on time parameter being associated with a given cooking mode and each switch-on time parameter being a respective time interval associated with a respective cooking mode, the switching on of said extractor fan being effected upon the expiration of the respective time interval associated with a respective given cooking mode selected by a user, said humidity sensor is operable to sense humidity levels relative to the cooking area, and said control unit is operatively connected to said humidity sensor and, in connection with each given cooking mode, said control unit is operable, upon the sensing by said humidity sensor of a humidity level exceeding a predetermined humidity level, to switch on said extractor fan at a time before the time of expiration of the respective time interval associated with said given cooking mode at which said extractor fan would have otherwise been switched on.
6. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , including said extractor fan is formed monobloc with a cooling fan.