A cooking appliance includes a door for closing a cooking chamber, a door-opening device configured to automatically move the door between a closed position and an open position of the door, and a sensing device operatively connected to the door-opening device. The sensing device is configured to sense a triggering element separate from the cooking appliance for controlling the door-opening device.

An oven including a camera disposed above a cooking compartment to clearly capture an inside of the cooking compartment, and having a structure which cools the camera to prevent a temperature of the camera from being increased due to heat generated in the cooking compartment. The oven includes the camera provided above the cooking compartment and configured to capture the inside of the cooking compartment, a camera cooling fan disposed above the camera and configured to cool the camera by suctioning external air, a first glass provided at a ceiling of the cooking compartment so that the camera captures the inside of the cooking compartment and configured to block transmission of heat in the cooking compartment to the camera, and a second glass provided between the camera and the first glass and configured to block transmission of heat to the camera.

An oven appliance defines a vertical direction, a lateral direction and a transverse direction. The vertical, lateral and transverse directions are mutually perpendicular. The oven appliance includes a cabinet extending between a first side portion and a second side portion along the lateral direction. The cabinet also extends between a top portion and a bottom portion along the vertical direction. The cabinet defines an upper cooking chamber positioned adjacent the top portion of the cabinet and a lower cooking chamber positioned adjacent the lower portion of the cabinet. The oven appliance also includes a first heating element in direct thermal communication with the upper cooking chamber and a second heating element in direct thermal communication with the lower cooking chamber.

An air processing system comprises an air purifier (10) and/or an air quality sensor (12). One or both is controlled (14), or else sensor information is interpreted, in dependence on activity status information received from a plurality of home appliances (16, 8, 20, 22). This enables the operational life time of components in system to be extended, specifically the sensors and/or air purifier filters. Alternatively or additionally, it enables the air quality sensor information to be interpreted more reliably.

The present invention generally relates to a system and method for high accuracy temperature control of an oven used to operate an electronic device, sensor, or resonator at a fixed temperature. The fixed temperature operation may result in high stability and operation accuracy of the devices across varying environment temperature conditions. Specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods that enable realizing, sensing, and controlling the temperature of an ovenized device with high temperature control, accuracy, relaxed temperature sense, and control electronics requirements.

A home cooking appliance includes a gas surface cooking unit and a gas cooktop fire prevention system. The gas surface cooking unit includes a gas burner, a support surface configured to support a cooking vessel above the gas burner, a cooktop floor below the gas burner, and a gas supply line supplying gas to the gas burner. The gas cooktop fire prevention system includes a solenoid valve on the gas supply line and a gas supply cutoff unit configured to detect a temperature of the cooktop floor and close the solenoid valve when the detected temperature of the cooktop floor is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold temperature of the cooktop floor, thereby cutting off a supply of the gas through the gas supply line to the gas burner.

Electronic thermostat for an oven that includes a shaft with a first end suitable for being coupled to a rotary knob for modifying the temperature set point according to its angular position, and an electronic board with a potentiometer, a second end of the shaft being coupled to the potentiometer. The electronic thermostat includes a support having a base in which the electronic board is fixed, a side wall extending from the base, and a support wall extending from the base and arranged parallel to the side wall, the shaft going through the side wall and the support wall.

An aided safety cooking appliance for safe and assisted cooking includes a housing having a front side with an oven aperture extending through to proximal a rear side and a rear side extending above the top side to form an upper panel. An oven door is coupled to the housing to open and alternatively cover the oven aperture. A range top comprises a plurality of burners coupled within the top side of the housing. A plurality of heating elements is coupled within each of the plurality of burners and the oven aperture. A pair of control units comprises an upper control unit and a lower control unit. Each of the pair of control units comprises a plurality of buttons. A CPU is coupled to the housing and is in operational communication with the plurality of buttons of each of the pair of control units and with the plurality of heating elements.

A method for adjusting an appliance heating element power level includes adjusting a heating element to a first power level in response to actuation of a user input to a first level setting and adjusting the heating element from the first power level to a second power level in response to actuation of the user input to a second level setting. The second power level of the heating element is different than the first power level of the heating element, and the second level setting is next to the first level setting within a power level setting sequence. The method also includes adjusting the heating element from the second power level to a third power level in response to actuation of the user input back to the first level setting. The third power level of the heating element is between the first and second power levels of the heating element.

A cooking appliance capable of preventing a user's unintended rotation of a knob assembly includes: a main body including a control panel; a valve positioned inside the main body, and including a valve shaft being pushable and rotatable; and a knob assembly including an inner knob coupled with the valve shaft, and an outer knob being movable with respect to the inner knob in a first direction in which the outer knob approaches the inner knob, wherein, when the outer knob moves by a first push distance in the first direction, the valve shaft and the inner knob are prevented from rotating.