An induction cooker according to the present disclosure includes a body including a top plate on which a heating target is placed, a frame formed to surround an outer periphery of the top plate, and having a discontinuous portion being electrically discontinuous from other parts of the frame, a heating coil disposed below the top plate, and configured to inductively heat the heating target, a driver circuit configured to supply electric power to the heating coil, a power transfer coil configured to transfer electric power by magnetic resonance, and a power transfer circuit configured to supply electric power to the power transfer coil, and a power receiving device including a power receiving coil configured to receive electric power from the power transfer coil by magnetic resonance, and a load circuit configured to operate by the electric power received by the power receiving coil.

The present invention relates to a cooking container for a smart under range, which enables the installation of a means for sensing the temperature of the cooking container heated by the means of the smart under range induction to be simplified and the operation control of the smart under range induction to be easy.

A cooking system includes a hot plate having a region for setting down of a cooking pot, and a display unit arranged at least partially in a region close to the region for setting down a cooking pot, when being viewed in a vertical direction onto a main extension plane of the hot plate. The display unit is operated in an operating state by a control unit as a function of at least one operation request parameter.

In order to detect whether a cooking vessel with an integrated controller or intelligence is arranged over an induction heating coil on an induction hob, the induction heating coils emit a short individual coding. This can be detected and evaluated by the cooking vessel, with the result that the cooking vessel emits a signal which corresponds to this coding and is received by an external operating device or the induction hob for the purpose of locally assigning this cooking vessel to this induction heating coil.

A smart inductive heating appliance includes an interface for interacting with a package intelligence and communication module on a smart package. The smart heating appliance may also detect and charge chargeable devices inductively. A number of data sets may be utilized to enhance control of heating/cooking and to enhance safety. A thermodynamic load profile of the package may include detailed data correlations established in a package testing step and utilized to control heating of the package as well as to validate and authenticate the package.

According to one example, a cookware apparatus includes a vessel. The vessel includes a bottom, and a sidewall surrounding the bottom and extending upward from the bottom so as to form a fluid retaining interior region. The sidewall terminates at a rim. The vessel also includes a channel extending through a portion of the bottom and further extending upward into and through a portion of the sidewall. The channel has an opening positioned in an external surface of the sidewall. The cookware apparatus further includes a thermal sensor positioned within the channel. The thermal sensor extends through the portion of the bottom and further extends upward into and through the portion of the sidewall.

The present embodiment relates to a cooker to be put on an induction heater having a working coil, the cooker comprising: a base; a container disposed at an upper part of the base and heated by an induced current of the working coil; a cap for covering the upper surface of the container; a pressure adjusting valve installed at the cap; a cooker communication module for communicating with the induction heater; and a cooker micro-computer for controlling the pressure adjusting valve and the cooker communication module. Therefore, the cooker enables cooking while the cooker is put on one selected from among multiple induction heaters having a working coil, thus improving the convenience of use, and is structurally simpler than a pressure rice cooker, thus minimizing the number of components thereof.

An inductive heating cooker includes a main body and a power-receiver device. The main body includes a top plate on which a heating target is placed, a heating coil provided under the top plate and configured to inductively heat the heating target, a drive circuit configured to supply electric power to the heating coil, a power transmission coil configured to transmit the electric power by magnetic resonance, and a power transmission circuit configured to supply the electric power to the power transmission coil. The power-receiver device includes a power reception coil configured to receive the electric power from the power transmission coil by the magnetic resonance, and a load circuit configured to operate by the electric power received by the power reception coil.

A method for automatically correlating at least one cooktop utensil with at least one cooking zone of an inductive cooktop having a plurality of cooking zones which are inductively heated by at least one respective heating coil, includes: providing the cooktop with a cooktop controller configured to drive the heating coils with a correlation signal; providing the at least one cooktop utensil with an induction coil inductively couplable with the heating coils of the cooktop and a transmitter unit; supplying the transmitter unit with an operation power when a voltage is induced by at least one of the heating coils into the induction coil of the cooktop utensil that is placed on the cooking zone associated with this heating coil; transmitting, by the transmitter unit of the cooktop utensil, by the operating power, a response signal that identifies the cooktop utensil and correlates with the induced correlation signal.

Various smart package configurations may include a package intelligence and communication module (PICM) intelligently interacting with smart heating appliances and users. A thermodynamic load profile may correlate thermodynamic response characteristics of the package and be stored in or associated with a unique identifier in the PICM. The TLP enables efficient and safe heating of packages on a smart appliance as well as package validation and authentication. Package configurations also include structural elements for efficient heating of food, beverage, cosmetic and personal care products.