A refrigerator is proposed. Due to a first heater provided in a damper assembly, a damper assembly or the connection portion of the damper assembly with a supply duct is prevented from freezing, and due to a second heater provided in the supply duct, the connection portion of the supply duct with the damper assembly or the inside of the supply duct is prevented from freezing.

A heat retentive server includes a chamber defined between an upper shell and a lower shell that are connected to one another. An induction-heatable member is positioned in the chamber, and the induction-heatable member may be heated by electromagnetic induction to a first temperature that is greater than the heat deflection temperature of the upper shell. Buffering material comprising an inhibitively conductive hydrophobic material is positioned in the chamber between the induction-heatable member and the upper shell, and the buffering material is adapted for providing predetermined conductive heat transfer from the induction-heatable member to the upper shell so that at least a portion of the upper shell is heated to a second temperature that is greater than the heat deflection temperature of the upper shell. The second temperature is less than the first temperature.

The invention relates to a method for operating an induction hob (1), the induction hob (1) comprising a power circuit portion (2) with at least one switching element adapted to provide pulsed electric power to an induction coil (3) and a control entity (4) for controlling operating parameters of the switching element, the method comprising the steps of: performing a control loop with control cycles in order to detect coupling changes between the induction coil (3) and a piece of cookware, said control cycles comprising the steps of: receiving frequency information (f.sub.curr) and power information (P.sub.curr) at said control entity (4); calculating at least one relation coefficient (Ds′, Ds″) based on said frequency information (f.sub.curr) and said power information (P.sub.curr); and comparing said relation coefficient (Ds′, Ds″) with a relation coefficient boundary, thereby deriving a comparison result; deciding, based on the comparison result, whether to: perform a new control cycle of said control loop or whether to stop said control loop and said provision of pulsed electric power to the induction coil (3) and restart said control loop after updating an operating parameter of the switching element.

An induction device includes an induction unit including a sensor unit which is arranged above the induction unit in a mounted position and includes a plurality of activity sensor elements arranged in a distributed manner and configured to detect a sensor parameter in the form of an activity parameter of the induction unit. A control unit is provided to analyze the sensor parameter.

The present disclosure relates to an induction heating apparatus and a method for controlling the same. In one embodiment, when a power level of a heating zone is input, a noise suppressing operation may be performed to suppress initial driving noise that might occur before a frequency for heating a container. A controller of the induction heating apparatus may adjust duty cycles of switching signals input to switching elements included in an inverter circuit and a driving frequency of the inverter circuit respectively and perform the noise suppressing operation. In the embodiment, when a power level of a heating zone is set and a container starts to be heated, initial driving noise may be reduced.

A cooking appliance may include a holder disposed in an induction heating element provided below a cover plate, and a supporter disposed inside the holder that supports a sensor inserted into the holder to contact the sensor to the cover plate.

The present disclosure relates to an induction cooking top comprising a system adapted to modify the control of the presence of the pan on the induction cooking top, upon a command by the user.

Temperature measurement systems (20) include a temperature sensor (22) and an electronic signal interrogator (24). The temperature sensor (22) has a transponder (26) equipped with an antenna (28), and a separate parasitic antenna (32) with a temperature-sensitive transducer (34, 68-74, 78a-84a), while the interrogator (24) has a transmitter (42) and antenna (40). The sensor (22) is designed to be placed in thermal contact with an object to be temperature-measured, with the interrogator (24) placed in proximity to the object. The systems (20) may be used with food servingware domes (88, 114), which can be preheated and placed over a food-bearing plate to maintain the temperature of the food.

A hob device, in particular an induction hob device, includes a variable cooking surface, a user interface and a control unit which in the presence of a heating type divides the cooking surface into a plurality of heating zones in at least one dividing direction, associates heating parameter to each of the heating zones, in a manner dependent on location, for heating at least one cooking pot placed on the heating zone, and forms a cooking zone that is associated with the cooking pot and is heated using the heating parameter. In the event of a request of the heating type for the cooking pot, the control unit is provided to wait for at least one operating action by a user by way of the user interface.

A stove guard arrangement includes sensors for detecting events on a stove and for providing detection data, and a programmable processing component for analysing the detection data and for providing exceptional situation data in response to the detection data indicating an exceptional situation defined in the programming of the processing component. The stove guard arrangement comprises a receiver connected to the processing component and arranged to receive radio-frequency interference and to provide corresponding reception data. The processing component is arranged to recognize regular changes in said reception data and derive, on the basis of the recognized regular changes, a conclusion that the stove is an induction stove.