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WO2018144423A1 - Dispositif de commande à base de potentiomètre pour four - Google Patents

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WO2018144423A1
WO2018144423A1 PCT/US2018/015858 US2018015858W WO2018144423A1 WO 2018144423 A1 WO2018144423 A1 WO 2018144423A1 US 2018015858 W US2018015858 W US 2018015858W WO 2018144423 A1 WO2018144423 A1 WO 2018144423A1
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Charles L'ESPERANCE
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
    • F24C7/08—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F24C7/087—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices of electric circuits regulating heat
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C3/00—Stoves or ranges for gaseous fuels
    • F24C3/12—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F24C3/126—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges
    • F24C3/128—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges in baking ovens
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
    • F24C7/08—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F24C7/082—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination
    • F24C7/085—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination on baking ovens

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  • the subject disclosure is directed to a controller for an oven, and more particularly to a temperature control system for controlling an oven temperature.
  • Ovens are well known appliances that are useful for drying, heating, and cooking products. Some ovens are used for industrial application purposes, while other ovens are used for food preparation purposes. Often, it is desirous for the oven to be brought to a specific temperature so that an item placed within an oven cavity may be dried, heated, or cooked. Many ovens include an adjustable temperature control, such as a knob, that allows a user to rotate the knob to select the temperature at which the oven should operate. However, the temperature control on some of these ovens operates in direct correlation to the amount that the temperature control knob is rotated. Too much rotation of the temperature control knob and the temperature setting will pass the desired temperature resulting in too hot of an oven. Too little rotation of the temperature control knob and the desired temperature setting is not reached, resulting in an oven that is too cold.
  • an adjustable temperature control such as a knob
  • a temperature control system for controlling an oven temperature comprises a potentiometer and a processor.
  • the potentiometer comprises a shaft and at least a first and a second terminal, and provides a variable resistance between the first terminal and the second terminal in response to a rotation of the shaft.
  • the variable resistance forms a resistance output value.
  • the processor is configured to detect one of a plurality of set point modes each comprising a different number of non-sequential temperature set points each of which span a range of resistances of the potentiometer, and convert the output resistance of the potentiometer into a temperature setting signal that corresponds with a temperature assigned to the resistance range of the measured resistance output.
  • Figure 1 is a partial schematic of a first exemplary oven heating circuit with an enhanced portion of the circuit.
  • Figure 2 is an illustration of a potentiometer.
  • Figure 3 is a flow diagram for assigning a temperature to a range of resistances along portions of the potentiometer.
  • Figure 4 is an illustration of 3 set point regions along the resistive portions of a potentiometer.
  • Figure 5 is an illustration of 5 set point regions along the resistive portions of a potentiometer.
  • Figure 6 is an illustration of 8 set point regions along the resistive portions of a potentiometer.
  • Figure 7 is an illustration of a 3 set point mode highlighting an active region.
  • Figure 8 is a partial schematic of a second exemplary oven heating circuit with an enhanced portion of the circuit. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS AND THE PRESENTLY PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
  • a temperature control system improves the selectability of an oven
  • the system uses a continuous device to generate non-sequential discrete temperature signals to control the temperature within an oven cavity.
  • the temperature control system selects from one of a plurality of different set point modes, where each mode has a different number of regions spaced around the rotational movement of the continuous device, and where each region is assigned different predetermined temperatures. Analysis of the resistance measured across terminals of the continuous device correlates to a specific region and
  • the temperature control system allows a user to select an oven temperature without concern that a temperature control knob must be turned to an exact location for the oven to reach a desired temperature.
  • the system may also eliminate the need for manufacturers to purchase multiple different mechanical thermostat switches for use with various configurations of ovens.
  • FIG. 1 is a partial schematic of an oven heating circuit 100 that shows the general components and wiring of a gas convection oven using a temperature control system. Also shown in Figure 1 is an enhanced portion of the circuit.
  • An operation selector switch 102 may control the operation of the oven. As illustrated in Figure 1, the operation selector switch 102 is a multimode switch that can be used to turn the oven heating circuit 100 OFF or ON in various modes of operation. In some ON
  • the oven heating circuit 100 activates a heating element and a blower motor to circulate heated air throughout the oven cavity to a set temperature. In other ON configurations, the oven heating circuit 100 can activate the blower motor without activating the heating element to operate in a cool down mode. While Figure 1 illustrates a multimode operation selector switch 102, the heating circuit 100 could alternatively be configured with one or more single mode switches that can each control a different heating and/or circulation function of the oven. [0017] When the operation selector switch 102 is turned ON and set to a cooking mode, a power source supplies power to the oven heating circuit 100 through power lines LI and N that can in turn provide power to a blower motor 104, a cooling fan 106 and a transformer 108. A door switch 1 10 may be included as a safety function to ensure that the blower motor 104 does not operate during a cooking mode when the oven door is open.
  • the transformer 108 provides a stepped down power from that received on power lines LI and N to a spark ignition control 1 12.
  • the spark ignition control 1 12 is used to generate a flame for converting a gaseous fuel to heat that is then circulated throughout a cavity of the oven by the blower motor 104.
  • the gaseous fuel may be supplied through a gas line, and may be either natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas.
  • the processor 1 14 may evaluate a number of paired input pins on the processor 1 14 to determine if any are shunted together. Based on the determination of which of the paired input pins are shunted together, the processor 1 14 selects from the plurality of set point modes which mode, and therefore the number of different assignable temperature regions and each region's predetermine temperature, is active during a cooking mode.
  • processor 1 14 may access a set point mode parameter retained in a memory.
  • the set point mode parameter may define which of the plurality of set point modes should be used by the processor when the oven heating circuit 100 is active during a cooking mode.
  • a continuous device such as a potentiometer 1 16, may be in communication with processor 1 14.
  • the potentiometer 1 16 may operate as a temperature selection device for the oven heating circuit 100 with each of a first terminal 202, a second terminal 204, and a third terminal 206 of the potentiometer 1 16 connected to terminals of the processor 1 14.
  • a knob may be placed at the end of the potentiometer's 1 16 shaft 208 so that a user can rotate the shaft 208.
  • a wiper within potentiometer 1 16 sweeps across a conductive strip and resistive strip of the potentiometer 1 16 thereby varying the resistance over which the wiper has traversed.
  • An indicator may be included on a face of the knob that correlates with the location of the potentiometer's 1 16 wiper. This indicator allows the user to identify an amount of rotation of the knob and the location where on the rotational path of the potentiometer 1 16 the wiper is located.
  • the potentiometer's 1 16 resistance as a result of the rotation of its wiper may be measured by the processor 1 14 across a first terminal and second terminal of the potentiometer 1 16. This output resistance of the potentiometer 1 16 is directly
  • the processor 1 14 may also receive from a probe 1 18 positioned within the oven cavity an input signal that varies with the temperature in the oven cavity. In some ovens, this probe 1 18 may be a resistance temperature detector. The processor 1 14 may evaluate the probe 1 18 signal and determine the temperature within the oven cavity. Based on the temperature sensed from the probe 1 18 and a desired temperature setting determined from the region correlating with the resistive output of potentiometer 1 16, the processor 1 14 may output a control signal to spark ignition control 1 12 to increase or decrease the temperature within the oven until the processor 1 14 determines based on measurements from probe 1 18 that the desired temperature has been achieved.
  • an oven operation mode switch 102 is engaged to a cooking position.
  • the processor 1 14 evaluates the set point mode in which the system is configured to operate.
  • the processor 114 may access a set point mode parameter retained in a memory.
  • the memory may be internal to the processor 1 14 or may be external to the processor 1 14 and in
  • the set point mode parameter may define which of the plurality of set point modes should be used by the processor 1 14 when the oven heating circuit 100 is active during a cooking mode.
  • the processor 1 14 may evaluate processor configuration pins to determine which pair of pins are shunted together to identify which set point mode to select from a plurality of set point modes retained in the memory associated with the processor 1 14. For example, in some oven heating circuits 100 that utilize a shunt to configure the set point mode, a processor 1 14 may include five pin pairs that are used to determine the set point mode. Shunting the first pair of processor pins together may cause the processor 1 14 to interpret the output resistance of the potentiometer 1 16 as a standard continuous device.
  • Shunting the second pair of processor pins together may cause the processor 1 14 to divide the full resistance of the potentiometer 1 16 into a first number of regions, such as three equally sized regions as illustrated in Figure 4.
  • Shunting the third pair of processor pins together may cause the processor 1 14 to divide the full resistance of the potentiometer 1 16 into a second number of regions, such as five equally sized regions as illustrated in Figure 5.
  • shunting the forth pair of processor pins together may cause the processor 1 14 to divide the full resistance of the potentiometer 1 16 into third number of regions, such as eight equally sized regions as illustrated in Figure 6.
  • changing which pair of processor pins are shunted together changes the number of set point regions and thus the number of temperatures that may be selected with the potentiometer.
  • An exemplary temperature setting table that may be retained in the memory associated with processor 1 14, illustrates how different predetermined temperatures can be assigned to the different set point regions:
  • regions do not need to be equal.
  • an oven is to be routinely set to a specific temperature(s) one or more regions can be sized to have a larger arcuate distance around potentiometer 1 16 while the other regions are appropriately decreased in size.
  • a first region and a third region could each be reduced by 25 percent of their otherwise equal ohmic range while the second region could be increased by 50 percent of its otherwise equal ohmic range.
  • the processor 1 14 determines the resistance range of each individual set point range. For example, if the total resistance of potentiometer 1 16 is approximately 3000 ohms, and the oven heating circuit 100 is configured for a three set point mode, then each region spans approximately 1000 ohms.
  • processor 1 14 measures that output resistance of potentiometer 1 16. As shown in Figure 7, if the shaft 208 of potentiometer 1 16 is rotated such that the measured resistance in anywhere in the range between greater than approximately 2000 ohms and less than approximately 3000 ohms (e.g.
  • the processor 1 14 accesses the temperature setting table and sets the temperature setting signal to the predetermined temperature associated with this third range. Based on the above exemplary table, the temperature setting signal for the configuration of Figure 7 would be set to 400 degrees. Processor 1 14 may then cause the oven's heating source to adjust the oven temperature to this temperature setting, which can be monitored with data obtained through probe 1 18. As the potentiometer's 1 16 shaft 208 is rotated to a different region, processor 1 14 may evaluate the new output resistance of the potentiometer 1 16, determine the temperature setting associated with this new region, and cause the necessary components of the oven to activate or deactivate in order to increment or decrement the oven's temperature, as needed, until the new temperature is achieved.
  • FIG 8 illustrates a second exemplary oven heating circuit 800.
  • potentiometer 1 16, processor 114, and probe 1 18 may operate in similar fashion as previously described.
  • Figure 8 illustrates the versatility of the disclosed temperature control system, as oven heating circuit 800 illustrates use of the temperature control system in an electric oven that may be powered by either a single-phase or three- phase power source.
  • Figure 1 and 8 illustrate various general components associated with the respective circuits, these are provided only for exemplary purposes. It is contemplated that more, less, or other components may be used in conjunction with the disclosed temperature control system.

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Système de régulation de température pour réguler une température de four comprenant un potentiomètre et un processeur. Le potentiomètre comprend un arbre et au moins une première et une seconde borne, et fournit une résistance variable entre la première borne et la seconde borne en réponse à une rotation de l'arbre. La résistance variable forme une valeur de sortie de résistance. Le processeur est conçu pour détecter un mode parmi une pluralité de modes de point de consigne comprenant chacun un nombre différent de points de consigne de température non séquentiels dont chacun s'étend sur une plage de résistances du potentiomètre, et convertir la résistance de sortie du potentiomètre en un signal de réglage de température qui correspond à une température attribuée à la plage de résistance de la sortie de résistance mesurée.
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