公开(公告)号：US20250024996A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-23

申请号：US18780115

申请日：2024-07-22

Applicant: Dinemic Ventures LLC

Inventor： Gennadiy Goldenshteyn ,  Val Ginzburg ,  Dmitry Rumyantsev ,  Vladimir Gordeev

IPC: A47J37/12 ,  A47J27/18 ,  B65G15/30 ,  F25D13/06

Abstract: Described herein are automated cooking apparatuses for storing and cooking food items as well as methods of operating such apparatuses. In some examples, an automated cooking apparatus comprises a storage unit, a delivery unit, and a cooking unit. The storage unit may be equipped with a refrigeration unit and a container delivery opening. The delivery unit is aligned with this opening and configured to load a set amount of the food items into each food compartment of the cooking unit. The cooking unit moves its food compartments through a cooking tank (e.g., filled with a cooking liquid and heated using a set of heating elements) and into a cooked food receiver. The storage unit or, more specifically, its uncooked food container unit is positioned proximate (e.g., within 200 millimeters) to the cooking tank thereby reducing the time for transporting the food items relative to the cooking time.

公开(公告)号：US20250017420A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-16

申请号：US18900226

申请日：2024-09-27

Applicant: Henny Penny Corporation

Inventor： Kimberly Reichelderfer ,  Thomas M. Smith ,  Adrian Jason Pereira ,  Michael Maddux

IPC: A47J37/12 ,  A23L5/10 ,  B25J9/02 ,  B25J9/10 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J15/00

Abstract: An automated cooking system for adding time and labor efficiencies in food production environments such as restaurants. The automated cooking system includes at least a fryer, a dispensing freezer, a hot holding station, a plurality of baskets, and a gantry system. The gantry system includes a gantry control for a gantry, configured to engage and move each of the baskets. The basket and gantry include interface elements for enabling precise movements and rapid opening and closing of baskets at the system. Aspects of an automated cooking system and a corresponding method for discharging cooked food product help to avoid the problems associated with manually operating a cooking system. Specifically, the system described herein provides for apparatuses and methods to cook and dispense food product in a more efficient manner with regard to both time and labor considerations within food production environments.

公开(公告)号：US20250008974A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-09

申请号：US18293293

申请日：2022-04-28

Applicant: GIANT CO., LTD.

Inventor： Joonseok LEE ,  Takahiko ITO ,  Takashi ISOBE

IPC: A23D9/04 ,  A23D9/06 ,  A47J37/12 ,  C11B3/00

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel technique related to electric field treatment of edible oil.
The present invention is an electric field treatment device for edible oil, the device including: an energization unit that is capable of being installed in at least one of side surface regions of an oil reservoir having a heating unit, wherein the heating unit is capable of heating a side surface and/or a bottom surface of the oil reservoir, and is capable of forming heat convection of the edible oil in both directions of the side surface region including the energization unit in the oil reservoir and a central region in the oil reservoir, and the energization unit is capable of applying an alternating electric field to the edible oil provided in the oil reservoir, includes at least two electrodes having a gap or a hole which is a path of heat convection of the edible oil and locally increases an electric field intensity applied to the edible oil, and applies the alternating electric field.

公开(公告)号：US20240423414A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18748713

申请日：2024-06-20

Applicant: Henny Penny Corporation

Inventor： Kimberly Reichelderfer ,  Ares Marasligiller

IPC: A47J37/12 ,  G06V10/56 ,  G06V20/68

Abstract: An automated cooking system includes a fryer with at least one fryer vat configured to hold a cooking medium, and at least one basket configured to receive and hold a food product for cooking in the cooking medium at the fryer. The cooking system further includes a basket movement device including a basket support for engaging the at least one basket. The basket movement device is configured to move the at least one basket into and out of the cooking medium. Further, the basket movement device includes a retention clip to releasably secure the at least one basket to the basket support. The cooking system includes a vision system and a visual indicator system to help, with the basket movement device, automate workflow decisions and management at the fryer. A method of cooking food products and a method for managing basket workflow with/at an automated cooking system are also provided.

公开(公告)号：US20240415332A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-19

申请号：US18812270

申请日：2024-08-22

Applicant: Miso Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Ryan W. Sinnet ,  Abhimanyu Bhakuni ,  William Guffey ,  Ryan R. Wach ,  Robert Anderson

IPC: A47J37/12 ,  A23L5/10 ,  A47J44/00 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J11/00 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B65G11/02

Abstract: A robotic kitchen system for preparing food items in combination with at least one kitchen appliance such as a fryer comprises an automated bin assembly, a robotic arm, and a basket held by the robotic arm. The automated bin assembly comprises at least one automated bin for holding the food items. A camera or sensor array collects image data of the food items in the bin(s). A central processor is operable to compute and provide directions to the first robotic arm and automated bin assembly based on the image data and stored data to (a) move the robotic arm to the bin; (b) actuate the bin to drop the food items from the bin into the basket; (c) and to move the basket into the fryer all without human interaction. Related methods are also described.

公开(公告)号：US20240382042A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US18641315

申请日：2024-04-19

Applicant: WINSTON INDUSTRIES, LLC

Inventor： Lloyd Dennis Hall, JR. ,  Jonathan Winn Hall ,  Kevin Paul Combs

IPC: A47J37/12

Abstract: An apparatus for cooking food under atmospheric or pressure environment or in a basket while immersed in a batch of cooking liquid. The cooking vessel is controllably heated and the level of the cooking liquid is controlled by at least one capacitor in contact electrical contact with a capacitor sensor in fluid communication with the cooking liquid and a controller for controlling the temperature and amount of cooking liquid in the cooking vessel at various stages of the cooking process.

公开(公告)号：US20240298651A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18269274

申请日：2021-12-22

Applicant: CJ CHEILJEDANG CORPORATION

Inventor： Yeung Tak Kim ,  Seung Min Kim

IPC: A21C5/00 ,  A21C9/04 ,  A21C9/08 ,  A47J37/12

CPC classification number: A21C5/006 ,  A21C9/04 ,  A21C9/08 ,  A47J37/12

Abstract: A stick-type food preparation system according to the present invention comprises: a forming apparatus for covering a filling-ingredient stick, which is formed by skewering a filling ingredient with a stick, with dough; an applying apparatus for applying a topping to a dough stick which is formed from the filling-ingredient stick in the forming apparatus; and a deep fryer for deep-frying in oil a semi-finished product which is formed by applying the topping to the dough stick in the applying apparatus.

公开(公告)号：US20240215757A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18149118

申请日：2023-01-02

Applicant: Thomas Andrew Braun

Inventor： Thomas Andrew Braun

IPC: A47J37/04 ,  A47J37/06 ,  A47J37/12

CPC classification number: A47J37/043 ,  A47J37/067 ,  A47J37/1228

Abstract: An automated food patty cooking apparatus comprising a horizontal rotating griddle with dividers which automatically fries hamburger/sandwich patties. A dispensing component loaded with various patties comprises horizontal trays stacked on top of one another that moves vertically up and down and dispenses a desired patty. The patties keep on rotating and after being cooked on one side, flipped over one by one and cooked on the opposite side using a flipper capable of moving either direction. After the patties are cooked, the flipper lifts them off the griddle and tilts them up, to slide them down a chute onto a conveyor belt or storage bin. The apparatus utilizes a real time Artificial Intelligence control module capable of predicting future demands, prepares patties in advance and optimizes cooking temperature, rotational speed, number of rotations, flipping action, and is fed orders electronically from customers online or from kiosks.

公开(公告)号：US11992157B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US18031554

申请日：2021-10-14

Applicant: SEB S.A.

Inventor： Delphine Schwartz ,  Frédéric Pain

IPC: A47J37/12

CPC classification number: A47J37/129 ,  A47J37/1261

Abstract: A deep fryer tank made of a deep-drawn metal material includes a bottom and several sides connected to the bottom by curves, at least one of the sides having at least one rigidifying lateral indentation forming a lateral recess extending in one direction.
At least one side has at least one other rigidifying lateral indentation forming another lateral recess extending in another direction, and the at least one rigidifying lateral indentation intersects the at least one other rigidifying lateral indentation.
An electric deep fryer comprises a deep fryer tank of the aforementioned type.

公开(公告)号：US20240144769A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US18241889

申请日：2023-09-03

Applicant: Franke Foodservice Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Mark E. Allegra ,  Khalil Chmayssani ,  Ireneusz Czapp ,  Tomasz Robaszkiewicz ,  Marek Ormanin ,  Brian Phillips

IPC: G07F11/24 ,  A47F1/035 ,  A47J37/12 ,  A47J47/01 ,  G07F11/44 ,  G07F11/48 ,  G07F11/50 ,  G07F11/52 ,  G07F17/00

CPC classification number: G07F11/24 ,  A47F1/035 ,  A47J37/1271 ,  A47J47/01 ,  G07F11/44 ,  G07F11/48 ,  G07F11/50 ,  G07F11/52 ,  G07F17/0078 ,  G07F17/0064

Abstract: An improved dispenser unit for dispensing bulk food items, including a cabinet having at least one hopper having a drum with product compartments, a deflector and flexible gate valve, a dispense assembly, and a control system. The dispense assembly may or may not include one or more belts and/or sensors. The product compartments include flexible and/or elastic membranes, which dynamically change the effective product storage volume within a compartment, and eliminate rigid or semi-rigid pinch points between the drum and drum compartment. A product flow divider may be positioned above the receiving container in the dispense assembly, said divider configured to cause the dispensed product to divide into two or more flow streams into the receiving container. The receiving container may be vibrated or oscillated.