Patent ID: 11910509
Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  F | IPC F  H

Claim 10:
11. A method for controlling average power delivered to coils of a flexible induction cooktop that are arranged adjacent to one another in a non-overlapping manner to form a plurality of columns, wherein each of the columns in the plurality of columns comprises a plurality of coils, the method comprising:
a) identifying a group of the of coils that are underlying one or more cookware items;
b) providing power to at least one coil of the group of coils underlying one or more cookware items; and
c) restricting the coils that can be activated at the same time to be coils whose distance between each pair of the group of coils is larger than a predetermined threshold.