Patent ID: 11927278
Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G | IPC F  G

Claim 12:
13. A cooking appliance, comprising:
a plurality of gas cooktop burners having associated valves and ignitors, wherein the valves are digital gas valves that are electrically actuated to control output level;
a plurality of control selectors associated with and assigned to the plurality of gas cooktop burners and having respective outputs representative of valve positions of the valves for the associated gas cooktop burners; and
a controller coupled to the plurality of control selectors, the controller configured to control the associated valve and the associated ignitor for a selected gas cooktop burner among the plurality of gas cooktop burners to ignite the selected gas cooktop burner in response to a two-step activation sequence initiated in response to user input directed to the associated control selector for the selected gas cooktop burner and a voice recognition module output received in response to a detection of a predetermined voice of a user.