Patent ID: 6664519
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: F24C,H05B

Abstract:
A touch switch operating panel (14) for the starting of cooking stages including a digital cooking stage display (23) on a cooking top (11) having plurality of cooking zones (12), each of said cooking zones having an optical display associated therewith, which are individually selectable for the starting of cooking stages and settable through plus +/minus âˆ’ function switch elements (19+, 19âˆ’) of a cooking stage switch (19); wherein for a circuit arrangement on a single plate surface with lamps (22), displays (23) and sensor switch locations (15; 17, 18, 19) located below an uninterrupted said operating panel (14) there is provided a single selector switch (18) for all cooking zones (12) for a cyclical actuation of the cooking stage switch (19) designed as pulse width modulators for the individual cooking zones (12), said operating panel (14) in the presence of cooking zone lamps (22) having in the center of the arrangement of said lamps a cooking stage display (23) selectively common to all of said lamps or individually to each of said lamps which remain actuated as long as the therewith associated cooking stages are not actually set to zero, which is implemented for the individual presently selected cooking zone (12) through a simultaneous actuation of both cooking stage function switch elements (19+, 19âˆ’) or for the entire cooking top (11) through actuation of a mains switch (17) located in the operating panel (14).