Patent ID: 8742299

Claim:
A method for searching for a heating area (Zi) comprising a set of inductors at least partly covered by a container (Ri) placed on a cooktop, the cooktop comprising inductors forming means ( 11 ) for detecting a presence of a container distributed in a two-dimensional frame in a cooking plane, comprising: a step (E 37 , E 87 ) of adding an inductor in said heating area (Zi) searched for when the presence of the container (Ri) is detected opposite said inductor; a step (E 39 , E 82 ) of drawing up a list of free adjacent inductors, said free adjacent inductors not belonging to another heating area and being adjacent said heating area (Zi) searched for; a step (E 43 , E 86 ) of testing detection of the presence of a container (Ri) opposite a free adjacent inductor from said list of inductors, said testing step (E 43 , E 86 ) being repeated only for each free adjacent inductor from said list of inductors; and a step (E 37 , E 87 ) of adding each free adjacent inductor in said heating area (Zi) searched for if the presence of the container (Ri) is detected opposite said free adjacent inductor.