US 12,167,816 B2
Control of a portable food processing apparatus
Wing Kee Cheng, Eindhoven (NL); Dennis Lai, Eindhoven (NL); and Samuel Agustin Cuaresma, Jr., Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/917,502
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Apr. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/058972
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/204824, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20168377 (EP), filed on Apr. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146115 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. A47J 43/08 (2006.01); A47J 43/046 (2006.01); A47J 43/07 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 43/085 (2013.01) [A47J 43/046 (2013.01); A47J 43/0761 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable food processing apparatus comprising:
a food processing chamber including a blade arrangement; and
a housing comprising: a motor for driving said blade arrangement, a microcontroller for controlling said motor, and at least one motion sensor communicatively coupled to said microcontroller;
wherein the microcontroller is adapted to:
evaluate a sensor data produced by the at least one motion sensor in order to detect a predefined motion pattern in said sensor data and said predefined motion pattern corresponding to an operation setting of the motor; and
control said motor in accordance with said operation setting upon detection of the predefined motion pattern.