OvenGUARD©

Description

One the common cause of household fires is the user forgets to close the stove or oven after cooking or the user has forgotten the he or she has something cooking on the stove or the oven. One of the common problems is the user goes to sleep after user has turn on the oven or the stove and fire starts on the oven and spreads to the rest of the house. It is estimated that 50-100 persons die each year from household fires in Sweden. Many lives can be saved and millions of kroners in reparations costs for insurance companies to repair and pay for life insurance for these damages and deaths. Insurance companies can save millions of kroners by having an oven or stove timer such as OvenGUARD© system installed in households’ where the majority of the users are elderly.The OvenGUARD© system device is also preventing children from accidentally turning on the stove or oven as the oven or stove when connected to my device then the oven is in electrically disconnected. The OvenGUARD© system can easily operated by elderly persons with poor memory and by persons with handicaps.

The OvenGUARD© system is easy to operate and easy to install on household stove and ovens.

My OvenGUARD© is an electronic device which turns off the stove or oven after the user has used up the chosen set time. The user sets the usage time on the controller unit by pressing one of the 3 buttons on the unit. One can choose 30 min, 2 hours or 5 hours. There is a display on the controller unit which shows the time left after starting the timer. A buzzer will give a short sound signal when the time starts and when the time ends. The controller is easily accessible by the user as it is placed on the kitchen bench beside the oven/stove and the user can choose a usage time by pressing a button on this device. After this set time is used up the oven/stove shuts down the electrical power is disconnected in the stove/oven and this prevents any fires being caused by user forgetting to shut down the oven/stove after cooking the food. As an added safety feature the oven guard has IR-heat sensor which will automatically shut down the oven or stove in case of fire if it detects a high temperature on the stove plate it shuts down the oven/stove. OvenGUARD© only works for electric ovens or stoves. 

The user connects the OvenGUARD© between the 400 VAC AC mains and the oven. The controller is then placed on the kitchen bench and the heat sensor is mounted on the wall behind the stove (about 45 cm) as shown in the figure below.

OvenGUARD© system connected to the oven/stove 

The OvenGUARD© system consists of 3 parts: 

1) OvenGUARD© PSU unit 

2) OvenGUARD© controller unit 

3) OvenGUARD© IR sensor unit 

The controller unit and the sensor unit are connected to the PSU unit by cable and the 3 units make up the OvenGUARD© system.

This product is approved and conforms to CE directives:

LVS-EN 50615 and LVS-EN60730-1.

Directive 2014/30/EU (EMC)

Device: Product Category B