Patent 7475630 was granted and assigned to Conair Corporation on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A cooking appliance is provided. The cooking appliance has a heating plate with at least one cooking surface, a heater for heating the heating plate, a support structure for supporting the heating plate, and an interface mechanism that, in response to the heating plate being positioned on the support structure in a predetermined position, is actuated to permit heating of the heater.