Patent attributes
A grill device includes pivotally connected lower and upper grilling units, an auxiliary grilling unit, and main and auxiliary controllers. Each of the lower and upper grilling units and the auxiliary grilling unit includes a grilling plate and a heater module for heating the grilling plate. The main controller is for sensing temperatures of the grilling plates of the lower and upper grilling units, and disables the heater modules thereof when the temperature is greater than a first predetermined temperature. The auxiliary controller is for sensing a temperature of the grilling plate of the auxiliary grilling unit, and disables the heater module thereof when the temperature is greater than a second predetermined temperature lower than the first predetermined temperature.