Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
219757000 | With cooling or ventilation | 32 |
20080217329 | MICROWAVE OVEN AND VENTILATION HOOD COMBINATION SYSTEM - A modular microwave oven and ventilation hood combination system, includes a core module, comprising a core module housing, and a microwave cooking chamber, fitted in said core module housing. The system further includes an intake module, comprising an intake module housing connected to a lower side of the core module housing, and an air inlet for drawing air from an area above a range. | 09-11-2008 |
20090008387 | Microwave Oven Window - An observation window for a microwave device exhibiting microwave radiation of a predetermined frequency, the observation window comprising two optically transparent panels to which an optically transparent conductive film has been applied to a single side thereof, each of the transparent conductive films primarily reflecting incident microwave radiation and being substantially parallel and spatially separated from each other by a predetermined distance, the predetermined distance being equal to an odd integer multiple of one quarter of the wavelength of the microwave radiation of the predetermined frequency in the interstice between the transparent films, the predetermined distance having a tolerance of plus or minus 0.15 of the wavelength in the interstice. | 01-08-2009 |
20090134155 | VENT GRILLE OF MICROWAVE OVEN - A vent grille is provided. The vent grille is disposed on a front side of a microwave oven. Exhaust and inlet holes are disposed in a top side of the vent grille. The exhaust and inlet holes are not exposed when viewed from the front of the microwave oven. Air flows into and out of the microwave oven through the inlet and exhaust holes. An oblique guide surface or guide rib is provided to guide air discharged through the exhaust holes. Therefore, the frontal aesthetics of the microwave oven can be improved, and any safety hazard can be prevented. Furthermore, contaminants generated from food can be efficiently removed. | 05-28-2009 |
20090188915 | HEATING COOKER - A heating cooker having a box-like cooking chamber for receiving an object to be cooked, and a hot air generator having an electric heater heat source and a blower. Hot air produced by the hot air generator is caused to impinge on the object as a high-speed jet flow from nozzle holes formed in a ceiling plate of the cooking chamber. The hot air after the impingement is sucked by the blower from hot-air suction openings formed in left and right sidewall lower sections of the cooking chamber and is returned for recirculation to the hot-air generator. | 07-30-2009 |
20100089910 | VENTILATION HOODED MICROWAVE OVEN AND COOLING SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - Provided are a ventilation hooded microwave oven and a cooling system for the ventilation hooded microwave oven. In the ventilation hooded microwave oven, a pull-up door is provided, and various components of a cavity assembly, the pull-up door, and a door handle can be cooled by airflows induced by a cooling fan assembly. Therefore, outside areas of the ventilation hooded microwave oven can be efficiently used, and the ventilation hooded microwave oven can be reliably prevented from overheating. | 04-15-2010 |
20100170895 | VENTILATION HOODED MICROWAVE OVEN - A ventilation hooded microwave oven is provided. In the ventilation hooded microwave oven, a pull-up door is attached to a cavity assembly. The pull-up door is supported by a door support device when the pull-up door is pulled to open a cooking chamber of the ventilation hooded microwave oven. Therefore, a place where the ventilation hooded microwave oven is installed can be more efficiently used, and loading and unloading food into and out of the cooking chamber can be carried out more easily. | 07-08-2010 |
20100187225 | MICROWAVE OVEN - A microwave oven is provided. Components can be easily replaced through a service opening. Therefore, rapid and easy maintenance of the microwave oven can be possible. | 07-29-2010 |
20100200577 | BUILT-IN COOKING DEVICE - The invention provides a built-in cooking device comprising a door | 08-12-2010 |
20100200578 | MICROWAVE OVEN INCLUDING HOOD - A microwave oven including an extendable/retractable hood assembly is provided. The microwave oven draws contaminated air through intake ports that are provided in a hood casing and a hood. The hood is slidably received in the hood casing. Thus, the hood is retracted or extended from the hood casing to more efficiently perform an air exhaust function. | 08-12-2010 |
20100320198 | COOKING APPARATUS - A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooking cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lower space formed below the cooking cavity. A fan provided in the rear space generates a cooling flow that cools components housed in the rear space. A cooling flow path extends from the rear space and into the upper space and lateral side spaces. Flow from the upper space enters the door to cool the door and is exhausted through a lower portion of the door. Flow from the lateral side spaces, which includes an exhaust flow from the cooking cavity, is guided to the lower space and exhausted. In this manner, the cooking apparatus can be completely cooled and cooking odors and heat appropriately exhausted by the cooling fan positioned in the rear space. | 12-23-2010 |
20100320199 | COOKING APPARATUS - A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooking cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lower space formed below the cooking cavity. A fan provided in the rear space generates a cooling flow that cools components housed in the rear space. A cooling flow path extends from the rear space and into the upper space and lateral side spaces. Flow from the upper space enters the door to cool the door and is exhausted through a lower portion of the door. Flow from the lateral side spaces, which includes an exhaust flow from the cooking cavity, is guided to the lower space and exhausted. In this manner, the cooking apparatus can be completely cooled and cooking odors and heat appropriately exhausted by the cooling fan positioned in the rear space. | 12-23-2010 |
20110006056 | MICROWAVE OVEN - A microwave oven is provided. A barrier member prevents airflow provided by a fan assembly from being introduced again to the fan assembly. A separation member divides the airflow provided by the fan assembly to cool a first component and a second component. Thus, the components are efficiently cooled. | 01-13-2011 |
20120043318 | COOKING DEVICE - A cooking device comprises: a body casing ( | 02-23-2012 |
20130134156 | MICROWAVE OVEN HAVING HOOD - Provided is a microwave oven having a hood. The microwave oven having the hood includes a main body having a cooking chamber in which foods are cooked and a passage through which air containing contaminants flows, a hood casing disposed on a lower portion of the main body, a first hood taken out of the hood casing, and a second hood taken out of the hood casing at a position different from that of the first hood. | 05-30-2013 |
20130153571 | HEATING COOKER - A casing, a heating chamber that is provided in the casing and that has an opening on a front face thereof, an exhaust tube for guiding exhaust from inside of the heating chamber to front face side of the casing, a cooling fan that is provided in the casing, and an exhaust duct having an exhaust inlet to which the other end of the exhaust tube is connected are provided. Position along height direction of a cooling air inlet into which cooling air flows from under the exhaust duct is lower than position along the height direction of the discharge ports of the exhaust duct, and the position along the height direction of the cooling air inlet of the exhaust duct is lower than position along the height direction of the exhaust inlet of the exhaust duct. A heating cooker is provided that prevents the exhaust from the inside of the heating chamber from flowing into a main body thereof even if a fan for supplying air that is to be mixed with the exhaust breaks down. | 06-20-2013 |
20130240509 | MICROWAVE OVEN HAVING A HOOD - Provided is a microwave oven having a hood. The microwave oven having the hood includes a main body having a cooking chamber in which foods are cooked and a passage through which air containing contaminants flows, a hood casing disposed on a lower portion of the main body, a first hood taken out of the hood casing, a second hood tilted at a position different from that of the first hood, the second hood being taken out of the hood casing, and a tilting control device allowing or restricting tilting of the second hood due to a self-weight of the second hood. | 09-19-2013 |
20130248523 | MICROWAVE OVEN - A microwave oven includes: a cabinet forming the exterior; a base plate coupled to the cabinet and forming a bottom surface; a rear plate coupled to the cabinet and forming a rear surface; a cavity installed on the base plate to form a space at a rear side of the base plate; first and high-voltage transformers positioned in the space, and installed in one side and the center of the base plate, respectively; a first magnetron positioned in the space and disposed in the opposite side of the first high-voltage transformer; a second magnetron positioned in the space and disposed over the first magnetron; a fan assembly positioned in the space and disposed over the first transformer; a fan housing covering the fan assembly; and an air guide tube connected to the fan housing, and guiding an air flow to the first and second magnetrons. | 09-26-2013 |
20140021199 | HANDLE WITH A HEAT SINK - A handle is disclosed. The handle includes a casing, which includes an outside surface and an inside surface. The handle further includes a pliable heat sink disposed on the inside surface of the handle casing. A microwave oven incorporating such a handle is also disclosed. | 01-23-2014 |
20140042156 | MICROWAVE OVEN HAVING HOOD - A microwave oven having a hood is provided. The microwave oven may more efficiently suction air containing contaminants, thereby more efficiently preventing diffusion of air containing contaminants. In addition, the microwave oven may tilt a tilting hood using a simplified construction. | 02-13-2014 |
20140144906 | HEATING COOKING DEVICE - In a heating cooking device, a machine chamber is provided adjacent to a heating chamber for housing a food product. An air supply port is provided in a partition wall that separates the heating chamber and the machine chamber. An air supply fan is provided in the machine chamber, for supplying air to the heating chamber through the air supply port. An air supply damper is provided in the machine chamber, for opening and closing the air supply port. A control unit drives the air supply fan and brings the air supply damper into an open state during high-frequency heating of the food product. The control unit brings the air supply damper into a closed state simultaneously with completion of high-frequency heating of the food product or immediately before or immediately after the completion. | 05-29-2014 |
20140291318 | MICROWAVE HEATING APPARATUS - A microwave heating apparatus is provided to perform heat treatment on a substrate to be processed by irradiating a microwave to the substrate in a processing chamber. The microwave heating apparatus includes a supporting table configured to support the substrate in the processing chamber, a microwave introducing unit configured to introduce the microwave into the processing chamber, a coolant channel formed in the supporting table, and a coolant supply source configured to supply a coolant to the coolant channel. At least a surface of the supporting table which supports the substrate is made of a material in which a product of a relative dielectric constant and a dielectric loss angle is smaller than 0.005, and the coolant supplied from the coolant supply source is liquid having no electrical polarity. | 10-02-2014 |
20150053674 | OVER-THE-RANGE MICROWAVE OVEN AND VENTILATION PASSAGE SYSTEM OF THE SAME - An over-the-range microwave oven and a ventilation passage system of the same are provided. The over-the-range microwave oven includes an outer casing defining a cooking cavity and an exhaust passage in the outer casing, the exhaust passage defining an inlet formed in a base plate of the outer casing and an outlet; and a baffle plate disposed below and facing the base plate, in which the baffle plate and the base plate are spaced apart from each other to form a smoke collection cavity between the baffle plate and the base plate. | 02-26-2015 |
20150069049 | MICROWAVE APPLIANCE AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A microwave appliance and method for operating a microwave appliance are provided. The method includes operating a fan of the microwave appliance in order to draw a flow of air through a circulation conduit of the microwave appliance, measuring an air quality of the flow of air within the circulation conduit with a sensor of the microwave appliance, and deactivating the fan of the microwave appliance if the air quality of the flow of air within the circulation conduit of the microwave appliance exceeds a threshold value. In such a manner, the flow or air can be properly filtered without operating the fan of the microwave appliance excessively. | 03-12-2015 |
20150305095 | MICROWAVE OVEN - A microwave oven includes an outer housing defining an accommodating chamber therein and having a first cooling air inlet and a first cooling air outlet therein; an inner housing disposed within the accommodating chamber and defining a heating chamber therein, the heating chamber having a second cooling air inlet and a second cooling air outlet communicated with the first cooling air outlet, a cooling air passage being defined between an upper surface of the inner housing and a top wall of the accommodating chamber and communicated with the second cooling air inlet; a cooling fan having an air inlet communicated with the first cooling air inlet via an air inlet passage and an air outlet communicated with the cooling air passage; and an electrical component disposed within the cooling air passage. | 10-22-2015 |
20150373789 | VENTILATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME - Ventilation systems and methods are provided. A method for operating a ventilation system includes receiving a fan speed of a first fan of a range appliance, the first fan operable to flow air through a first conduit of an air curtain assembly of the range appliance, the first conduit defined in a cabinet of the range appliance. The method further includes determining a corresponding fan speed for a second fan, the second fan operable to flow air through a second conduit of a vent appliance. The method further includes outputting the corresponding fan speed to the second fan. The corresponding fan speed for the second fan is correlated with the fan speed of the first fan such that a volumetric flow rate through the second conduit is greater than or equal to a volumetric flow rate through the first conduit. | 12-24-2015 |
20160119982 | MICROWAVE OVEN - A microwave oven includes a housing having a receiving chamber therein; an inner case provided in said receiving chamber, a left air channel being formed between a left side wall of the receiving chamber and a left side of the inner case, a right air channel being formed between a right side wall of the receiving chamber and a right side of the inner case; a left fan provided in the left air channel and a right fan provided in the right air channel, each of the left and right fans including a front impeller, a rear impeller and a driving motor, wherein at least one of the front and rear impellers is adjacent to at least one of front and rear walls of the receiving chamber which is corresponding thereto, at least one of the front and rear impellers is spaced from the driving motor at a predetermined distance. | 04-28-2016 |
20160150601 | Cooking Device And Ventilation Apparatus - A cooking device is described. The cooking device includes a main body. The cooking device includes a ventilation apparatus that is located at a lower side of the main body, that is configured to suck air into the main body, and that is configured to discharge air from the main body. The ventilation apparatus includes a base that is connected to the lower side of the main body and that includes an introduction port. The ventilation apparatus includes a swirler that is configured to generate suction by rotating air around the introduction port of the base and that includes a plurality of wings. The ventilation apparatus includes a driving unit that is configured to rotate the swirler. The ventilation apparatus includes a swirler guide that is configured to cover an underside of the swirler and that is configured to guide a flow of air around a center of the swirler. | 05-26-2016 |
20160165672 | OVER-THE-RANGE MICROWAVE OVEN AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An over-the-range microwave oven includes: a housing; a cooking unit which is disposed in the housing; an air discharge unit which includes an air discharge motor in the housing; an air discharge duct unit which discharges air through the air discharge unit; a cooling duct unit which guides outside air to the air discharge motor in order to cool the air discharge motor; and a duct unit in which the air discharge duct unit and the cooling duct unit are separated vertically. | 06-09-2016 |
20160165674 | OVER-THE-RANGE MICROWAVE OVEN AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An over-the-range microwave oven including a duct unit configured to direct air from the back of the oven to the front and further includes an integrated duct module. The duct unit includes: a first panel at the bottom, a pair of second panels forming both lateral side surfaces of the duct unit. Water vapor generated from food being cooked flows along an enclosed flow path and thus is unaffected by the exhaust air flow. A humidity sensor is disposed on the first panel and operable to detect water vapor in the cooking unit. | 06-09-2016 |
20160165675 | OVER-THE-RANGE MICROWAVE OVEN AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An over-the-range microwave oven including a duct unit configured to direct air from the back of the oven to the front. The duct unit includes a first panel disposed between the housing and the cooking unit of the oven. The first panel forms a bottom wall of the duct unit. The duct unit further includes at least a pair of second panels disposed on both lateral sides of the first panel. The gap between the pair of second panels decreases from one side end toward the other side end. | 06-09-2016 |
20160192445 | Microwave Cooking Device - A microwave oven includes a shell defining a cooling air inlet and a cooling air outlet therein; a compartment defining a cavity, nested in the shell and defining an open front end, a receiving space being defined between a rear plate of the compartment and a rear plate of the shell; a first electric member and a second electric member disposed in the receiving space respectively; and a fan disposed in the receiving space, defining a first air inlet, a second air inlet, a first air outlet communicated with the first air inlet to define a first air blowing channel, and a second air outlet communicated with the second air inlet to define a second air blowing channel, the fan being configured to cool the first electric member via the first air blowing channel and to cool the second electric member via the second air blowing channel. | 06-30-2016 |
20160381741 | MICROWAVE OVEN - A microwave oven is provided. The microwave includes a main body having a suction port formed on one side thereof. The microwave also includes a flow path formed inside the main body and connected to the suction port. The microwave further includes a filter unit arranged on the flow path. In addition, the microwave includes an exhaust grille portion configured to form a part of the main body and provided with an exhaust port formed thereon, the exhaust port configured to exhaust air that is filtered through the filter unit. The exhaust grille portion includes an opening formed on a front surface thereof for replacement of the filter unit and a door configured to at least one of open or close the opening. | 12-29-2016 |