181 |
DOMESTIC APPLIANCE WITH AN ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND A COOLING CHANNEL |
US16312435 |
2017-06-20 |
US20190234618A1 |
2019-08-01 |
Fabienne Reinhard-Herrscher; Angela Ziegler; Marco Böckler |
The present invention relates to a domestic appliance, in particular a cooking oven, comprising at least one illumination device (10) and at least one cooling channel (30). The cooling channel (30) includes an elongated portion extending inside a wall (12) of a cavity (14) of the domestic appliance. An inner sheet (28) of said wall (12) faces the cavity (14). The cooling channel (30) is connected or connectable to at least one fan (44; 46) for generating an air stream (32, 34, 36) inside said cooling channel (30). The illumination device (10) is provided for illuminating the cavity (14) of the domestic appliance and comprises at least one LED board (16) and at least one transparent panel (18, 20). At least one light emitting diode (22) is arranged at an inner side of the LED board (16) and directed to the cavity (14). A transparent inner panel (20) of the illumination device (10) faces the cavity (14) and is arranged in a cut-out of the inner sheet (28) of the wall (12). The illumination device (10) is at least partially integrated inside the elongated portion of the cooling channel (30), so that a section of said elongated portion of the cooling channel (30) is formed within or by the illumination device (10) and at least a part of the air stream (34, 36) passes through the illumination device (10) and flows along at least one side of the LED board (16). |
182 |
FAN FOR OVENS |
US15992220 |
2018-05-30 |
US20180347829A1 |
2018-12-06 |
Oscar MARTINI; Enrico MARTINI |
Fan for ovens, which comprises a support plate and multiple blades projectingly fixed on the support plate and arranged around the rotation axis of the fan. Each blade is provided with a rear edge fixed to the support plate, with an external edge and with an internal edge placed to connect between the rear edge and the external edge and facing the front side of the fan. The fan also comprises a ring fixed to the blades, positioned in a position substantially intermediate between the internal edge of the blades and the support plate in order to create a non-interference zone. |
183 |
Oven appliance |
US14838716 |
2015-08-28 |
US10125999B2 |
2018-11-13 |
Stephen Bernard Froelicher; Christopher James Adelmann; James Lee Armstrong |
An oven appliance includes a baking stone positioned within a housing at a bottom portion of a cooking chamber. A casing is mounted to the housing at the opening of the housing. The casing extends about the opening of the housing and is removable from the housing. The casing may be replaced with an interchangeable casing having a different cosmetic appearance and/or operational features. |
184 |
PASS THROUGH CONVECTION OVEN |
US15895403 |
2018-02-13 |
US20180238560A1 |
2018-08-23 |
Eric Deng; Michael D. Mason; Chris Moy |
According to one example, a convection oven comprises a cooking chamber having a front door and a rear door opposing the front door; a combustion chamber disposed below at least a portion of the cooking chamber; a side flue conduit configured to direct hot air from the combustion chamber to the cooking chamber; and a side sub-chamber with a convection fan configured to re-circulate at least a portion of the hot air within the cooking chamber, in which the side sub-chamber is disposed adjacent a side of the cooking chamber that is orthogonal to the front and rear door. |
185 |
Double oven appliance |
US15153820 |
2016-05-13 |
US10024541B2 |
2018-07-17 |
Walter Wojick; William Byron Wiggins; Edwin Glenn Zehr; Kenneth Willard Johnson |
A double oven appliance having an upper and lower oven positioned below the upper oven along a vertical direction such that a gap is defined between a top wall of the lower oven and a bottom wall of the upper oven. A bracket having a mounting platform positioned within the gap and spaced from the top wall of the lower oven along the vertical direction. The double oven appliance further including a circuit board coupled to the mounting platform such that the circuit board may be spaced from the top wall of the lower oven along the vertical direction. Further, the circuit board may be cooled by a cooling medium flowing across the circuit board. |
186 |
COOKING APPLIANCE |
US15860230 |
2018-01-02 |
US20180192482A1 |
2018-07-05 |
Tae-Hun KIM; Jong-Hoon LEE; Woo Joo KIM; In Ki JEON; Seong Joo CHO; Kun-Woo CHOI |
Disclosed herein are a lamp module that includes a double insulation structure and a cooling structure, thus being usable even in a high temperature condition, and a cooking appliance including the same. The cooking appliance includes a cooking compartment, a cooling fan disposed at an upper portion of the cooking compartment to suction outside air, and a lamp module configured to illuminate an inside of the cooking compartment and disposed adjacent to the cooling fan to exchange heat with the outside air suctioned by the cooling fan. |
187 |
Appliance thermal management systems |
US14213456 |
2014-03-14 |
US09989262B2 |
2018-06-05 |
Francis Sidney Tyler; Manoj Choudhary; Larry John Grant; William Kunkler; Robert P. Collier; A. Lee Miller |
A thermal appliance is provided. The thermal appliance includes a heating compartment inside of an enclosure, with insulation disposed between the heating compartment and enclosure. Retainers or standoffs are also included in the thermal appliance to prevent air gaps from forming between the insulation and the heating compartment, and to prevent the insulation from making contact with the enclosure. |
188 |
HEAT COOKING DEVICE |
US15569581 |
2016-08-23 |
US20180098389A1 |
2018-04-05 |
TOSHIFUMI KAMIYA; TAKAHIRO HAYASHI |
In a heat cooking device equipped with a memory card attaching mechanism for inserting a memory card, the memory card attaching mechanism is configured to have, on a lower face of a main body of the heat cooking device, a card insertion port for inserting the memory card vertically upward. The card insertion port is configured to be hidden by a front grille panel attached to a machine chamber lying under the main body so as not to be exposed from the heat cooking device. Therefore, the reliable commercial heat cooking device that does not require a special waterproof measure can be provided. |
189 |
Anti-spill oven door vents |
US14328819 |
2014-07-11 |
US09897327B2 |
2018-02-20 |
Bryan Thomas Phillips; Brian Martin; Tommaso Raggi; Gabriele Gardini |
A cooking apparatus comprises a housing forming an oven cavity within the housing. A door is attached to the housing for selectively opening and closing the oven cavity. The door comprises an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface includes a vent in fluid communication with an air channel within the door. A movable blocking element for selectively opens and closes the vent. The movable blocking element is biased against the vent when the door is open, thereby closing the vent when the door is open. The movable blocking element is configured to translate linearly within the door, toward the vent and away from the outer surface of the door to close the vent, and toward the outer surface of the door and away from the vent to open the vent. |
190 |
HOME COOKING APPLIANCE HAVING A METERED EXHAUST CHANNEL |
US15229154 |
2016-08-05 |
US20180038596A1 |
2018-02-08 |
Ray Briscoe; Gayle Collins; Chris Hoyle; Brandon Kornegay |
A home cooking appliance includes a housing having a rear exhaust exit, a cooking surface on top of the housing, the cooking surface having an upper surface, a cooking compartment in the housing, a cooling air system that conveys cooling air through the housing, an exhaust channel in fluid communication with the cooling air system and the rear exhaust exit, the exhaust channel for guiding a portion of the cooling air from the cooling air system to the rear exhaust exit, and an airflow metering device configured to control an airflow of the portion of the cooling air flowing at least one of into the exhaust channel and within the exhaust channel. |
191 |
Cooking Appliance and Method of Reducing Cooking Appliance Console Temperature |
US15228132 |
2016-08-04 |
US20180038595A1 |
2018-02-08 |
Jack R. Thomas |
A cooking appliance comprises a cooktop, an oven cavity and a console. The console includes a user interface for the cooking appliance. Air exiting the oven cavity passes through a flue, and a deflector reduces heat transfer between this air and the console. The cooking appliance further comprises a back panel including a first hole. Air traveling along a first airflow path defined by the cooking appliance exits the flue and is deflected rearward through the first hole by the deflector. |
192 |
Cooking device |
US13266243 |
2010-04-27 |
US09879866B2 |
2018-01-30 |
Hiromi Suenaga; Shigenori Morimoto |
A cooking device includes a casing, a heating chamber (102) provided in the casing and having an opening on a front side thereof, and a heat shield member (122) for blocking heat that transfers from the heating chamber (102) toward the casing. At least a part of the heat shield member (122) is located in a position that enables the heat shield member (122) to receive water droplets dropping through between the heating chamber (102) and the casing (101). The configuration reduces the possibility that a motor (133) and other components located below the heating chamber (102) fails by becoming wet due to condensate water. |
193 |
COOLING SYSTEM FOR AN OVEN APPLIANCE |
US15216771 |
2016-07-22 |
US20180023817A1 |
2018-01-25 |
Eric Scott Johnson; Aashish Ashokrao Saraf; Brandon John Bucholz; Katherine Michelle Jansen |
A cooling system for an oven appliance is provided. The oven appliance includes an insulated chamber positioned within a cabinet such that a plurality of air flow passageways are defined therebetween. A control panel is positioned at a top, front of the oven appliance and defines an electronics chamber which is in fluid communication with a side air flow passageway. An exhaust duct is positioned between the insulated chamber and the cabinet and is placed in fluid communication with the electronics chamber. An exhaust fan is positioned within the duct and is configured for drawing cooling air through the side air flow passageway, into the electronics chamber, and through the exhaust duct to an outlet where it is exhausted from the oven appliance. |
194 |
OVEN APPLIANCE |
US15218122 |
2016-07-25 |
US20180020680A1 |
2018-01-25 |
Stephen Bernard Froelicher; Christopher James Adelmann |
An air distribution assembly for an oven appliance is provided. The air distribution assembly includes an air distribution manifold mounted to a housing of the oven appliance at an opening of the housing. An air handler draws air into the air distribution manifold through a manifold inlet, circulates the air throughout the air distribution manifold, and discharges the air through a manifold outlet. A variety of cooling air flow paths may be defined within the air distribution manifold and/or oven appliance, thereby providing optimal cooling with a simplified construction. |
195 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COOLING GAS COOKTOP KNOBS |
US15163831 |
2016-05-25 |
US20170343219A1 |
2017-11-30 |
Ray Briscoe; Conor Cross; Michael Gerdes |
A cooktop has a top sheet; a space below the top sheet; a first passageway through the top sheet; a second passageway through the top sheet; a first gas burner that draws primary combustion air from the space below the top sheet; a first gas control knob that controls an amount of gas that flows to the first gas burner, the first gas control knob protruding through the first passageway; a second gas burner that draws primary combustion air from the space below the top sheet; and a second gas control knob that controls an amount of gas that flows to the second gas burner, the second gas control knob protruding through the second passageway. The first passageway and the second passageway have different airflow rates at a given negative air pressure in the space below the top sheet. |
196 |
ENCLOSURE PANEL WITH VENTILATION SECTION FOR DOMESTIC HOME APPLIANCE |
US15158761 |
2016-05-19 |
US20170336079A1 |
2017-11-23 |
Ben Braden; Rose Marie Parker; Timothy Russell; Tyson White; William Bringe |
A domestic appliance has an enclosure panel that has a ventilation section that has solid portions and open portions. The solid portions has first legs extending in a first direction, and second legs extending in a second direction. Two of the first legs and two of the second legs completely bound one of the open portions. A third one of the second legs intersects the first one of the first legs at a first intersecting location other than either end of the first one of the first legs. A fourth one of the second legs intersects the second one of the first legs at a second intersecting location other than either end of the second one of the first legs. |
197 |
COOKING DEVICE |
US15518350 |
2016-02-22 |
US20170311394A1 |
2017-10-26 |
Masaki SHIBUYA; Akira KATAOKA |
Cooking device includes heating chamber with door for housing object to be heated, vapor generator for supplying vapor into heating chamber, and water storage tank. Cooking device further includes cooling air passage provided between heating chamber and water storage tank and allowing cooling air to pass therethrough, and air inlet provided to the side of door and introducing cooling air into cooling air passage. This enables cooling, using a smaller and more inexpensive cooling fan. As a result, cooking device is made shorter in overall height. |
198 |
OVEN DOOR AND OVEN COMPRISING AN OVEN DOOR |
US15321581 |
2015-06-24 |
US20170205078A1 |
2017-07-20 |
Dietmar Hildner; Branko Ivanovic; Erhard Käser; Antonio Aguilar; Morgan Börjesson; Mathieu Riviere |
The invention relates to an oven door (10) for closing a cavity (2) of an oven (1) comprising a glass portion (11) being at least partially transparent for enabling a user to look into the oven cavity (2), wherein the oven door (10) comprises lighting means (12) implementing an optical user interface for displaying optical information at the glass portion (11). |
199 |
Ventilation panel and oven |
US12012728 |
2008-02-04 |
US09696042B2 |
2017-07-04 |
Robert Hasslberger; Dan Neumayer; Jörg Rosenbauer; Markus Theine |
A ventilation panel for a ventilation system of an oven with an air inlet aperture has a first subsidiary air inlet aperture and a second subsidiary air inlet aperture, which are separated from each other by a dividing wall at least partially in the air entry area. The oven has a housing ventilation duct, which directs air at least partially around a muffle, where the housing ventilation duct is at least partially divided into a first and a second subsidiary ventilation duct, where entry of the air to the subsidiary ventilation ducts takes place by means of a shared ventilation panel, and a door ventilation duct, which directs air through an oven door, where a fresh air feed leads to the ventilation panel, and where, when the oven door is closed, an air outlet aperture of the door ventilation duct of the ventilation panel of the housing ventilation duct lies opposite to and at a distance from an area of the second subsidiary ventilation duct, the ventilation panel having a first subsidiary air inlet aperture, which is allocated to the first subsidiary ventilation duct, and a second subsidiary air inlet aperture, which is allocated to the second subsidiary ventilation duct, where the subsidiary air inlet apertures are at least partially separated from each other by means of a dividing wall in the air entry area. |
200 |
Oven |
US14336336 |
2014-07-21 |
US09677770B2 |
2017-06-13 |
Dong Ho Lee; Dong Jin Oh |
An oven that effectively cools a door by adjusting a position of a cooling guide includes a casing having at least one inhalation hole and at least one ejection hole; a cooking chamber which has an opening and is placed inside the casing; a door that is rotatably coupled to one portion of the casing so as to open/close the opening; a cooling fan that discharges air introduced into the inhalation hole to the ejection hole placed at a front portion of the casing; and an air guide that is installed adjacent to the ejection hole so as to change a direction of air driven by the cooling fan. The cooling guide is installed not to disturb the flow of air that passes through the door so that the door using minimum sheets of glass can be provided. |