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US 10,060,632 B2Granted
Cooking apparatus and method of controlling the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJung Soo Lim, Kyoung Mok Kim, Kyu Sun Lee, Hyun Sook Kim
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus including a filter which may efficiently collect gas and smoke generated in a pyro-cleaning process, and a method of controlling the same. The cooking apparatus includes a main body having a cooking chamber formed therein, a vent unit configured to discharge gas in the cooking chamber to the outside of the main body, and a filter installed in at least one of the cooking chamber and the vent unit to collect gas or smoke generated in the cooking chamber. The filter includes a metal sheet.
Claims20
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a main body having a cooking chamber and a vent unit formed therein, the vent unit including an exhaust fan within the vent unit configured to discharge gas from the cooking chamber to an outside of the main body;
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- a filter installable in at least one of the cooking chamber and the vent unit to filter gas and/or smoke generated in the cooking chamber,
- wherein the filter comprises a metal sheet.
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A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a main body having a cooking chamber and a vent unit formed therein, the vent unit including an exhaust fan within the vent unit;
- a convection flow unit comprising a convection heater to heat air in the cooking chamber and a convection fan to circulate the air in the cooking chamber;
- a filter installed in at least one of the cooking chamber and the vent unit to filter gas and/or smoke generated in the cooking chamber;
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- an alarm system configured to detect a blockage of the filter and to alert a user of the detected blockage of the filter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.