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US 10,094,576 B2Granted
Cooking appliance
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsWontae Kim, Wansoo Kim, Byungkyu Park
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Abstract
A cooking appliance includes a case, a cooktop at an upper part of the case, including a heating source, a cavity in the case, including a cooking chamber for cooking foods, a steam generator receiving heat from the heating source to generate steam, and a steam flow part having one end connected to the steam generator and another end connected to the cooking chamber to guide the steam generated from the steam generator to the cooking chamber.
Claims18
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a case;
- a cooktop at an upper part of the case, comprising a top plate on which a cooking object or a container to accommodate the cooking object can be seated, and a first heating source;
- a cavity in the case, comprising a cooking chamber for cooking foods;
- a second heating source to provide heat to the cavity;
- a control panel to adjust operation of the second heating source for cooking the foods in the cavity;
- a steam generator to receive heat from the first heating source and to generate steam;
- and
- a steam flow part in the control panel and having one end connected to the steam generator and another end connected to the cooking chamber to guide steam generated from the steam generator to the cooking chamber,
- wherein if the cooking object or the container is seated on the top plate, the first heating source provides heat to the cooking object or the container, and
- wherein if the steam generator is seated on the top plate, the first heating source provides heat to the steam generator.
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A cooking appliance comprising:
- a cooktop comprising a first heating source and a top plate on which a cooking object or a container to accommodate the cooking object can be seated;
- an oven under the cooktop, comprising a cooking chamber for cooking foods and a second heating source;
- a control panel to control operation of the oven;
- a steam generator that can be seated on the cooktop to receive heat from the first heating source, thereby generating steam;
- and
- a steam flow part on the control panel to guide steam generated from the steam generator to the cooking chamber,
- wherein if the cooking object or the container is seated on the top plate the first heating source provides heat to the cooking object or the container, and
- wherein if the steam generator is seated on the top plate, the first heating source provides heat to the steam generator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.