Home cooking appliance having a rear exhaust louver
AssigneesBSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsTemple Chadwick, David Dysinger, Michael Gerdes
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Abstract
A home cooking appliance includes a housing, a cooking surface on a top of the housing, a cooking compartment in the housing, a cooling air system conveying air through the housing, and a rear exhaust louver on the housing, the rear exhaust louver in fluid communication with the cooling air system and exhausting a portion of the air from the housing in an upward direction substantially in a plane of the rear wall of the housing to increase air pressure along a kitchen wall adjacent to the rear wall of the appliance.
Claims36
A home cooking appliance comprising:
- a housing;
- a cooking surface on a top of the housing;
- a cooking compartment in the housing;
- a cooling air system having a cooling fan conveying air through the housing;
- a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing;
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- a rear exhaust louver on the housing, the rear exhaust louver in fluid communication with the cooling air system and exhausting a portion of the air received from the cooling fan under pressure from the housing in an upward direction substantially in a plane of a rear wall of the rear vent trim to form a pressurized air wash blowing in the upward direction between a rear wall of the rear vent trim and a kitchen wall adjacent to the rear wall of the appliance.
A home cooking appliance comprising:
- a housing;
- a cooking surface on a top of the housing;
- a cooking compartment in the housing;
- a cooling air system having a cooling fan conveying air through the housing;
- and
- means for exhausting a portion of the air received from the cooling fan under pressure from the housing in an upward direction substantially in a plane of the rear wall of the housing and forming a pressurized air wash blowing in the upward direction along a kitchen wall adjacent to the rear wall of the appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.