Cooking apparatus and controlling method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeung Hun Kim, Young Wook Woo, Gyu Sik Lim, Hong Man Chang
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are a cooking apparatus and a controlling method thereof. The cooking apparatus according to one aspect of the present embodiment includes an input part configured to receive a plate warming mode command; a microwave heating part configured to radiate microwave to at least one plate disposed in a cooking chamber provided inside the cooking apparatus; and a control part configured to control at least one of an operation time of the microwave heating part and an intensity of the microwave radiated from the microwave heating part when the plate warming mode command is input.
Claims17
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a cooking chamber;
- an input part configured to receive at least one of a plate warming mode command to warm one or more plates to a first temperature and a food warming mode command to warm food to a different second temperature;
- a microwave heating part configured to radiate a microwave to the one or more plates disposed in the cooking chamber in response to receiving the plate warming mode command to warm the one or more plates to the first temperature;
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- a control part configured to estimate a number of plates disposed in the cooking chamber, and to control at least one of an operation time of the microwave heating part and an intensity of the microwave radiated from the microwave heating part to warm the one or more plates to the first temperature based on the estimated number of plates disposed in the cooking chamber when the plate warming mode command is received.
A method for controlling a cooking apparatus having one or more plates disposed in a cooking chamber, comprising:
- receiving at least one of a plate warming mode command and a food warming mode command;
- estimating a number of the one or more plates disposed in the cooking chamber;
- receiving one of a first mode to warm the one or more plates to a first temperature and a second mode to warm the one or more plates to a different second temperature when the plate warming mode command is received;
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- controlling a radiation of a microwave according to an operation method predetermined corresponding to the one of the first mode and the second mode received, and warming the one or more plates disposed in the cooking chamber to the first temperature or the different second temperature based on the one of the first mode and the second mode received, and the estimated number of plates disposed in the cooking chamber when the plate warming mode command is received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.