Cooking appliance and method of reducing cooking appliance console temperature
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorJack R. Thomas
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Abstract
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.
Claims18
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a cooktop;
- an oven cavity;
- a console including a user interface for the cooking appliance;
- a flue through which air exiting the oven cavity passes;
- a deflector configured to reduce heat transfer between the air exiting the oven cavity through the flue and the console, wherein the deflector includes an upper wall, a lower wall and a duct defined between the upper wall and the lower wall;
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- a back panel including a first hole, wherein the cooking appliance defines a first airflow path, air traveling along the first airflow path exits the flue and is deflected rearward through the first hole by the deflector, the cooking appliance defines a second airflow path, and air traveling along the second airflow path enters the duct from an area above the cooktop.
A method of reducing a temperature of a console of a cooking appliance including a cooktop, an oven cavity, a flue through which air exiting the oven cavity passes, a deflector configured to reduce heat transfer between the air exiting the oven cavity through the flue and the console and a back panel including a first hole, wherein the console includes a user interface for the cooking appliance, and the deflector includes an upper wall, a lower wall and a duct defined between the upper wall and the lower wall, the method comprising:
- causing air to travel along a first airflow path, wherein the air traveling along the first airflow path exits the flue and is deflected rearward through the first hole by the deflector;
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- causing air to travel along a second airflow path, wherein the air traveling along the second airflow path enters the duct from an area above the cooktop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.