Camera assembly for an oven appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorJames Lee Armstrong
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Abstract
An oven appliance having a camera assembly for providing images of food items within a cooking chamber includes a chamber wall and a separation panel defining an insulation gap therebetween. The camera assembly includes a housing defining a first end proximate the chamber wall and a second end proximate the separation panel which partially defines an electronics compartment. Viewing windows are positioned within the first and second ends of the housing and a camera is positioned within the electronics compartment and aimed through the viewing windows to generate images without being damaged during high temperature operation of the oven appliance.
Claims20
An oven appliance defining a vertical, a lateral, and a transverse direction, the oven appliance comprising:
- a cabinet extending between a top and a bottom along the vertical direction;
- a cooking chamber positioned within the cabinet and being defined at least in part by a chamber wall, the chamber wall defining a first opening;
- a separation panel defining a second opening and being spaced apart from the chamber wall to define an insulation gap;
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- a camera assembly for providing images of food items within the cooking chamber, the camera assembly comprising:
- a housing defining a first end positioned at the first opening in the chamber wall and a second end positioned at the second opening defined in the separation panel, wherein a sidewall extends between the first end and the second end to define an air gap therebetween;
- a first viewing window mounted within the first end of the housing;
- a second viewing window mounted within the second end of the housing and being spaced apart from the first viewing window by the air gap and
- a camera positioned outside the housing and adjacent the second viewing window.
A camera assembly for providing images of food items within a cooking chamber of an oven appliance, the cooking chamber being defined at least in part by a chamber wall and a separation panel being spaced apart from the chamber wall to define an insulation gap, the camera assembly comprising:
- a housing defining a first end positioned at a first opening in the chamber wall and a second end positioned at a second opening defined in the separation panel, wherein a sidewall extends between the first end and the second end to define an air gap therebetween;
- a first viewing window mounted within the first end of the housing;
- a second viewing window mounted within the second end of the housing and being spaced apart from the first viewing window by the air gap;
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- a camera positioned outside the housing and adjacent the second viewing window.
An oven appliance defining a vertical, a lateral, and a transverse direction, the oven appliance comprising:
- a cooking chamber defined at least in part by a chamber wall, the chamber wall defining a first opening;
- a separation panel defining a second opening and being spaced apart from and substantially parallel to the chamber wall to define an insulation gap having uniform thickness;
- a housing defining a first end positioned at the first opening in the chamber wall and a second end positioned at the second opening defined in the separation panel, the housing comprising a sidewall having a height substantially equivalent to the uniform thickness;
- a first viewing window mounted within the first end of the housing;
- a second viewing window mounted within the second end of the housing and being spaced apart from the first viewing window by an air gap;
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- a camera positioned outside the housing and adjacent the second viewing window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.