Domestic kitchen appliance with sidewall cooling
AssigneesBSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsAlfie Balingao, Suad Elkasevic, Brandon Kornegay
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Abstract
A domestic kitchen appliance is provided that has a housing having a side panel and a rear panel; a cooking chamber inside the housing; a door that is operable to access the cooking chamber; a corner flange located at a corner of the housing between an area in front of the housing and an area adjacent to the side panel; and a plurality of flange openings in the corner flange, the flange openings fluidly connecting the area in front of the housing to the area adjacent to the side panel.
Claims19
A domestic kitchen appliance, comprising:
- a housing having a side panel and a rear panel;
- a cooking chamber inside the housing;
- a door that is operable to access the cooking chamber;
- a flange extending from the housing;
- a plurality of flange openings in the flange, the flange openings fluidly connecting an area in front of the housing to an area adjacent to the side panel;
- an upper opening in the housing, the upper opening being located above the side panel and fluidly connecting the area adjacent to the side panel and outside the housing to an area inside the housing;
- a rear opening in the rear panel, the rear opening fluidly connecting an area adjacent to the rear panel and outside the housing to an area inside the housing;
- an air mover that draws air into the upper opening;
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- an air mover that draws air into the rear opening.
An arrangement comprising:
- at least two domestic kitchen appliances, each appliance comprising:
- a housing having a side panel and a rear panel;
- a cooking chamber inside the housing;
- a door that is operable to access the cooking chamber;
- a corner flange located at a corner of the housing between an area in front of the housing and an area adjacent to the side panel;
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- a plurality of flange openings in the corner flange, the flange openings fluidly connecting the area in front of the housing to the area adjacent to the side panel,
- wherein the area adjacent to the side panel of at least one unit of the two domestic kitchen appliances is the area adjacent to the side panel of a second unit of the two domestic kitchen appliances.
A method of cooling a side panel of a domestic kitchen appliance, the domestic kitchen appliance having a housing having a side panel and a rear panel, a cooking chamber inside the housing, a door that is operable to access the cooking chamber, a corner flange located at a corner of the housing between an area in front of the housing and an area adjacent to the side panel, a plurality of flange openings in the corner flange, an upper opening in the housing, the upper opening being located above the side panel, and a rear opening in the rear panel, the method comprising:
- drawing cooling air with an upper opening air mover through the flange openings from the area in front of the housing, over the side panel, and into the upper opening;
- and drawing cooling air with a rear opening air mover through the flange openings from the area in front of the housing, over the side panel, and into the rear opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.