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US 11,378,281 B2Granted
Home appliance having a low back rear vent trim
AssigneesBSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsBen Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Timothy Russell
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Abstract
A home cooking appliance includes a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing that is configured to guide flue gases exiting from an exhaust channel of a cooking compartment in an upward direction out of the housing. The rear vent trim includes a body, a back panel closing a rear side of the body, and a heat shield disposed between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim. The heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield.
Claims17
A home cooking appliance comprising:
- a housing having a cooktop on a top of the housing and a cooking compartment in the housing;
- an exhaust channel that exhausts flue gases from the cooking compartment;
- and
- a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing and configured to guide the flue gases exiting from the exhaust channel in an upward direction out of the housing,
- the rear vent trim including:
- a body having a front surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, and an upper surface, the upper surface including at least one opening in fluid communication with the exhaust channel, the at least one opening configured to permit the flue gases exiting from the exhaust channel to flow in the upward direction out of the rear vent trim;
- a back panel closing a rear side of the body of the vent trim, the back panel forming a back of the appliance configured to be adjacent to a back wall of a kitchen;
- and
- a heat shield disposed adjacent to the back panel, and between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim, wherein the heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield,
- wherein the back panel or the heat shield has a plurality of embosses and the heat shield is supported on the back panel by the plurality of embosses such that the heat shield is spaced from the back panel.
7 more elements
A home cooking appliance comprising:
- a housing having a cooktop on a top of the housing and a cooking compartment in the housing;
- an exhaust channel that exhausts flue gases from the cooking compartment;
- and
- a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing and configured to guide the flue gases exiting from the exhaust channel in an upward direction out of the housing,
- the rear vent trim including:
- a body having a front surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, and an upper surface, the upper surface including at least one opening in fluid communication with the exhaust channel, the at least one opening configured to permit the flue gases exiting from the exhaust channel to flow in the upward direction out of the rear vent trim;
- a back panel closing a rear side of the body;
- and
- a heat shield disposed between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim, wherein the heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield,
- wherein the rear vent trim includes at least one standoff bracket on a rearward facing surface of the back panel.
7 more elements
A home cooking appliance comprising:
- a housing having a cooktop on a top of the housing and a cooking compartment in the housing;
- an exhaust channel that exhausts flue gases from the cooking compartment;
- and
- a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing and configured to guide the flue gases exiting from the exhaust channel in an upward direction out of the housing,
- the rear vent trim including:
- a body having a front surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, and an upper surface, the upper surface including at least one opening in fluid communication with the exhaust channel, the at least one opening configured to permit the flue gases exiting from the exhaust channel to flow in the upward direction out of the rear vent trim;
- a back panel closing a rear side of the body of the vent trim, the back panel forming a back of the appliance configured to be adjacent to a back wall of a kitchen;
- and
- a heat shield disposed adjacent to the back panel, and between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim, wherein the heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield,
- wherein the back panel includes a plurality of first embosses facing the heat shield and the heat shield includes a plurality of second embosses facing the back panel, and
- wherein the plurality of first embosses are secured to the plurality of second embosses to support the heat shield on the back panel in a spaced manner from the back panel.
8 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.