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US 12,016,105 B2Granted
Home appliance cavity
AssigneesBSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsSean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
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Abstract
A home appliance, in particular a home cooking appliance, includes a home appliance cavity used as a cooking cavity. The home appliance cavity includes a substrate that is a fibrous matrix and an inorganic resin that is thermally resistant. In certain examples, the home appliance cavity is a single unit construction, eliminating assembly seams. Also described herein are methods of making the home appliance cavity.
Claims20
A home appliance cavity, comprising:
- a concave outer shape formed from a shaped composite material, wherein the shaped composite material comprises an inorganic resin and a substrate configured to be impregnated by the inorganic resin, wherein the substrate is a single material sheet, and wherein the home appliance cavity is devoid of an assembly seam;
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- a bottom portion of the concave outer shape, the bottom portion being formed of the shaped composite material and having a trapezoidal shape with sloped portions configured to guide convective air flow.
A method of producing a home appliance cavity, comprising:
- conforming a substrate to a mold;
- impregnating the substrate with an inorganic resin to form an uncured composite home appliance cavity;
- curing the uncured composite home appliance cavity to form a cured home appliance cavity;
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- removing the cured home appliance cavity from the mold to form the home appliance cavity, wherein the home appliance cavity is formed from a single material sheet and is devoid of any assembly seams, and wherein the home appliance cavity comprises a concave outer shape with a bottom portion having a trapezoidal shape with sloped portions to guide convective air flow.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.