Cooking appliance
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsChanghyun Lee, Seunghee Cho
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Abstract
Provided is a cooking appliance including a grille frame with a filter fixing structure. The cooking appliance includes: a cabinet; a hood flow path formed inside the cabinet; a blower positioned in the cabinet to form an air flow inside the hood flow path; a filter positioned on the hood flow path to filter the air flow supplied from the blower; and a grille frame including an outlet discharging filtered air to an outside of the cabinet, and forming a plurality of support spaces, wherein a lower end of the filter is inserted in and supported by one support space of the plurality of support spaces.
Claims20
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a hood flow path formed inside the cabinet;
- a blower positioned in the cabinet to form an air flow inside the hood flow path;
- a filter positioned on the hood flow path to filter the air flow supplied from the blower;
- and
- a grille frame including an outlet formed to discharge the filtered air flow to an outside of the cabinet and forming a plurality of support spaces,
- wherein a lower end of the filter is inserted in and supported by a support space of the plurality of support spaces,
- wherein the grille frame comprises:
- a guide portion forming a front of the grill frame and formed to guide the air flow to the outlet,
- an elastic support portion protruding from an inner side of the guide portion toward rear to support the filter, and
- a fixing support portion protruding from an inner side of the guide portion toward a rear and positioned above the elastic support portion, and
- the plurality of support spaces are formed by the elastic support portion and the fixing support portion.
A hooded microwave oven comprising:
- a grille frame including a flow guide formed on a rear side of the grille frame to guide a flow of air and forming a plurality of support spaces;
- a filter positioned on the flow guide to filter air guided by the flow guide;
- an elastic support portion protruding rearwards from the flow guide to fix the filter on the flow guide;
- and
- a fixing support portion protruding rearwards from the flow guide and positioned above the elastic support portion,
- wherein the elastic support portion is positioned to press a lower end of the filter upward or downward, and the plurality of support spaces are formed by the elastic support portion and the fixing support portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.