Cooking apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSooncheol Kweon, Sangwon Yun, Hanseong Kang, Minho Yun
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus including: a cabinet including a cooking chamber; an electromagnetic wave generating device provided to transmit electromagnetic waves into the cooking chamber; a photographing device provided to photograph an inside of the cooking chamber; an opening formed in the cabinet to correspond to the photographing device; and a resonance avoiding chamber provided between the cooking chamber and the photographing device to avoid resonance caused by the electromagnetic waves, the resonance avoiding chamber provided to reduce the electromagnetic waves inside the cooking chamber from leaking through the opening.
Claims21
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet including a cooking chamber, the cooking chamber positioned at an interior of the cabinet;
- an electromagnetic wave generating device to emit electromagnetic waves into the cooking chamber, the electromagnetic wave generating device being positioned outside the cooking chamber;
- a photographing device to photograph an interior of the cooking chamber, the photographing device being positioned outside the cooking chamber;
- a resonance avoiding chamber positioned between the cooking chamber and the photographing device;
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- a window member configured to protect the photographing device from the cooking chamber,
- wherein the resonance avoiding chamber comprises a pair of openings formed in the cabinet to allow an optical signal from the photographing device to pass through to the cooking chamber,
- wherein the resonance avoiding chamber is configured to reduce resonance caused by the electromagnetic waves and reduce the electromagnetic waves inside the cooking chamber from leaking through the pair of openings to an exterior of the cooking chamber,
- wherein the window member is positioned inside the resonance avoiding chamber, and
- wherein the window member comprises a first glass and a second glass spaced apart from the first glass, and the first glass and the second glass are between the pair of openings.
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a main body including a cooking chamber and an electrical equipment chamber provided at an upper side of the cooking chamber;
- a camera disposed in the electrical equipment chamber to face an inside of the cooking chamber;
- a resonance avoiding chamber having an upper side corresponding to the camera to photograph the inside of the cooking chamber and a lower side communicating with the cooking chamber;
- a window member configured to protect the camera from the cooking chamber,
- an intake port formed on a rear side of the main body to communicate with an outside of the main body;
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- a cooling fan provided to cool the electrical equipment chamber and disposed such that a suction side of the cooling fan communicates with the intake port and at least a part of a discharge side of the cooling fan faces the camera;
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- wherein the resonance avoiding chamber comprises a pair of openings formed in the cooking chamber to allow an optical signal from the camera to pass through to the cooking chamber,
- wherein the resonance avoiding chamber is configured to reduce resonance caused by the electromagnetic waves and reduce the electromagnetic waves inside the cooking chamber from leaking through the pair of openings to an exterior of the cooking chamber, and
- wherein the window member is positioned inside the resonance avoiding chamber and
- wherein the window member comprises a first glass and a second glass spaced apart from the first glass, and the first glass and the second glass are between the pair of openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.