US 12,601,501 B2Granted

Cooking appliance

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorsDongmin Lee, Jaewon Byun, Ugjin Kim

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Abstract

A cooking appliance is provided that may include a main body having a cavity, and a door that opens and closes the cavity. The door may include a display module including a display unit disposed in front of the door, and a cooling flow path unit disposed behind the display module, and having a flow path formed therein through which air for cooling flows. The cooling flow path unit may include an air guide configured to guide a flow of the air introduced into the door, and a blower mounted on the air guide. The air guide may include at least one inlet disposed on an upper portion, and through which external air is introduced, and a mounting hole formed under the inlet, and in which the blower mounted.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A cooking appliance comprising a main body in which a cavity is formed, and a door that opens and closes the cavity, wherein the door includes:

a display module;
and
a cooling flow path unit disposed behind the display module, and having a flow path formed therein through which air for cooling flows, wherein the display module includes:
a display unit disposed in front of the door and configured to display videos or images;
and
an outer panel disposed behind the display unit and on which the display unit is mounted, wherein the cooling flow path unit includes:
an air guide configured to guide a flow of air introduced into the door, a blower mounted on the air guide;
and
an inner panel disposed behind each of the air guide and the outer panel, wherein the air guide is coupled to the inner panel to form the flow path of air, wherein the inner panel is mounted on the outer panel, and wherein the air guide is disposed between the outer panel and the inner panel.

6 more elements

A cooking appliance comprising a main body in which a cavity is formed, and a door that opens and closes the cavity, wherein the door includes:

a display module including a display unit disposed in front of the door;
and
a cooling flow path unit disposed behind the display module, and having a flow path formed therein through which air for cooling flows, wherein the cooling flow path unit includes:
an air guide configured to guide a flow of air introduced into the door, and a blower mounted on the air guide, wherein the air guide includes:
at least one inlet disposed on an upper portion thereof, and through which external air is introduced;
and
a mounting hole formed under the at least one inlet and passing through the air guide in a frontward-rearward direction, and wherein the blower includes:
a casing disposed in the mounting hole;
and
a fan rotatably mounted in the casing.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/943,540Filed 13 Sep 2022
Priority: KR 10-2021-014602428 Oct 2021
Published: US 2023/0136254 A14 May 2023
Granted: 14 Apr 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

F24C 15/006
Details: arrangements for circulation of cooling air
F24C 15/02
Details: doors specially adapted for stoves or ranges
F24C 7/085
On ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination: on baking ovens
H04N 7/183
Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast: for receiving images from a single remote source

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US 2023/0136254 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 May 2023
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