Cooker having air cleaning unit
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJung-Eui Hoh
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Abstract
A cooker having an air cleaning unit to clean the air around the cooker. The air cleaning unit has an air sucking port provided on a top wall of a casing, and an air discharging port provided at a front of an upper wall of a cooking cavity. An air passage is defined between the air sucking port and the air discharging port. A filter unit and a blowing fan are installed in the air passage. The air sucking port is integrated into a cover that hooks onto an edge of an opening that is formed on the top wall of the casing. A duct body defining the air passage is mounted on the upper wall of the cooking cavity. Guide grooves are provided at both sides of the inlet port so that the filter unit is slidably and removably fitted into the guide grooves.
Claims22
A cooker, comprising:
- a cooking cavity opened at a front;
- a casing surrounding the cooking cavity;
- an air cleaning unit provided between an upper wall of the cooking cavity and a top wall of the casing to clean indoor air;
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- an air sucking port and an air discharging port provided on an upper portion of the casing to suck indoor air into the upper portion of the casing and discharge cleaned air from the upper portion of the casing to the atmosphere.
An air cleaning system comprising:
- an air cleaning unit having
- an air sucking port,
- a filter,
- a blowing fan,
- an air discharging port;
- and
- an air passage connecting the air sucking port and the air discharging port so that the air sucking port communicates with the air discharging port;
- and
- a casing having a cooker, wherein
- the air cleaning unit is provided within the casing,
- the air sucking port and the air discharging port are located on at least one external face of the casing,
- the filter and the blowing fan are located in the air passage, and
- the blowing fan draws air into the sucking port and through the filter and exhausts the air through the air discharging port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.