Cooking apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHyoung-jun Park, Young-min Lee
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, a door, an input selection device provided on an exterior of the door, and a control panel provided in the door and operably coupled to the input selection device. The input selection device may include buttons which are illuminated by a light source provided with the control panel. A guide may be positioned between the control panel and the input selection device to guide the light generated by the light source to the input selection device and concentrate light on the buttons to illuminate the buttons. In this manner, the cooking apparatus may include a selection device on its door including buttons that are effectively illuminated.
Claims21
A cooking apparatus, comprising:
- a cooking cavity;
- and
- a door that opens and closes the cooking cavity, wherein the door comprises:
- a selector;
- an input sensor provided on a first side of the selector, wherein the input sensor senses an input from the selector;
- a light-emitting source positioned at a second side of the selector opposite the first side;
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- a guide positioned between the input sensor and the light-emitting source, wherein the guide guides light generated by the light-emitting source to the selector.
A cooking apparatus, comprising:
- a cooking cavity;
- and
- a door that opens and closes the cooking cavity, wherein the door comprises:
- a door panel;
- a glass panel coupled to a side of the door panel opposite the cooking cavity;
- a button pattern provided on the glass panel;
- a touch sensor coupled to the button pattern, wherein the touch sensor senses a touch on the button pattern;
- a control panel operably coupled to the touch sensor, wherein the control panel includes a light-emitting source;
- and
- a guide positioned between the touch sensor and the control panel, wherein the guide guides light generated by the light-emitting source to the button pattern.
A cooking apparatus, comprising:
- a cooking cavity;
- and
- a door rotatably coupled to the cooking cavity, wherein the door comprises:
- a door panel;
- a control panel coupled to a first side of the door panel;
- a front panel coupled to a second side of the door panel opposite the first side;
- a selector provided on the front panel;
- an input sensor provided between the selector and the door panel, and operably coupled to the control panel;
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- a guide that directs light generated at the control panel through the input sensor and to the selector so as to illuminate a plurality of selection devices provided on the selector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.