Heat modulating food packaging material
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsJoshua M. Linton, Giorgio Grimaldi
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Abstract
An oven may include a cooking chamber configured to receive a heat modulating material (HMM), a radio frequency (RF) heating system configured to provide RF energy into the cooking chamber, and a cooking controller configured to control the frequency of RF energy provided by the RF heating system into the cooking chamber. The MINI may be configured to contain a food product and may include a thermally active section. The thermally active section may include a base matrix and a particulate material dispersed in the base matrix.
Claims20
An oven comprising:
- a cooking chamber configured to receive a heat modulating material (HMM);
- a radio frequency (RF) heating system configured to provide RF energy into the cooking chamber;
- and
- a cooking controller configured to control the frequency of RF energy provided by the RF heating system into the cooking chamber,
- wherein the HMM is configured to contain a food product and the HMM comprises a thermally active section, the thermally active section comprising a base matrix and a particulate material dispersed in the base matrix.
A heat modulating material (HMM) for use in an oven and configured to contain a food product, the MINI comprising a thermally active section, the thermally active section comprising:
- a base matrix;
- and
- a particulate material dispersed in the base matrix, the particulate material configured to absorb at least some RF energy provided in a cooking chamber of the oven to transform the RF energy into thermal energy for indirectly heating the food product, the application of the RF energy being directed by a cooking controller of the oven.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.