Cooking appliance
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYeong Hyeok KIM, Sang Jun PARK, Sang Ho LEE
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Abstract
A cooking appliance capable of preventing a user's unintended rotation of a knob assembly includes: a main body including a control panel; a valve positioned inside the main body, and including a valve shaft being pushable and rotatable; and a knob assembly including an inner knob coupled with the valve shaft, and an outer knob being movable with respect to the inner knob in a first direction in which the outer knob approaches the inner knob, wherein, when the outer knob moves by a first push distance in the first direction, the valve shaft and the inner knob are prevented from rotating.
Claims1
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a main body comprising a control panel;
- a valve positioned inside the main body and comprising a valve shaft being pushable and rotatable;
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- a knob assembly comprising:
- an inner knob coupled with the valve shaft, and
- an outer knob being movable in a first direction in which the outer knob approaches the inner knob,
- wherein, based on the outer knob moving by a first push distance in the first direction, the valve shaft and the inner knob are prevented from rotating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.