# US 2023/0408101 A1 · Cooking appliance comprising a cooking chamber insert for asymmetrically dividing a cooking chamber as well as specific vertical distances from a cooking food support

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- Number: US 2023/0408101 A1
- Document ID: US20230408101A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/035,962
- Filed: 2021-11-17
- Published: 2023-12-21
- Earliest claimed: 2020-11-20
- Assignees: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
- Applicants: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
- Inventors: Alexander Dinkel; Wolfgang Hörner; Katrin Horn; Ragnar Somdalen; Markus Roll; Robert Padel; Edith Wrehde; Stefan Schürf
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20230408101A1

## CPC

- F24C 15/16: Shelves, racks or trays inside ovens; Supports therefor
- F24C 15/166: {with integrated heating means}
- F24C 7/046: {Ranges}
- F24C 7/062: {on stoves}
- F24C 7/067: {on ranges}
- F24C 7/085: {on baking ovens}
- F24C 15/007: {Removable panels}
- F24C 15/008: {Illumination for oven cavities}
- F24C 15/322: {with forced circulation}
- F24C 15/325: {electrically-heated}
- F24C: DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES (exclusively for solid fuels F24B); DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION

## Abstract

A cooking appliance includes a housing and a plate-shaped cooking chamber divider which divides a cooking chamber into upper and lower cooking chamber regions. A cooking food support can be inserted into a cooking food support slide-in level in the upper cooking chamber region at a distance from an upper face of the cooking chamber divider, such that the distance between the upper face of the inserted cooking chamber divider and an upper face of the inserted cooking food support is between 10 mm and 30 mm, and/or the upper cooking chamber region has a fixedly arranged heating element, with a distance between the upper face of the inserted cooking food support and the heating element in the upper cooking chamber region and/or an upper rim of a boundary flange which defines a loading opening of the cooking chamber is between 160 mm and 210 mm.

## Claims

### Claim at position 1

1-11. (canceled)

### Claim 12

A cooking appliance, comprising:
a housing having a cooking chamber with a cooking chamber divider slide-in level;
a plate-shaped cooking chamber divider designed for positioning on the cooking chamber divider slide-in level to divide the cooking chamber into an upper cooking chamber region and into a lower cooking chamber region, with the upper cooking region positioned at a height which is higher than a height of the lower cooking region, said upper cooking chamber region having a cooking food support slide-in level; and
a cooking food support different from the cooking chamber divider and configured for insertion into the cooking food support slide-in level in the upper cooking chamber region,
wherein, when viewed in a height direction of the cooking appliance, a distance between an upper face of the cooking chamber divider, when inserted into the cooking chamber divider slide-in level, and an upper face of the cooking food support when inserted into the cooking food support slide-in level is between 10 mm and 30 mm, and/or
wherein the cooking appliance further comprises a heating element fixedly arranged in the upper cooking chamber region and embodied as a top-heat and/or grill heating body, with a distance, when viewed in the height direction of the cooking appliance, between the upper face of the cooking food support, when inserted into the cooking food support slide-in level, and the heating element in the upper cooking chamber region and/or an upper rim of a boundary flange which defines a loading opening of the cooking chamber is between 160 mm and 210 mm.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the distance between the upper face of the cooking chamber divider and the upper face of the cooking food support is between 19 mm and 24 mm.

### Claim 14 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the distance between the upper face of the cooking food support and the heating element in the upper cooking chamber region and/or the upper rim of the boundary flange is between 166 mm and 189 mm.

### Claim 15 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, further comprising:
a hot air system configured to conduct hot air into the cooking chamber; and
a wall defining the cooking chamber and having ventilation openings through which the hot air of the hot air system is conducted into the cooking chamber, with the ventilation openings arranged only above the cooking chamber divider slide-in level, when viewed in the height direction of the cooking appliance.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The cooking appliance of claim 15, wherein the hot air system acts only in the upper cooking chamber region when it is activated and when the cooking chamber divider is inserted into the cooking chamber divider slide-in level.

### Claim 17 (depends on 15)

The cooking appliance of claim 15, wherein the cooking chamber has at least two of said cooking food support slide-in level arranged at different heights and supplied with hot air at a same time by the hot air system, when the cooking chamber divider is removed from the cooking chamber.

### Claim 18 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the cooking chamber divider includes a base unit and a heating element arranged on the base unit and embodied as a top-heat heating body for the lower cooking chamber region when the cooking chamber divider is arranged in the cooking chamber divider slide-in level.

### Claim 19 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the cooking chamber divider includes a heating element embodied as a bottom-heat heating body for the upper cooking chamber region when the cooking chamber divider is arranged in the cooking chamber divider slide-in level.

### Claim 20 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the height of the upper cooking chamber region is greater by at least 10% than the height of the lower cooking chamber region.

### Claim 21 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the height of the upper cooking chamber region is greater by between 10% and 30% than the height of the lower cooking chamber region.

### Claim 22 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, further comprising a heating element fixedly arranged in the lower cooking chamber region and embodied as a bottom-heat heating body.

### Claim 23 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the cooking chamber is divided by the cooking chamber divider such that in one of the upper and lower cooking chamber regions a first type of heating is implementable and at a same time in the other one of the upper and lower cooking chamber regions a second type of heating is implementable and is different from the first type of heating, wherein the first and second types of heating in the upper and lower cooking chamber regions do not influence, or substantially do not influence, one another.

### Claim 24 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the cooking chamber divider includes a heating element having electrical terminal contacts which automatically come into contact with electrical mating terminal contacts when the cooking chamber divider is inserted into an end position in the cooking chamber.

### Claim 25 (depends on 12)

The cooking appliance of claim 12, wherein the cooking chamber divider includes a heating element, said cooking chamber divider including support feet which in the height direction of the cooking appliance extend further downwardly than the heating element of the cooking chamber divider.