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US 2023/0417419 A1Published application
Cooktop apparatus and method of cleaning
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorsCharles Cardwell, II, Richard W. Cowan, Felix Conde Zelocuatecatl
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Abstract
One or more cooking elements of a cooking appliance may be controlled during a glass member-clean cycle to maintain a temperature within an oven cavity. One or more covers and/or one or more cooktops may include one or more glass members. The one or more glass members may be positionable between different configurations. The cooking appliance may include one or more stands.
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A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a housing including an oven cavity and one or more electric burners;
- one or more glass members positionable between a first configuration wherein the one or more glass members are disposed over the one or more electric burners and a second configuration wherein the one or more glass members are disposed within the oven cavity;
- a temperature sensor configured to sense an air temperature within the oven cavity;
- one or more electric cooking elements configured to generate heat within the oven cavity;
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- a controller in communication with the temperature sensor and configured to control the one or more electric cooking elements to perform a pyrolytic glass member-clean cycle within the oven cavity when the one or more glass members are disposed within the oven cavity in the second configuration.
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A cooking appliance comprising:
- a housing including an oven cavity and one or more electric burners;
- one or more glass members positionable between a first configuration wherein the one or more glass members are disposed over the one or more electric burners and a second configuration wherein the one or more glass members are disposed within the oven cavity;
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- one or more electric cooking elements configured to generate heat within the oven cavity to clean the one or more glass members when in the second configuration.
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A method of pyrolytic cleaning one or more glass members disposed over one or more electric burners comprising:
- providing one or more glass members in a first configuration disposed over one or more electric burners;
- positioning the one or more glass members in a second configuration in an oven cavity;
- sensing a temperature within the oven cavity of a cooking appliance;
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- with a controller in communication with a temperature sensor, performing a pyrolytic glass member-clean cycle within the oven cavity when the one or more glass members are disposed within the oven cavity in the second configuration by regulating one or more cooking elements that generate heat within the oven cavity to maintain the temperature within the oven cavity proximate a pyrolytic glass member-clean temperature setpoint.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.