Cooking appliance and controlling method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsTaehong YEO, Sungsoo KIM, Jaewon BYUN, Eunseo CHOE
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Abstract
Disclosed is an invention relating to a cooking apparatus and a method for controlling same. The disclosed invention comprises a locking mechanism that selectively restricts the movement of a latching mechanism for fixing a door in a closed position, wherein the locking mechanism comprises a lever provided so as to allow restricting the movement of the latching mechanism, a driving unit for moving the lever, and a door configuration key for generating a signal for activating the driving unit.
Claims15
A cooking apparatus, comprising:
- a main body configured to have a coking compartment therein and an open front surface;
- a door disposed at a front of the main body and configured to open and close the cooking compartment;
- a latching mechanism installed at the door in such a way that the latching mechanism is selectively coupled to the main body, and coupled to the main body to fix the door in a closed position;
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- a locking mechanism configured to selectively restrict a movement of the latching mechanism,
- the locking mechanism, comprising;
- a locker configured to comprise a lever provided in such a way that the lever is movable to a restricted position where the lever restricts the movement of the latching mechanism and movable to an allowed position where the lever allows the movement of the latching mechanism;
- a driving unit configured to move the lever;
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- a door configuration key configured to generate a signal for operating the driving unit.
A method for controlling a cooking apparatus comprising a latching mechanism configured to fix a door, which opens and closes a cooking compartment while moving to a closed position and an open position, in the closed position, and a locker provided in such a way that the locker is movable to a restricted position where the locker restricts a movement of the latching mechanism or movable to an allowed position where the locker allows a movement of the latching mechanism,
- wherein an opening allowance operation proceeds only when the door is in the closed position, at a time of manipulation of a door configuration key, and
- the opening allowance operation is an operation of moving the locker to the allowed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.