Battery-assisted cooking system in an oven range appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorEric Scott Johnson
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Abstract
A battery assembly for a cooking appliance includes a battery housing defining a battery compartment and a front opening for accessing the battery compartment, a battery mounted within the battery compartment and being electrically coupled to an electric heating element of the cooking appliance, an access panel removably positioned over the front opening for providing selective access to the battery compartment, and one or more airflow apertures defined in the access panel or along a portion of a perimeter of the access panel through which a flow of cooling air may flow into the battery compartment.
Claims20
A cooking appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the cooking appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a cooking chamber positioned within the cabinet;
- an electric heating element positioned in thermal communication with the cooking chamber;
- a battery housing positioned within the cabinet adjacent to the cooking chamber, the battery housing defining a battery compartment and a front opening for accessing the battery compartment;
- a battery mounted within the battery compartment and being electrically coupled to the electric heating element;
- an access panel removably positioned over the front opening for providing selective access to the battery compartment;
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- one or more airflow apertures defined in the access panel or along a portion of a perimeter of the access panel through which a flow of cooling air may flow into the battery compartment.
A battery assembly for a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance comprising an electric heating element, the battery assembly comprising:
- a battery housing defining a battery compartment and a front opening for accessing the battery compartment;
- a battery mounted within the battery compartment and being electrically coupled to the electric heating element;
- an access panel removably positioned over the front opening for providing selective access to the battery compartment;
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- one or more airflow apertures defined in the access panel or along a portion of a perimeter of the access panel through which a flow of cooling air may flow into the battery compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.