Cooking appliance having an antenna arranged outside the cooking chamber
AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsManfred Steinbacher, Markus Kuchler, Andreas Kaiser
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Abstract
A cooking appliance includes a closable cooking chamber including a leakage path, arranged between the cooking chamber and its outer surroundings, for electromagnetic waves, and a free-standing antenna, arranged in the outer surroundings of the cooking chamber, for data signals transmitted via the leakage path. The antenna is connected to a transmission and/or receiving circuit for the data signals.
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A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a closable cooking chamber including a leakage path, arranged between the cooking chamber and its outer surroundings, for electromagnetic waves;
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- a free-standing antenna, arranged in the outer surroundings of the cooking chamber, for data signals transmitted via the leakage path, said antenna being connected to a transmission and/or receiving circuit for the data signals.
A system, comprising:
- a cooking appliance comprising a closable cooking chamber including a leakage path, arranged between the cooking chamber and its outer surroundings, for electromagnetic waves, and a free-standing antenna, arranged in the outer surroundings of the cooking chamber, for data signals transmitted via the leakage path, said antenna being connected to a transmission and/or receiving circuit for the data signals;
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- a functional unit for arrangement in the cooking chamber, said functional unit including a wireless transmission and/or receiving device for the data signals,
- wherein, when the cooking chamber is closed, data signals are transmittable between the transmission and/or receiving device and a transmission and/or receiving circuit of the cooking appliance via the leakage path.
A method, comprising transmitting data signals between a functional unit arranged in a closed cooking chamber of a cooking appliance and a transmission and/or receiving circuit arranged in outer surroundings of the cooking chamber via a leakage path arranged between the cooking chamber and its outer surroundings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.