Safety device for a microwave oven
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorMyoung-hwan Park
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Abstract
A safety device for a microwave oven capable of improving the assembly of the microwave oven by reducing a length of a door latch and thus securing more spacious assembly space for other parts of microwave oven. The safety device for the microwave oven includes a door key movably mounted on a door of the microwave oven and having a key switch portion protruding toward the front side of the cabinet; and a plurality of switches to be turned on/off in accordance with the reception/withdrawal of the key switch portion to selectively connect a power supply with a driving circuit, and one of the plurality of switches that is arranged in the innermost position of the device chamber is operated directly by the key switch portion.
Claims17
A safety device for a microwave oven including a cabinet having a cooking chamber and a device chamber, a power supply, a driving circuit, and a door coupled to said cabinet to open and close said cooking chamber, comprising:
- a door key movably mounted on said door, having a first key switch portion protruding toward a front side of said cabinet and inserted into said device chamber through said front side when said door closes said cooking chamber;
- said first key switch portion having a main body and a distal end extended from said main body, said distal end having an end surface and two opposite side surfaces spaced-apart from each other by a predetermined length of said end surface;
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- a plurality of switches turned on/off in accordance with said distal end of said first key switch portion to selectively connect said power supply to said driving circuit, said switches disposed within said device chamber to be spaced-apart from each other by said length and disposed to contact respective opposite side surfaces of said distal end of said first key switch portion when said distal end is inserted between said switches.
A safety device for a microwave oven including a door, a cabinet having a cooking chamber and a device chamber, a power supply, and a driving circuit, comprising:
- a door key movably mounted on said door of said microwave oven and having a key switch portion protruding toward a front side of said cabinet, said key switch portion having a distal end;
- a plurality of switches to be turned on/off in accordance with said key switch portion to selectively connect the power supply with the driving circuit, said distal end of said key switch portion disposed to be inserted between said switches to contact said switches;
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- wiring pins extended from a rear surface of said switches opposite to a front surface of said switches adjacent to said door and said front side of said cabinet, said wiring pins inclined with respect to a horizontal line of said door and said front side of said cabinet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.