Steam oven
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorPung Yeun Cho
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Abstract
A steam oven having a steam distributing unit which is installed in the steam oven and evenly distributes steam generated by a steam generator into a cooking cavity, which is defined in a cabinet of the steam oven. The steam oven has the steam generator, the cooking cavity, a steam feed pipe to feed the steam generated by the steam generator into the cooking cavity, and a steam distributing pipe to distribute the steam from the steam feed pipe into the cooking cavity. The steam oven additionally has a sectional area control part provided in the steam feed pipe, to control a flow speed of the steam in the steam feed pipe.
Claims16
A steam oven, comprising:
- a steam generator;
- a cooking cavity;
- a steam feed pipe to feed steam generated by the steam generator into the cooking cavity;
- a steam distributing pipe disposed at an end of the steam feed pipe to distribute the steam from the steam feed pipe into the cooking cavity;
- the steam distributing pipe comprises a plurality of steam distributing pipes, of which outlet ends are directed to different areas in the cooking cavity, respectively;
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- the plurality of steam distributing pipes are arranged to direct the steam to spirally flow in the cooking cavity.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a cooking cavity;
- a steam generator generating steam;
- a sectional area control part, directing the steam from the steam generator into the cooking cavity, and controlling a flow speed of the steam;
- a steam feed pipe directing the steam from the steam generator into the cooking cavity, wherein the sectional area control part is positioned in the steam feed pipe;
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- at least one support rib connected to the sectional area control part and an inner surface of the steam feed pipe,
- wherein the sectional area control part is defined as an area between the sectional area control part, the at least one support rib, and the inner surface of the steam feed pipe.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a cooking cavity;
- a steam generator generating steam;
- a sectional area control part, directing the steam from the steam generator into the cooking cavity, and controlling a flow speed of the steam;
- at least one steam distributing pipe directing the steam from the sectional area control part into the cooking cavity and further controlling the flow speed of the steam;
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- the at least one steam distributing pipe directs the steam spirally into the cooking cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.