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US 7,157,667 B2Granted
Cooking device
AssigneeBSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
InventorsWalter Gramlich, Bernhard Goetz
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Abstract
A cooking device including a cooking area, a door for closing the cooking area and a lighting system for lighting the cooking area. The lighting system includes a light source and at least one reflector arranged in the internal space of the door, which reflects light from the light source into the cooking area. In order to reduce mechanical strain applied to the light source, it is arranged outside the door and emits light towards the reflector inside the door to be reflected into the cooking area.
Claims12
A cooking device, comprising:
- a cooking area having an opening;
- a cooking device door for closing off said cooking area opening;
- a light source;
- a lighting device for lighting up said cooking area;
- said lighting device including at least a first reflector;
- said lighting device including said first reflector arranged in an interior of said cooking device door;
- said first reflector reflects light from said light source of said lighting device into said cooking area;
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- said light source arranged outside said cooking device door and radiates light in the direction of said first reflector, wherein said light source is arranged in a selected one of an arrangement wherein said light source is arranged outside a sealed area formed between said cooking device door and a muffle flange enclosing said cooking area opening and said light source is mounted in said muffle flange, said light source is arranged under a muffle floor of a muffle flange enclosing said cooking area opening, said light source is arranged adjacent to a door hinge provided in the cooking device, said light source is arranged separated by means of a heat-protective element from a bottom-heating heater unit, and said light source is arranged in an air-conducting duct.
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A cooking device, comprising:
- a cooking area having an opening on one side thereof;
- a cooking device door for closing off said cooking area opening at said one side of said cooking area;
- a light source arranged outside said cooking device door and said cooking area and oriented relative to said cooking area such that no light radiated by said light source is radiated along a direct line-of-sight direction toward said cooking area opening;
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- a lighting device for lighting up said cooking area;
- said lighting device including at least a first reflector, said lighting device including said first reflector arranged in an interior of said cooking device door and said first reflector and said light source being oriented relative to one another such that said light source radiates light in the direction of said first reflector and said first reflector reflects such light into said cooking area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.