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US 7,252,402 B2Granted
Lighting device for baking oven
AssigneeBSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
InventorsBernhard Götz, Walter Gramlich
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Abstract
A lighting device for illuminating the inside of a baking oven containing an oven muffle and a front flap or door including a viewing window. The lighting device having a light beam path inside of the front flap and at least one mirror arranged in the front flap for distributing light from the lighting device light beam path into the oven muffle.
Claims19
A lighting device for illuminating the interior of a baking oven, comprising:
- an oven muffle in the baking oven;
- said oven muffle accessible from the outside of said baking oven by a front flap;
- said front flap including a viewing window;
- the lighting device including a light beam path inside of said front flap;
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- at least one mirror arranged in said front flap for distributing light from said e light beam path into said oven muffle, said at least one light source arranged above said front flap, said at least one light source for emitting, along said light beam path inside of said front flap, a light beam that is intercepted by said mirror to be distributed by said mirror into said oven muffle.
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A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a lighting device for illuminating the interior of the cooking appliance;
- an oven muffle in said cooking appliance;
- said oven muffle accessible from the outside of said cooking appliance by a front flap;
- said front flap including a viewing window;
- the lighting device including a light beam path inside of said front flap;
- at least one mirror arranged in said front flap for distributing light from said lighting device light beam path into said oven muffle;
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- including a plurality of mirrors arranged vertically in the interior of said front flap and each mirror placed further down of another have a larger effective mirror surface.
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A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a housing and an oven muffle disposed within the housing;
- a front flap mounted for movement with respect to the housing to provide access to the oven muffle;
- a lighting device supported by the housing and being fixed with respect to the housing and including a light beam path inside the front flap;
- and
- at least one mirror arranged in the front flap for distributing light from said lighting device light beam path into the oven muffle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.