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US 8,569,660 B2Granted
Cooking appliance and method of controlling the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsChae Hyun Baek, Jeong Ho Lee, Yong Soo Lee, Seung Chan Lee, Yang Kyeong Kim, Seung Jo Baek
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Abstract
A cooking appliance includes a heat source; an input unit configured to input a plurality of operational modes of the heat source for cleaning a cavity; and a control unit configured to operate the heat source in accordance with a mode input through the input unit, wherein the input unit comprises a selection unit configured to select a specific mode of the plurality of operational modes.
Claims10
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a heat source;
- an input unit configured to input a plurality of operational modes of the heat source, wherein the plurality of operational modes is a plurality of cleaning modes for cleaning a cavity of the cooking appliance;
- a control unit configured to operate the heat source in accordance with a selected cleaning mode input through the input unit;
- a memory that stores operational conditions of the heat source and reference times for the respective cleaning modes;
- and
- an informing unit showing a time according to the selected cleaning mode;
- wherein the input unit comprises a selection unit configured to permit a user to select one of the plurality of cleaning modes,
- wherein when the cleaning mode is selected, the heat source is operated,
- wherein the control unit stops the operation of the heat source when an operational time of the heat source reaches a predefined operation stop time,
- wherein the control unit determines whether a reference time corresponding to the selected cleaning mode has passed after stopping the operating of the heat source,
- wherein the control unit controls the informing unit to show a signal after determining that a reference time has passed after stopping the operating of the heat source, and
- wherein an amount of the reference times are different for each of the plurality of cleaning modes.
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A cooking appliance comprising:
- a cavity configured to define a cooking chamber;
- a heat source configured to generate heat to clean the cavity;
- an input unit configured to select between at least a first operational mode of the heat source to clean the cavity and second operational mode of the heat source to cook food in the cavity;
- and
- a control unit configured to control operation of the heat source in accordance with the first or second operational mode;
- wherein a porcelain enamel coating layer comprising a phosphate-based ingredient is provided on an inner surface of the cavity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.