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US 8,975,562 B2Granted
Over the range microwave safety door
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsPatrick D. Galbreath, Brian Henninger
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for a safety door of an oven having glass therein with a plastic laminate. The safety door retains glass within the door in order to prevent glass from falling or being forced outside of the oven, which may cause injury.
Claims13
An apparatus, comprising:
- a magnetron that provides radiation;
- a heating cavity comprising a cavity wall with an opening exposing the heating cavity to the radiation for cooking an item therein;
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- a safety door providing access to the heating cavity for placing the item therein and having a glass window that is at least partially transparent to at least partially see within the heating cavity, wherein the glass window includes a first glass layer disposed on a front panel of the safety door, a second glass layer disposed on a rear panel of the safety door, and a plastic laminate bonding to at least one side of each of the first glass layer and the second glass layer, the plastic laminate disposed between the first glass layer and the second glass layer in the glass window, wherein the door is configured to retain substantially all glass of the glass window within the door and/or within the heating cavity at all times and during any break in the glass window.
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An over-the-range (OTR) microwave oven, comprising:
- a magnetron that provides radiation;
- a heating cavity comprising a cavity wall with an opening exposing the heated cavity to the radiation for cooking an item therein;
- a hood located underneath the heating cavity having an exhaust vent that ventilates air located underneath from a cooking source located therebelow;
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- a safety door providing access to the heating cavity for placing the item therein for heating and having a glass window that is at least partially transparent to at least partially see within the heating cavity, wherein the glass window includes a first glass layer located within a front panel of the door, a plastic laminate and a first adhesion layer bonding to the plastic laminate and the first glass layer to retain glass within the door at all times during any break in the glass window, the glass window further including a second glass layer located within a rear panel of the door adjacent the first glass layer and closer to the heating cavity, wherein the plastic laminate disposed between the first glass layer and the second glass layer in the glass window, the plastic laminate being bonded to at least one side of each of the first glass layer and the second glass layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.