Cooking apparatus
AssigneeDongbu Daewoo Electronics Corporation
InventorHan Ju Kim
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Abstract
A cooking apparatus includes a cavity unit having a cooking chamber therein; a door on the cavity unit, opening and closing an opening of the cavity unit; a heater in at least one of upper, rear and lower parts of the cavity unit, generating hot air to be supplied to the cooking chamber; a cooking container including a housing unit which has an entrance through which hot air enters, and a support unit on the housing unit and on which one or more cooking objects to be cooked by the hot air are placed; and an agitation unit configured to directly contact the cooking object(s) placed on the cooking container, and mix or turn the cooking object.
Claims10
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a cavity unit having a cooking chamber therein;
- a door on the cavity unit, opening and closing an opening of the cavity unit;
- a heater in at least one of upper, rear and lower parts of the cavity unit, generating hot air to be supplied to the cooking chamber;
- a cook container including a housing unit which has an entrance through which hot air enters, and a support unit on the housing unit and on which one or more cooking objects to be cooked by the hot air are placed;
- and
- an agitation unit configured to directly contact the cooking object(s) on the cooking container and turn or mix the cooking object,
- wherein the agitation unit comprises:
- an agitating body fixedly engaged with side walls of the cavity unit or cooking chamber, and extending across the cooking chamber;
- and
- a contact plate extending from a surface of the agitating body, configured to contact the cooking object(s), wherein the contact plate comprises a plurality of plate portions on a distal end thereof, wherein the plate portions respectively deform their shape when the plate portions come into contact with the cooking object(s).
A cooking apparatus comprising:
- a cavity unit having a cooking chamber therein;
- a door on the cavity unit, opening and closing an opening of the cavity unit;
- a heater in at least one of upper, rear and lower parts of the cavity unit, generating hot air to be supplied to the cooking chamber;
- a cooking container including a housing unit which has an entrance through which hot air enters, and a support unit on the housing unit and on which one or more cooking objects to be cooked by the hot air are placed;
- and
- an agitation unit configured to directly contact the cooking object(s) on the cooking container and turn or mix the cooking object, wherein the agitation unit comprises:
- a rotatable agitating body mounted on side walls of the cavity unit, and extending across the cooking chamber;
- contact plates extending from an outer surface of the agitating body, and configured to contact the cooking object(s);
- and
- an agitation driving section providing rotational power to the agitating body,
- wherein each of the contact plates has a plurality of plate portions on a distal end thereof, wherein the plate portions respectively deform their shape when the plate portions come into contact with the cooking object(s).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.