Cooking appliance and method for operating a cooking appliance
AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorReinhard Wiedenmann
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Abstract
A cooking appliance includes a muffle having walls to delimit a cooking chamber. The muffle has a front face with a loading opening which is delimited peripherally by a front edge of the muffle. A lighting apparatus has at least one first light source for lighting up the cooking chamber and/or for displaying information. The at least one first light source is activated in at least a first operating mode of the cooking appliance, and at least one second light source is activated in a second operating mode of the cooking appliance, with the second operating mode being different from the first operating mode.
Claims25
A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a muffle having walls to delimit a cooking chamber, said muffle having a front face provided with a loading opening which is delimited peripherally by a front edge of the muffle;
- a door configured to close off the cooking chamber when the door is in a closed state;
- a plurality of sliding food holders, each food holder being located at a different vertical position within the muffle and being horizontally slidable between a retracted position at which the food holder is entirely inside the cooking chamber and an extended position at which the food holder is at least partially outside the cooking chamber;
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- a lighting apparatus having
- a plurality of first light sources for lighting up the cooking chamber and/or for displaying information, a first one of the first light sources being activated in at least a first operating mode of the cooking appliance, the plurality of first light sources being disposed in the front edge of the muffle, and
- a plurality of second light sources, a first one of the second light sources being activated in a second operating mode of the cooking appliance, the second operating mode being different from the first operating mode, the plurality of second light sources being disposed outside the cooking chamber and in front of the front edge of the muffle when the cooking appliance is viewed from the front,
- wherein the first one of the first light sources is configured to project light into the cooking chamber to illuminate a first one of the food holders in the first operating mode, the first operating mode being when the first one of the food holders is in the retracted position, and
- wherein the first one of the second light sources is configured to project light at least partially outside the cooking chamber when the door is in an open state to illuminate the first one of the food holders in the second operating mode, the second operating mode being when the first one of the food holders is in the extended position at which the food holder is at least partially outside the cooking chamber.
A method for operating a cooking appliance having a cooking chamber, a door configured to close off the cooking chamber when the door is in a closed state, and a plurality of sliding food holders, each food holder being located at a different vertical position within the cooking chamber and being horizontally slidable between a retracted position at which the food holder is entirely inside the cooking chamber and an extended position at which the food holder is at least partially outside the cooking chamber, said method comprising:
- activating a first one of a plurality of first light sources of a lighting apparatus for lighting up the cooking chamber and/or for displaying information in a first operating mode of the cooking appliance, the plurality of first light sources in a front edge of a muffle;
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- activating a first one of a plurality of second light sources in a second operating mode of the cooking appliance, wherein the second operating mode is different from the first operating mode, the plurality of second light sources in the front edge of the muffle,
- wherein the first one of the first light sources projects light into the cooking chamber to illuminate a first one of the food holders in the first operating mode, the first operating mode being when the first one of the food holders is in the retracted position, and
- wherein the first one of the second light sources projects light at least partially outside the cooking chamber when the door is in an open state to illuminate the first one of the food holders in the second operating mode, the second operating mode being when the first one of the food holders is in the extended position.
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