Abstract: An air filter mounting/demounting apparatus for a microwave oven having easy mounting and demounting of the air filter is provided. The apparatus includes a base plate having an inlet port through which air is admitted to serve as a hood, an air filter installed at a position corresponding to the inlet port and configured to filter foreign substances being admitted through the inlet port, an air filter bracket coupled to the base plate, an air filter holder at which the air filter is assembled coupled to the air filter bracket to enable a sliding movement along the guide rail, a latch unit configured to be coupled to the base plate to maintain and release engagement of the air filter holder aged, and a spring installed at an inside the latch unit to deliver an elastic force to the air filter holder.

Abstract: An air filter mounting/demounting apparatus for a microwave oven having easy mounting and demounting of the air filter is provided. The apparatus includes a base plate having an inlet port through which air is admitted to serve as a hood, an air filter installed at a position corresponding to the inlet port and configured to filter foreign substances being admitted through the inlet port, an air filter bracket coupled to the base plate, an air filter holder at which the air filter is assembled coupled to the air filter bracket to enable a sliding movement along the guide rail, a latch unit configured to be coupled to the base plate to maintain and release engagement of the air filter holder aged, and a spring installed at an inside the latch unit to deliver an elastic force to the air filter holder.

Abstract: An air filter mounting/demounting apparatus for a microwave oven having easy mounting and demounting of the air filter is provided. The apparatus includes a base plate having an inlet port through which air is admitted to serve as a hood, an air filter installed at a position corresponding to the inlet port and configured to filter foreign substances being admitted through the inlet port, an air filter bracket coupled to the base plate, an air filter holder at which the air filter is assembled coupled to the air filter bracket to enable a sliding movement along the guide rail, a latch unit configured to be coupled to the base plate to maintain and release engagement of the air filter holder aged, and a spring installed at an inside the latch unit to deliver an elastic force to the air filter holder.

Abstract: A microwave oven in which a power transmission transmitting driving force of a motor moves a tray right and left without direct contact with the tray. The microwave oven includes a support disposed between a bottom plate and the tray to support the tray and the power transmission transmitting driving force of the motor to the support such that the support linearly travels. The shape of an oval guide hole formed in the support is changed to adjust the stopping time of the support at the rightmost or leftmost side. The tray linearly travels together with the support when the support linearly travels. The microwave oven further includes a tray restriction device or a tray moving device for guiding the linear movement of the tray. The tray restriction device and the tray moving device are implemented by locking steps, grooves, protrusions, or rollers.

Abstract: A microwave oven in which a power transmission transmitting driving force of a motor moves a tray right and left without direct contact with the tray. The microwave oven includes a support disposed between a bottom plate and the tray to support the tray and the power transmission transmitting driving force of the motor to the support such that the support linearly travels. The shape of an oval guide hole formed in the support is changed to adjust the stopping time of the support at the rightmost or leftmost side. The tray linearly travels together with the support when the support linearly travels. The microwave oven further includes a tray restriction device or a tray moving device for guiding the linear movement of the tray. The tray restriction device and the tray moving device are implemented by locking steps, grooves, protrusions, or rollers.

Abstract: A microwave oven in which a power transmission transmitting driving force of a motor moves a tray right and left without direct contact with the tray. The microwave oven includes a support disposed between a bottom plate and the tray to support the tray and the power transmission transmitting driving force of the motor to the support such that the support linearly travels. The shape of an oval guide hole formed in the support is changed to adjust the stopping time of the support at the rightmost or leftmost side. The tray linearly travels together with the support when the support linearly travels. The microwave oven further includes a tray restriction device or a tray moving device for guiding the linear movement of the tray. The tray restriction device and the tray moving device are implemented by locking steps, grooves, protrusions, or rollers.

Abstract: A complex home appliance and a method of controlling and installing the same. The complex home appliance includes a single power supply unit shared by two or more component home appliances of the complex home appliance. The two or more component home appliances are controlled by a single control unit of the complex home appliance. The complex home appliance can be operated in a simultaneous operation mode in which the two or more component home appliances are simultaneously operable, and an individual operation mode in which only one of the two or more component home appliances is operable. The complex home appliance includes a mode-setting unit to set the simultaneous or individual operation mode. The complex home appliance includes a power cut-off unit which supplies power to the single power supply unit and cuts off the supply of the power in response to being electrically opened at the time of an electrical overload.

Abstract: A microwave oven in which there is substantially no difference between time when a linearly traveling tray travels from the right side to the left side of a cooking chamber and time when the linearly traveling tray stays at the right side or the left side. The microwave oven includes a linearly traveling tray having a guide channel or hole guiding a linear movement and a power transmission transmitting driving power of a motor to the tray. The guide channel and the guide hole have an oval shape and adjust the staying time at the rightmost or leftmost side in the traveling region. A rotation tray having a locking step formed in the lower surface thereof is further provided. The power transmission may include a linkage, protrusion and/or a roller, and their modifications. Food is uniformly cooked at any place of the cooking chamber, and a user can easily clean and reinstall the tray.

Abstract: A complex home appliance and a method of controlling and installing the same. The complex home appliance includes a single power supply unit shared by two or more component home appliances of the complex home appliance. The two or more component home appliances are controlled by a single control unit of the complex home appliance. The complex home appliance can be operated in a simultaneous operation mode in which the two or more component home appliances are simultaneously operable, and an individual operation mode in which only one of the two or more component home appliances is operable. The complex home appliance includes a mode-setting unit to set the simultaneous or individual operation mode. The complex home appliance includes a power cut-off unit which supplies power to the single power supply unit and cuts off the supply of the power in response to being electrically opened at the time of an electrical overload.

Abstract: A complex home appliance and a method of controlling and installing the same. The complex home appliance includes a single power supply unit shared by two or more component home appliances of the complex home appliance. The two or more component home appliances are controlled by a single control unit of the complex home appliance. The complex home appliance can be operated in a simultaneous operation mode in which the two or more component home appliances are simultaneously operable, and an individual operation mode in which only one of the two or more component home appliances is operable. The complex home appliance includes a mode-setting unit to set the simultaneous or individual operation mode. The complex home appliance includes a power cut-off unit which supplies power to the single power supply unit and cuts off the supply of the power in response to being electrically opened at the time of an electrical overload.

Abstract: A wall mounted type microwave oven including an improved exhaust and cooling unit to allow a direction of an outlet of an exhaust fan casing or a cooling fan casing to change while retaining or reducing an original size thereof. The exhaust and cooling unit includes an exhaust fan and a cooling fan, a driving motor to rotate the fans, the casings to house the respective fans, axes of the casings being eccentric to axes of the respective fans, and first and second brackets to hold the casings fixed to the respective fans, the axes of the brackets substantially coinciding with axes of the respective fans. A length between the axis of the cooling fan and a maximum radius region of the cooling fan casing is equal to or smaller than a half of a length of a side of the second bracket.

Abstract: A wall mounted-type microwave oven provided with a hood having an inlet port with an improved structure, thus effectively drawing exhaust gases and food odors produced from a plurality of gas burners placed below the hood. The wall mounted-type microwave oven includes a cabinet and a hood. The cabinet has, at predetermined portions thereof, an exhaust passage and an exhaust fan. The hood is mounted to a bottom portion of the cabinet, and has an inlet port to communicate with the exhaust passage. The inlet port is formed so that a width of an end of the inlet port near to the exhaust passage is less than a width of an end of the inlet port farther from the exhaust passage. Thus, the inlet port is formed so that an area of a portion of the inlet port on which a weaker suction force of the exhaust fan acts is larger than an area of a portion of the inlet port on which a stronger suction force of the exhaust fan acts.

Abstract: A microwave oven equipped with a toaster and a method of controlling the same. Particularly, the microwave oven equipped with the toaster is provided with a plurality of heaters and a plurality of buttons each corresponding to one or more heaters to selectively operate the heaters provided in the toaster, thereby minimizing a power consumption resulting from an unnecessary operation of the heaters. Further, the microwave oven equipped with the toaster and the method of controlling the same limits a consumption current by preventing the toaster and the magnetron from simultaneously operating, thereby being applicable to, for example, the wall mounted microwave oven having a limited consumption current.

Abstract: A wall mounted type microwave oven to efficiently cool a driving motor to couple an exhaust fan and a cooling fan includes an oven cabinet having air inlets and an exhaust outlet. the cooling fan and the driving motor are isolated from the exhaust fan communicating with the exhaust outlet, and communicate with the air inlet by a first partition plate of a guide unit. The driving motor is disposed between first and second brackets, which hold the exhaust fan casing and the cooling fan casing and, respectively, have center openings. Air is directed to the driving motor and introduced into the exhaust fan and the cooling fan through gaps while cooling the driving motor.

Abstract: A wall mounted-type microwave oven provided with a hood having an inlet port with an improved structure, thus effectively drawing exhaust gases and food odors produced from a plurality of gas burners placed below the hood. The wall mounted-type microwave oven includes a cabinet and a hood. The cabinet has, at predetermined portions thereof, an exhaust passage and an exhaust fan. The hood is mounted to a bottom portion of the cabinet, and has an inlet port to communicate with the exhaust passage. The inlet port is formed so that a width of an end of the inlet port near to the exhaust passage is less than a width of an end of the inlet port farther from the exhaust passage. Thus, the inlet port is formed so that an area of a portion of the inlet port on which a weaker suction force of the exhaust fan acts is larger than an area of a portion of the inlet port on which a stronger suction force of the exhaust fan acts.

Abstract: A mountable type microwave oven including a blower fan assembly installed at a rear-upper portion of a cabinet to cool a machine room and ventilate a cooking chamber.

Abstract: A mountable type microwave oven including a blower fan assembly installed at a rear-upper portion of a cabinet to cool a machine room and ventilate a cooking chamber.

Abstract: A microwave oven includes openings and microwave dispersing apparatuses which are arranged to align with a magnetron in a row below a cooking cavity so as to reduce the overall size of a waveguide and uniformly reflect high-frequency electromagnetic waves to all regions of the cooking cavity. The center of a first opening is disposed at a downstream location away from the magnetron by a distance corresponding to one of odd numbers times a half-wavelength of a standing wave in the waveguide, while the center of a second opening is disposed at an upstream location which is offset from another distance away from the magnetron corresponding to another one of the odd numbers times the half-wavelength of the standing wave in the waveguide.

Abstract: A wall-mounted microwave oven having an enhanced blowing capability. The wall-mounted microwave oven includes a cabinet which defines an external appearance of the microwave oven and an exhaust fan unit. An internal duct is provided in the cabinet. An external duct is installed at a predetermined position outside the cabinet so as to communicate with the internal duct. The exhaust fan unit is installed in the external duct and generates a blowing force which discharges contaminated indoor air to the outside of the microwave oven through the internal and external ducts. The wall-mounted microwave oven having such a construction allows a large-capacity exhaust fan and a large-capacity fan motor to be used without increasing the size of the cabinet. Additionally, a capacity of a cooking chamber can be increased without increasing the size of the cabinet.

Abstract: A wall-mounted microwave oven having an enhanced blowing capability. The wall-mounted microwave oven includes a cabinet which defines an external appearance of the microwave oven and an exhaust fan unit. An internal duct is provided in the cabinet. An external duct is installed at a predetermined position outside the cabinet so as to communicate with the internal duct. The exhaust fan unit is installed in the external duct and generates a blowing force which discharges contaminated indoor air to the outside of the microwave oven through the internal and external ducts. The wall-mounted microwave oven having such a construction allows a large-capacity exhaust fan and a large-capacity fan motor to be used without increasing the size of the cabinet. Additionally, a capacity of a cooking chamber can be increased without increasing the size of the cabinet.