Transparent Panel Patents (Class 126/200)
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Publication number: 20150020792Abstract: Provided is a cooking appliance that includes an oven cavity, at least one heating element for heating the oven cavity, and a door movable between an open position and a closed position for selectively providing access to the oven cavity. The door includes a first glass pane spaced from a second glass pane to define a space therebetween. The cooking appliance further includes a blower configured to move air through the space between the first glass pane and the second glass pane. The door includes a longitudinal axis that is substantially vertical when the door is in the closed position and the first glass pane and the second glass pane each form an acute angle with the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Tommaso Raggi, Robert Craig Bontrager, Ronald Gene Brant
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Publication number: 20140366862Abstract: Provided is a windowpane for a combustion apparatus in which a light-blocking layer containing an inorganic pigment powder and a glass powder is formed on a surface of a transparent crystallized glass plate and the light-blocking layer can sufficiently hide an adhesive, a gasket or the like used to fix the windowpane to the body of the combustion apparatus and which can reduce the occurrence of cracks due to heat in the light-blocking layer. A windowpane for a combustion apparatus in which a light-blocking layer containing an inorganic pigment powder and a glass powder is formed on a surface of a transparent crystallized glass plate, wherein the light-blocking layer contains 30 to 50% by mass of the inorganic pigment powder and 50 to 70% by mass of the glass powder and has a thickness of 1 to 10 ?m and the inorganic pigment powder has an average particle size of 0.8 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.Inventor: Shohei Yokoyama
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Patent number: 8875691Abstract: A stove system featuring a stove component with a burner and an oven. The stove component has a stove microprocessor and a display. The stove microprocessor is adapted to calculate a temperature of the burner. The display has a temperature indicator which functions to display a relative temperature of the burner. When the burner is in a first temperature range the temperature indicator is illuminated in a first color, when the burner is in a second temperature range the temperature indicator is illuminated in a second color, when the burner is in a third temperature range the temperature indicator is illuminated in a third color, and when the burner is in a fourth temperature range the temperature indicator is illuminated in a fourth color.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Inventor: Jean G. Saint Joy
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Patent number: 8857422Abstract: An oven door assembly is provided that selectively closes and permits access to an access opening of an oven cavity of the oven. The oven door assembly includes an outside door panel having a non-opaque pane, an inside door panel having a non-opaque pane, the inside door panel being located closer to the oven cavity of the oven than the outside door panel, and a middle non-opaque pane, and a shield fitted relative to the middle non-opaque pane for drawing heat away from the middle non-opaque pane.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2007Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventor: Suad Elkasevic
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Patent number: 8839781Abstract: A panoramic oven door which has a counter door structure which comprises a first outer section of counter door in the shape of a substantially rectangular structural frame, which has a support groove surrounding its inner perimeter border; a second inner section of counter door in the shape of a substantially rectangular structural frame, which has a coupling flange surrounding its outer perimeter border; wherein said first and second sections of counter door are coupled between each other by means of a plurality of coinciding supports or brackets formed over the same and joined by means of fastening elements; in such a way that said coupling flange of the second inner section of the counter door is made to coincide within the support groove formed in the first outer section of the counter door; and wherein additionally, an isolating thermal seal made of fiber glass thread woven in the shape of a flat hose is interposed between said coupling flange and said support groove once coupled, to avoid direct contactType: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Mabe, S.A. de C.V.Inventors: Jose Merced Vazquez Garcia, Ulises Hernandez Orduña, Gustavo Aguillon De Jesus, Guillermo Rocha Aguilera
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Publication number: 20140158109Abstract: A home appliance and method including an appliance body having an oven access opening; an oven door for selectively covering the oven access opening; and a window in the oven door for viewing the oven contents, the window having a treated window portion for obscuring the view of the oven contents behind the treated window portion, the treated window portion being fabricated using a window treatment apparatus for supporting a window for treatment, the window treatment apparatus including a support stand defining a window support area, a blocking element mounted to the window stand for movement into and out of a covering relation with the window support area, the blocking element having a window cover plate having a window cover area smaller in area than the window support area, with the difference in the area of the window support area and the window cover area defining a window treatment area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Brantley, Jason Campbell, Gary Hill, James O'Neal Taylor
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Publication number: 20140116412Abstract: The invention relates to: a glazing substrate, characterised in that it is equipped with a layer consisting of crystallites of at least 25 nm in size, directly covered with a layer consisting of crystallites of at most 10 nm in size; its manufacturing process; and its application to a low-E glazing unit or in solar control.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: SAINT GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Alexandre Popoff, Bernard Nghiem
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Publication number: 20130319395Abstract: A household cooking appliance including a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening. The opening has a seal surrounding a perimeter of the opening. A door covers the opening and is moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The door includes a door skin forming an outer surface of the door and a full glass inner panel forming an inner surface of the door. The full glass inner panel abuts the seal when the door is in a closed position. A latch retainer is coupled to the door skin and an oven lock is moveable between a lock position in which the oven lock engages the latch retainer and locks the door in the closed position during a self-cleaning process, and an unlock position in which the oven lock is disengaged from the latch retainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATIONInventors: Ben Braden, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20130319396Abstract: A household cooking appliance include a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening, the opening having a seal surrounding a perimeter of the opening, and a door covering the opening and moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The door includes an outer door skin forming an outer surface of the door, the outer door skin including an outer glass panel, a full glass inner panel forming an inner surface of the door, the full glass inner panel abutting the seal when the door is in a closed position, a middle glass panel disposed between the outer glass panel and the inner glass panel, and a middle glass support system that supports the middle glass panel at a predetermined position between the outer glass panel and the full glass inner panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventors: Ryan DeLozier, Russell Dorsten, Samuel Harward, Donald Hendricks, Rose Marie Parker
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Publication number: 20130319397Abstract: A household cooking appliance including a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening, the opening having a seal surrounding a perimeter of the opening, and a door covering the opening and moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The door includes a full glass inner panel having an inner surface that abuts the seal when the door is in a closed position and shock-absorbing means for absorbing and distributing a shock or an impact on the full glass inner panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATIONInventors: Ben Braden, Russell Dorsten, Donald Hendricks, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20130319398Abstract: A household cooking appliance include a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening, the opening having a seal surrounding a perimeter of the opening; and a door covering the opening and moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The door includes a full glass inner panel that abuts the seal when the door is in a closed position. The full glass inner panel includes a surface having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is adjacent to a first area within the perimeter of the seal surrounding the opening and directly exposed to heating of the oven chamber, and the second portion is adjacent to a second area outside of the perimeter of the seal and not being exposed to heating of the oven chamber. The full glass inner panel extends substantially from edge-to-edge of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATIONInventors: Ben Braden, Russell Dorsten, James David Green, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 8578925Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a door assembly having a main frame provided with an inner, central opening. A glass panel is secured to the main frame portion across the inner, central opening and an overlay member is adhesively secured to the glass panel through a plurality of adhesive elements. The overlay member includes top, bottom and opposing side sections that collectively define an outer, central opening. The adhesive elements establish airflow passages that extends longitudinally across the door assembly between the glass panel and the overlay member. The overlay member also includes first and second flanges that are arranged along the top and bottom edge sections respectively. Third and fourth flanges are provided on respective upper and lower edges of the outer central opening. The flanges, together with the adhesive elements, ensure the presence of the airflow passages.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2005Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Kelley, Russell L. Simms, II, Gregory S. Wade
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Publication number: 20130220296Abstract: The present invention relates to an oven door for a domestic cooking oven. The oven door comprises a first inner glass panel (10) in direct contact to an oven cavity (34), a second inner glass panel (12) plane-parallel to the first inner glass panel (10) and a void of air intermediate space (18) between the first inner glass panel (10) and the second inner glass panel (12). The oven door comprises further a reflective layer (22) at an inner side of the second inner glass panel (12) in order to reflect radiant heat from the oven cavity (34) and/or at an outer side of the first inner glass panel (10) in order to reduce radiant heat emission from the oven cavity (34). An outer glass panel (14) of the oven door is in direct contact to an ambiance (36). Further, the present invention relates to a corresponding domestic cooking oven.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.Inventors: Cedric Catalogne, Karl Leidig
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Patent number: 8490616Abstract: A built-in oven comprises a door and a ventilation system. The door structure comprises two vertical frame elements and an upper hollow frame element mounted on the vertical elements and on upper edges of two or more glass plates and having a front aperture adapted to be used as an handle of the door flush with the front surface thereof, the upper hollow frame element being used as part of the ventilation system of the oven.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Michele Venezia, Marco Giuliani, Cristina Mazzetti
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Patent number: 8464704Abstract: A combustion apparatus for the burning of solid fuel using a plurality of secondary combustion zones is disclosed. The combustion apparatus includes primary and secondary air inlets, an inclined hearth and a unique second air source which washes up a window in the combustion apparatus creating a floating flame effect and rendering the window self-cleaning. A series of baffles define a secondary combustion pathway which optimizes secondary combustion of exhaust gasses and particulate matter. Coaxial rear and top direct venting apparatus are also disclosed. The combustion apparatus provided combusts a wide range of solid fuel at a high level of efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2005Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Inventor: Stephen Charles Brown
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Patent number: 8464701Abstract: An oven having a central cooking chamber defined in part by a housing and in visual communication with a flame-producing element. The cooking chamber has a door with a transparent portion providing visual inspection of the cooking chamber and a view of the flame produced by the flame producing element. The cooking chamber has a heat source to provide heat to the cooking chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Wood Stone CorporationInventors: Tadeusz Karabin, Lawrence Byron Johnson
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Patent number: 8413649Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooking oven door including at least one door frame and at least one door panel. The door frame includes a U-shaped part with a center portion and two legs. The U-shaped part is formed as a one-piece plastic part. The door panel is inserted within the U-shaped part. The U-shaped part encloses three circumferential sides of the door panel. The U-shaped part comprises support elements on its inner side in order to hold the door panel in a predetermined position. At least one fixing element is attached or attachable on at least one free end portion of the leg in order to secure the door panel within the U-shaped part.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.Inventor: Mirko Capacci
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Patent number: 8405003Abstract: An oven has a plurality of walls defining an oven cavity, a light source disposed outside of a wall of the oven cavity, and an optical light pipe in optical communication with the light source. The light pipe has a central body portion disposed within the oven cavity, and an end portion extending from the central body portion, the end portion extending outside of the oven cavity and being in optical communication with the light source. The central body distributes light from the light source within the oven cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Timothy Scott Shaffer
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Publication number: 20130019854Abstract: An oven door is provided. The oven door includes a door panel having an air discharging opening part configured to discharge air flowing in the oven door, a door frame coupled to the door panel, the coupled door panel and door frame providing at least one air introducing hole in the bottom of the door to introduce air into the door, an inner cover located between the door panel and the door frame, the inner cover having an inner opening, the inner cover and the door frame defining a space to allow airflow, an inner glass located in the inner opening of the inner cover, and a glass holder supporting the inner glass. Air introduced through the air introducing hole flows through the space between the door frame and the inner cover at both lateral sides of the glass holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Inventors: Dongwan LIM, Kilyoung YU, Byoungwoo CHOI
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Publication number: 20130014742Abstract: Door for a domestic appliance, in particular an oven door, having a front glass (10; 40) and a handle (12; 42) for opening and closing the door, wherein the handle (12; 42) is attached to the front glass (10; 40) by means of an adhesive without any additional fixing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION N.V.Inventors: Andreas Trautner, Markus Schmid
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Publication number: 20120285437Abstract: Disclosed herein is a door of an electric oven, which has an improved configuration to prevent the escape of heat from a cooking compartment to the outside during cooking or self-cleaning of the cooking compartment. The door, which serves to selectively open or close a cooking compartment of an electric oven, includes a front glass installed to a front surface, a rear glass installed behind the front glass, and a porous plate interposed between the front glass and the rear glass. The porous plate serves to prevent the escape of heat from the cooking compartment to the outside and includes a plurality of view holes to enable observation of the cooking compartment from the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwang Soon KIM, Pung Yeun CHO, Dong Jin LEE, Je Hyoung RYU, Dong Jin OH
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Publication number: 20120216789Abstract: A panoramic oven door which has a counter door structure which comprises a first outer section of counter door in the shape of a substantially rectangular structural frame, which has a support groove surrounding its inner perimeter border; a second inner section of counter door in the shape of a substantially rectangular structural frame, which has a coupling flange surrounding its outer perimeter border; wherein said first and second sections of counter door are coupled between each other by means of a plurality of coinciding supports or brackets formed over the same and joined by means of fastening elements; in such a way that said coupling flange of the second inner section of the counter door is made to coincide within the support groove formed in the first outer section of the counter door; and wherein additionally, an isolating thermal seal made of fiber glass thread woven in the shape of a flat hose is interposed between said coupling flange and said support groove once coupled, to avoid direct contactType: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2011Publication date: August 30, 2012Inventors: Jose Merced Vazquez Garcia, Ulises Hernandez Orduña, Gustavo Aguillon De Jesus, Guillermo Rocha Aguilera
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Publication number: 20120167866Abstract: Mounting for a window in an oven appliance is provided so as to allow for thermal expansion during oven use. More particularly, an expansion zone is provided around the window such that, during heating of the window from oven operation, the window is allowed to expand without restraint that could cause cracking or shattering. Space can be allowed for both lateral and longitudinal expansion of the window.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Michael Thomas Chezem, Philip Ames Barber, John Mark Chilton, Cecil Clay Clements, Carlos Garcia
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Patent number: 8166778Abstract: The invention relates to a pane that has undergone a chemical toughening operation so as to have an alkali-metal-ion concentration gradient from its surface over an exchange depth of at least 100 ?m, a surface stress of at least 200 MPa, and a strain point at the core of at least 550° C. The pane can be used especially in the field of domestic cooking, as a pyrolytic oven door, stove, fire guard, flue insert, and more generally for separating two gaseous atmospheres at different temperatures. The pane is particularly resistant to heat shocks.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass FranceInventor: Franck Marandon
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Patent number: 8138459Abstract: A dual-heating oven includes a cavity heated by both microwaves and at least one of convection or steam, a source for lighting the cavity and a door for closing the cavity. The door includes a first internal sealing glazing, a second intermediate internal glazing, a metal screen sandwiched between the first internal sealing glazing and the second intermediate internal glazing and a third external glazing for general protection. The lighting source is mounted on the door substantially in the plane of the second intermediate glazing.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2006Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Premark FEG L.L.C.Inventor: Gerard Beausse
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Publication number: 20120060822Abstract: An oven door including a frame including a shroud and a pair of side rails for holding in place a glass pane; a hinge for securing the frame to an oven; and a mechanism for holding the oven door in a closed position relative to the oven, in which the glass pane provides a full view of the interior contents of the oven when the oven door is in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: SCHOTT GEMTRON CORPORATIONInventor: Albach R. Eberhard
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Publication number: 20120031389Abstract: An oven door includes an interior panel and an exterior panel. The interior panel faces the heating chamber and has a glass sheet for viewing the heating chamber. The exterior panel is affixed to the interior panel and includes a frame portion formed of plastic defining an aperture aligned with the glass sheet for viewing the heating chamber. A non-opaque panel is fixed relative to the frame portion and extends across the aperture. The non-opaque panel has an inside surface facing the interior panel and the exterior panel has a masking portion formed of plastic and integrally formed with the frame portion. The masking portion extends from the frame portion into the aperture along the inside surface of the non-opaque panel and defines a window for viewing the heating chamber through the glass sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Inventors: William J. McMaster, Gavin L. Jewell, David J. Murphy
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Patent number: 8104237Abstract: An insulating glass element for the at least partial delimitation of a combustion chamber, having at least two viewing panes, which have at least some areas a transparent glass or ceramic-glass material and are arranged spaced apart from each other while leaving an air chamber, and wherein a viewing area is created at least in parts of the air chamber. The two viewing panes are connected with each other by a temperature-resistant adhesive, and the adhesive encloses a viewing area of the viewing panes all around, or a spacing element, which runs around them at least partially, is connected with the two viewing panes in a material-to-material manner, preferably by a glued connection.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Hauke Esemann, Wolfgang Schmidbauer, Torsten Gabelmann, Claudia Stolz
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Patent number: 8091543Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a cooking oven, which is provided with a cooking cavity and a door adapted to close the cooking cavity. The door is provided with an outer frame and one or more glass panes supported by such frame along the periphery thereof. On the surface of at least one of the glass panes there are applied heating means, which include a layer of substantially clear, e.g. transparent resistive material, and means adapted to connect two sides of such layer of resistive material to appropriate terminals energizable by an electric voltage supplied from a source available inside the oven.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Electrolux Professionals S.p.A.Inventors: Udo Baumann, Dragan Raus
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Publication number: 20110240003Abstract: Household appliance (10, 40), in particular an oven, comprising a casing (12, 42), which defines a cavity (14, 44) having an opening (16, 46), and a door (18, 48) for opening and closing said opening (16, 46), wherein the door (18, 48) comprises a front wall (20, 50) and a frame (22, 52), wherein the frame (22, 52) comprises at least one window portion (30, 60) made of a transparent material and being visible from outside the appliance (10, 40), and in that an optical deflecting device (32, 62) is provided for projecting an image of the interior of the cavity (14, 44) on the window portion (30, 60).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION N.V.Inventors: Norbert Danzer, Arnd Hofmann, Abdel-Ilah Zbat, Martin Gasch
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Patent number: 7947374Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to sputter-deposited transparent conductive coatings (TCCs) that are capable of surviving the harsh environments of ovens so that they can be included, for example, in oven door applications. In certain example embodiments, zirconium oxide (e.g., ZrO2 or other suitable stoichiometry) may be used as a protective overcoat to protect an underlying Ag layer from corrosion in the atmosphere. In three lite oven door example embodiments, surface 1 has a TCC pyrolytically disposed thereon, surface 2 has a TCC sputter-deposited thereon and, optionally, surface 3 has a TCC sputter-deposited thereon. In two lite oven door example embodiments, surface 1 has a TCC pyrolytically disposed or sputter-deposited thereon, and surface 2 has a TCC sputter-deposited thereon.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Guardian Industries Corp.Inventors: Scott V. Thomsen, Jingyu Lao
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Patent number: 7897273Abstract: An appliance transparency, such as an oven transparency, includes at least one substrate and a coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate. The coating includes at least one metal layer, such as a metallic silver layer. The metal layer can have a thickness in the range of 80 ? to 100 ? and optionally or the coating can have a protective coating deposited thereon.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: James P. Thiel, Charles S. Voeltzel, James J. Finley
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Patent number: 7847219Abstract: An electric oven includes a door and a compartment having an internal space that is selectively closed by the door. The door has a cooling air opening oil a surface facing the compartment, and the compartment has an intake opening configured to receive air exhausted through the cooling air opening. A shield element prevents foreign matter from entering into the door through the cooling air opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Wan Soo Kim, Yong Woo Lee, Seong Ho Cho
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Patent number: 7836878Abstract: An appliance heat isolation system for attachment to a vent hood has a mounting support with an upper mounting flange and a pair of curtain mounting rails that support the top side of a heat isolation curtain is disclosed. The curtain has front, back, right, left, top, and bottom sides. The upper mounting flange can be attached to the vent hood using screws, or chemically or mechanically adhered. There can be J-shaped channels at the ends of the inner and outer curtain mounting rails that the curtain mounting means engage. The curtain sides have flexible support members. The heat isolation curtain has an upper and lower panel of opaque washable fire resistant material and a middle panel of clear washable fire resistant material.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Inventor: Nazih S. Agha
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Patent number: 7819113Abstract: A door assembly for a cooking apparatus is provided that prevents heat generated in a cooking chamber from being released to the outside while also being as thin as possible. The door assembly may include a glass support that supports a first glass panel on a front side, and a second glass panel on a rear side. The second glass panel may be supported by a seating protrusion and catching protrusions formed on the rear side of the glass support. A door frame may be coupled to the rear side of the glass support, with a third glass panel coupled to either a front or rear side thereof. A cover frame may be coupled to the rear side of the glass support to enclose the first, second and third glass panels and the door frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Jae Myeung Chin
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Publication number: 20100206290Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to sputter-deposited transparent conductive coatings (TCCs) that are capable of surviving the harsh environments of ovens so that they can be included, for example, in oven door applications. In certain example embodiments, zirconium oxide (e.g., ZrO2 or other suitable stoichiometry) may be used as a protective overcoat to protect an underlying Ag layer from corrosion in the atmosphere. In certain three lite oven door example embodiments, surfaces 2 and 4 each have an Ag-based TCC sputter-deposited thereon. The Ag-based TCC may have a sheet resistance of about either 4 or 5 ohms/square in certain example embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: Guardian Industries Corp.Inventors: Scott V. Thomsen, Jingyu Lao, Kevin O'Connor
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Patent number: 7749357Abstract: A molded sheet containing at least an oxidizable metal, a moisture retaining agent, and a fibrous material and having a content of components other than the fibrous material of 50% by weight or higher. The sheet has a thickness of 0.08 to 1.2 mm and a breaking length of 100 to 4000 m.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: KAO CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Masataka Ishikawa, Kunio Matsui
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Patent number: 7708007Abstract: A door assembly for a home appliance includes a door that opens and closes a heating chamber. The door may include a first plate and a second plate, the first and second plates forming a first air gap in the door for insulating heat in the heating chamber. Additionally, a valve may be provided in the door, the valve may selectively allow air outside the first air gap to communicate with the first air gap.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jong Sik Kim, Yang Kyeong Kim
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Patent number: 7703451Abstract: An oven door includes upper fixtures, lower fixtures and middle frames which are attached to a front glass of the door. One or more panes of glass are mounted behind the front glass and are spaced from the front glass. As a result, air can circulate through a space behind the front glass. In addition, a door handle is coupled to the front glass using a through-hole formed in the front glass, spacers formed on the upper fixtures, and screws going through the spacer and the through-hole, and into the door handle. Outside air introduced from a bottom of the front glass goes out through a side of a space contacting the front glass and thus cools only the space contacting the front glass. Since the heavy division members are supported by only the lower fixture, the oven door can be easily assembled and disassembled when damaged.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Suck Jin Bang
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Patent number: 7686009Abstract: Disclosed herein is an oven that is capable of discharging hot air generated when cooling a door and heat generated in a cooking chamber through the lower end of the door. The oven includes a door having at least two separated air channels. The air channels comprise at least one first air channel to discharge hot air generated when cooling the door through the lower end of the door, and at least one second air channel to introduce air through the lower end of the door such that the door is cooled. In the housing is mounted a circulating fan. Between the circulating fan and the air channels is connected a channel connecting unit. As the circulating fan is rotated, air flows along the second air channel to cool the door. Hot air generated when cooling the door is introduced into the first air channel through the channel connecting unit, and is then discharged out of the oven through the lower end of the door.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2005Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Sung Soo Park, Pung Yeun Cho, Cheol Jin Kim, Kyoung Ho Kim, Kil Young Lee, Sung Kwang Kim, Yu Jeub Ha, Yun Ic Hwang, Sang Hyun Kang, Seok Weon Hong, Tae Ho Kim
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Patent number: 7655885Abstract: An oven is provided. The oven includes a cavity, a door panel that covers the cavity, and a side frame that supports a side of the door panel. The side frame and the door frame form an outside air intake hole therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jong Sik Kim, Yang Kyeong Kim
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Patent number: 7654259Abstract: A fireplace comprised of a burning chamber having an opening to a room and a vertically lifting door having a top edge, a bottom edge and opposing side edges. The door narrows in width from the top edge to the bottom edge to provide a keystone-shaped door. A frame is fitted in front of the burning chamber. The frame includes guide tracks configured to accept the edges of the door. A drive mechanism is provided to raise and lower the door within the guide tracks. The guide tracks may further incorporate a high temperature gasket to prevent airflow and promote energy efficiency when the door is closed.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Inventor: Lawrence Royce Allen
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Publication number: 20100006086Abstract: There is provided a drawer type cooking device which enables a user to easily check the inside of a heated object storage unit from the outside through a door glass by preventing water vapor generated from an object to be cooked during heating from contacting the inner surface of a door with a descending air flow along the inner surface of the door. During the heating operation of the cooking device, outside air sucked from a front surface lower portion of a cooking device body 1 and delivered into a heating chamber 3 by the operation of a cross-flow fan 13 passes through a gap passage 18 between a ceiling 16 and a splash cover 17 from a back surface upper portion of the heating chamber 3, and flows as a descending air flow F6 along the inner surface of a door glass 10 of a door 2a. The descending air flow F6 is exhausted from an exhaust unit 33 of the cooking device body 1 through an exhaust window unit 21 formed at the front end of a heated object storage unit 2b.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Inventor: Masayuki IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20090255524Abstract: A built-in oven comprises a door and a ventilation system. The door structure comprises two vertical frame elements and an upper hollow frame element mounted on the vertical elements and on upper edges of two or more glass plates and having a front aperture adapted to be used as an handle of the door flush with the front surface thereof, the upper hollow frame element being used as part of the ventilation system of the oven.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: MICHELE VENEZIA, MARCO GIULIANI, CRISTINA MAZZETTI
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Patent number: 7547862Abstract: An electric oven includes a housing having a cooking chamber for cooking food and a component chamber containing components for operating the electric oven. A door is provided on a front of the housing for selectively opening and closing the cooking chamber. A suction duct introduces external air from outside of the housing into the component chamber, and an exhaust duct with a sloped portion discharges air from the component chamber to outside of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2006Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yang Kyeong Kim, Jae Kyung Yang
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Patent number: 7448374Abstract: A cooking compartment door of a cooking oven having a pyrolysis function in the cooking compartment, includes a borosilicate glass pane forming at least a portion of the cooking compartment door. The borosilicate glass pane is provided at least in sections with a colored layer. The colored layer provides impact resistance to the borosilicate glass pane by being applied to the surface of the borosilicate glass pane on the side opposite the cooking compartment. The colored layer is resistant to temperatures up to four hundred degrees Celsius and is not joined to the borosilicate glass pane surface by melting.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2005Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Klemens Roch, Michael Wagner, Frank Jördens, Bernhard Walter
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Publication number: 20080149086Abstract: A door control mechanism which is attached near the hinge region of a door to bias the door to a closed orientation, and after a prescribed location, bias the door toward an open location to a sufficient degree such that the door is noticeably open. The door control mechanism in one form may have a cam extension that engages a spring member to supply stored energy to and from the spring member to bias the door closed and to bias the door open after a prescribed amount of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Lawrence Byron Johnson, Tadeusz Karabin
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Patent number: 7294811Abstract: A heating cooking device includes a housing having a wall portion; a first base material provided in at least a portion of the wall portion; and optionally a second base material formed on the first base material; a heat ray reflector formed on the conductive base material, including a first transparent conductive film formed on the first base material and a second transparent conductive film that is provided on the first transparent conductive film, where the second transparent conductive film has a higher heat resistance than that of the first transparent conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Fujikura LtdInventors: Takuya Kawashima, Kenji Goto, Nobuo Tanabe
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Patent number: 7282674Abstract: A system for reducing discharges from an oven prior to opening an oven door. In particular, the system includes a housing forming a cooking compartment arranged within the oven. The system also includes a purge passage extending through the housing into the cooking compartment and a cover arranged over a portion of the purge passage to removeably block the purge passage. An expelling port is included that extends from the cooking compartment through the housing. A controller is configured to remove the cover from blocking the purge passage to inject air into the cooking compartment through the purge passage and displace substances within the cooking compartment through the expelling port.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Alto-Shaam, Inc.Inventors: William J. Hansen, Janus W. Bartelick
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Publication number: 20070204847Abstract: A door assembly for an oven includes a door configured to open and close a heating chamber of an oven, and a glass substrate removably mounted to a surface of the door facing the heating chamber. An oven includes a housing having a heating chamber formed therein for irradiation of microwaves into the heating chamber. A door is configured to open and close the heating chamber, the door having a filter that prevents microwaves from leaking from the heating chamber. A glass substrate is removably mounted to a surface of the door facing the heating chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Young Woo LEE, Wan Soo KIM