Abstract: A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooking cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lower space formed below the cooking cavity. A fan provided in the rear space generates a cooling flow that cools components housed in the rear space. A cooling flow path extends from the rear space and into the upper space and lateral side spaces. Flow from the upper space enters the door to cool the door and is exhausted through a lower portion of the door. Flow from the lateral side spaces, which includes an exhaust flow from the cooking cavity, is guided to the lower space and exhausted. In this manner, the cooking apparatus can be completely cooled and cooking odors and heat appropriately exhausted by the cooling fan positioned in the rear space.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooking cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lower space formed below the cooking cavity. A fan provided in the rear space generates a cooling flow that cools components housed in the rear space. A cooling flow path extends from the rear space and into the upper space and lateral side spaces. Flow from the upper space enters the door to cool the door and is exhausted through a lower portion of the door. Flow from the lateral side spaces, which includes an exhaust flow from the cooking cavity, is guided to the lower space and exhausted. In this manner, the cooking apparatus can be completely cooled and cooking odors and heat appropriately exhausted by the cooling fan positioned in the rear space.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooling cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lower space formed below the cooking cavity. A fan provided in the rear space generates a cooling flow that cools components housed in the rear space. A cooling flow path extends from the rear space and into the upper space and lateral side spaces. Flow from the upper space enters the door to cool the door and is exhausted through a lower portion of the door. Flow from the lateral side spaces, which includes an exhaust flow from the cooking cavity, is guided to the lower space and exhausted. In this manner, the cooking apparatus can be completely cooled and cooking odors and heat appropriately exhausted by the cooling fan positioned in the rear space.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes at least one heating element; a heat sink connected to the heating element, to radiate heat generated by the heating element; a cooling fan located at one side of the heat sink, to blow cooling air to the heat sink; and a flow guide covering at least a portion of the heat sink and guiding a portion of the cooling air to flow to the heating element.

Abstract: An air flow system in oven is provided. The structure includes: a cavity for housing food; a ventilation fan provided at an electronic equipment chamber outside of the cavity; a first intake port provided at a front and upper surface of the microwave oven; a lower barrier for partitioning a lower space of the cavity; an outlet duct provided at one side of the lower barrier, for allowing a flow of hot air using the ventilation fan; an outlet space provided at the other side of the lower barrier, for exhausting an internal air of the cavity; a plurality of front outlet ports provided at a front and lower surface of the microwave oven, for exhausting hot air of the outlet duct and the outlet space; and a communication port provided at one side of the lower barrier, for communicating the outlet duct with the outlet space.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a main cavity and a ventilation system. A cavity vent extends between the cooking appliance and the ventilation system such that the ventilation system is in fluid communication with the main cavity to expel an exhaust of gases. A chimney is connected above the cavity vent and includes venturi zone therein, wherein the cavity vent is coupled to the chimney at the venturi zone.

Abstract: A microwave oven for use in cooking food having a door and door mounted controls and a cooling system where the door mounted controls are disclosed. The microwave oven having an external enclosure defining an outer cabinet and an oven cavity supported within the external enclosure where the oven cavity has a front access opening. The door is rotatably supported adjacent the external enclosure for selectively closing the access opening. A control unit is mounted within the door and a ventilation cooling path is formed within the door for cooling the control unit mounted with the door. A blower is supported within the external enclosure for directing an air flow toward the door and into the ventilation cooling path. The microwave can further include a housing which is supported within the door for enclosing the control unit and where the housing forms part of the ventilation cooling path.

Abstract: When a cooking apparatus body, such as a microwave oven, is installed in a kitchen cabinet, a power cord connected to a commercial power source from the back of the kitchen cabinet is folded and stored in a storage space provided between a shelf section, which is provided as part of an upper wall of the cooking apparatus body, and a ceiling section of the kitchen cabinet by the rigidity of the power cord. Since the power cord is not caught between a rear wall of the cooking apparatus body and a back wall of the kitchen cabinet, the depth of the cooking apparatus body can be increased.

Abstract: A microwave oven including a component compartment and a cooking compartment each including a discharging part to discharge air in the cooking compartment through the cooking compartment through portion; a supplying fan introducing the air to the component compartment through portion to cool the component compartment; a discharging fan introducing the air in the cooking compartment to the discharging part through the cooking compartment through portion; a fan motor between the supplying fan and the discharging fan to operate the supplying fan and the discharging fan; and an interfering part to interfere with the fan assembly when at least one of the supplying fan and the discharging fan is not in a predetermined position corresponding to the component compartment through portion and the discharging part.

Abstract: A combination microwave and impingement heating cooking oven, wherein an upper blowing port blowing hot air in vertical direction and a lateral blowing port for blowing hot air in horizontal direction are provided in a cooking chamber, the upper blowing port is provided in the ceiling wall of the cooking chamber, the lateral blowing port is provided in one of the right and left inside walls thereof, and a suction port is provided in the bottom inside wall thereof in the form of collected perforations, air in the cooking chamber sucked from the suction port is fed to an upper duct and a lateral duct, heated by an upper heater and a lateral heater, respectively, and blown from the upper blowing port and the lateral blowing port, and the distribution of the perforations of the upper blowing port is made such that the distribution of the perforations at a position where the air blows toward air current from the lateral blowing port to a cooked object is made coarser than that at the other positions so that the ai

Abstract: A microwave oven including a component chamber penetrating part fluidly communicating with a component chamber, a cooking chamber penetrating part fluidly communicating with a cooking chamber, a discharging part discharging air within the cooking chamber through the cooking chamber penetrating part, and a fan assembly, including an inhaling fan ventilating the air into the component chamber penetrating part so as to cool the component chamber, a discharging fan ventilating the air within the cooking chamber into the discharging part through the cooking chamber penetrating part, and a fan motor provided between and driving the inhaling fan and the discharging fan. A detachment preventing part is provided on an inhaling fan cover and/or a discharging fan cover to prevent either of these covers from being detached from the fan assembly.

Abstract: A microwave-excited ultraviolet lamp system includes a microwave chamber supplied with cooling air from an air source. At least one of a pressure sensor or a temperature sensor is positioned within the system to sense a pressure associated with the flow of cooling air or a temperature of the lamp system. A control receives a signal from the sensor and is operable to adjust the flow of cooling air from the source to obtain a desired cooling air flow rate.

Abstract: To provide a microwave baking furnace in which an inner wall which constitutes a heating element partitioning a baking chamber is prevented from being damaged due to a thermal shock, and the life time thereof can be extended. A microwave baking furnace 31 includes a partition wall 35 of a heating element 33 which partitions a baking chamber and which has an inner wall 35b made of a material self-heating by microwave radiation and transmitting part of microwaves radiated thereto, and an outer wall 35a made of an insulating material permitting the microwaves to be transmitted therethrough and covering an outer circumference of the inner wall 35b. A clearance 39, which serves as a convection path of heat inside the baking chamber 23, is secured between the inner wall 35a and the outer wall 35a. The inner wall 35b is attached to the outer wall 35a such that it can move relative to the outer wall 35a by a predetermined distance in all directions.

Abstract: A cooking oven, wherein air in a cooking chamber is sucked into a blower on the outside of the cooking chamber and fed to an upper duct and a lateral duct, air current led into the upper duct is heated by an upper heater and re-circulated from an upper blowing port to the cooking chamber, a catalyst block heated by a catalyst heating heater is disposed in the upper duct to decompose lamp black and smell substances contained in the air current, catalyst paint is applied onto the inner wall surface of the upper duct to reinforce a performance for decomposing the lamp black and smell substances, both the lateral duct and the upper duct are formed in the same structure, the distributions of heating volumes of the upper heater and the lateral heater in the cross sections of the upper duct and the lateral duct are set so that larger heating volumes are generated on larger air volume sides according to the air volume distributions in the cross sections of the ducts, and the catalyst block is also disposed in the cro

Abstract: A microwave oven includes a main body, a door opening and closing the main body, and a control panel placed in one side of the main body and provided with a plurality of function operators. A guide line is provided on the control panel and lights up to guide manipulation order of the function operator.

Abstract: Microwave oven including a base plate (100), a front plate (110) and a rear plate (130) vertically mounted at front and rear edges of the base plate (100), an inner case (200) between the front plate (110) and the rear plate (130) having a curved rear part to form a cooking chamber (200a) therein, an outfit chamber (400) at one side of the inner case (200) having various components such as a magnetron (410) and fan (430) mounted therein, and a convection part (300)mounted in rear of the inner case (200) for providing heat to the cooking chamber (200a), thereby providing a microwave oven which has a good performance even with a small size.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high frequency heating apparatus having a structure, which can be mounted/dismounted an air-exhausting grille without any tools. In this apparatus, an air-exhausting grille is arranged by that a fixing claw portion having a bent Z-shape, a fixing hooking portion having a concave notch, and a magnetic joint plate are arranged, whereas a main body located opposite to the air-exhausting grille is arranged by that a slit hole, a hooking flange, and a magnetic fixing plate are arranged. As a result, since the magnetic joint plate is absorbed with the magnetic fixing plate to be fixed with each other, the mounting/dismounting work capability of the air-exhausting grille can be improved without using the tool in a simple manner, and furthermore, a clean cooking appliance can be secured, while the cooking appliance can be readily cleaned.

Abstract: A microwave oven including: a main casing forming a component compartment and a cooking compartment and formed with a component compartment through portion communicating with the component compartment; a fan assembly coupled to the main casing, and including an exhaling fan blowing air toward the component compartment through portion to cool the component compartment and a fan motor driving the exhaling fan; and a guide unit mounted to the component compartment through portion and guiding the air blown by the exhaling fan toward a heating component accommodated in the component compartment.

Abstract: A microwave burning furnace including a housing constituted by a metal on which a microwave is to be irradiated, a metallic door provided in the housing, a burning chamber provided in the housing and surrounded by a material having a low microwave absorption characteristic and a high heat insulating property, and microwave generating means, wherein the burning chamber includes a heater element constituted by at least two types of heating materials having a heating material for a high temperature region which automatically generates a heat mainly in the high temperature region to have a burning temperature by an irradiation of a microwave and a heating material for a low temperature region which automatically generates a heat mainly in the low temperature region including an ordinary temperature.

Abstract: A heating apparatus includes an inverter power supply for driving the high frequency generating device, a holding member for holding the inverter power supply and cooling fan for cooling down the inverter power supply. The holding member is provided with a holding portion for holding the inverter power supply and an air guide portion for guiding cooling air from the cooling fan toward the inverter power supply, and the air guide portion covers the inverter power supply and guides the cooling air in a manner that a semiconductor switching device and a high voltage transformer of the inverter power supply are primarily cooled down.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for binder removal and sintering of materials such as ceramic materials and products, LTCC intervals, solid oxide fuel cells and powder metals. A combination of microwave and convection/radiation heating is employed for binder removal and sintering. Preferably, the microwave heating is accomplished using a variable or multi-frequency microwave source. A gas atmosphere is provided in the furnace chamber by one or more eductors which produces a high volume gas circulation in the furnace chamber to achieve a highly uniform gas environment and temperature. The process in accordance with the invention controls the heating cycle, the heat sources and thermal profile depending upon the composition of the particular material being processed. The thermal processing can be accomplished in a batch furnace in which a product is loaded for processing and unloaded after processing.

Abstract: A filter system for a wall mounted type microwave oven, which has an external enclosure surrounding an oven cavity. The external enclosure includes a bottom closure wall having a suction opening. The external enclosure also includes a top vent opening. An air exhaust path is formed between the external enclosure and the oven cavity wherein air drawn into the suction opening passes through the air exhaust path and is exhausted through the top vent opening. A first filter is provided on the suction side of the air exhaust path and a second filter may be provided on the exhaust side of the air exhaust path. In particular, the first filter may be provided adjacent the suction opening and a second filter may be provided adjacent the top vent opening, such that the first filter is provided at the inlet of the air exhaust path and the second filter is provided at the outlet of the air exhaust path.

Abstract: An over-the-range (OTR) microwave oven includes a main body installed above a cooking source of a gas range and has therein a cavity and an electric equipment chamber in which a magnetron is located. An air exhaust path is installed inside the main body and provides a path through which air generated from the cooking source which is introduced through a suction port formed at the bottom of the main body by a suction force of a blower installed at the main body is exhausted to the outside of the main body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an over-the-range. The over-the-range including: a cavity having an electronic equipment chamber at one side, and within which cooking is performed; a door for opening and closing a cooking chamber within the cavity; a front grill part disposed at the upper side of the cavity and the upper side of the door, for air circulation; and a guide grill part combined to the front grill part such that the guide grill part can be transferred in the front and rear directions in a drawer type to suck and exhaust polluted air at a periphery of the cavity.

Abstract: A cooking appliance has a configuration that allows the heating item mounting unit of a heating chamber to be pulled out, and that can prevent generation of discharge failure by microwaves, without having to form a slide mechanism with a component or material that has high heat-resistance and fire-resistance. The cooking appliance includes a main unit with a heating chamber, a drawer unit arranged movable in the main unit so as to be pulled out from the heating chamber of the main unit, and a slide rail for moving the drawer unit in the main unit. The slide rail is provided outside the heating chamber.

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 microwave oven including a fixing member having an improved structure for fixing an oven body to a vertical wall. The wall-mounted microwave oven achieves a reduction in manufacturing costs and convenient and simple manufacturing, transporting and installing processes. The wall-mounted microwave oven also includes a sheet adapted to set an accurate mounting position for the fixing member, in which the sheet has a size corresponding to that of the oven body and is made of paper or a similar material. The fixing member is provided with fixing holes. The sheet is provided with fixing position marks indicating fixing positions where screws have to be fastened to the wall through respective fixing holes. The fixing member is also provided with hooks respectively engaged with hook holes formed at a lower end of the oven body.

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 combined microwave oven and hood is provided. The combined microwave oven and hood includes a cavity assembly including a cavity and an electronic equipment room disposed at one side of the cavity, a blower for generating an absorptive power of contaminated air, a filter for filtering the contaminated air absorbed through the blower, and a drawer type air curtain module, which is transferred to a front side of the cavity assembly as operated.

Abstract: A heating cooker which evenly heats or cooks food, and is easily cleaned, includes a cabinet to define a cooking cavity therein. The cooking cavity is open at a front thereof. A fan chamber is defined by recessing a rear wall of the cooking cavity at a predetermined area to a predetermined depth. An air circulation fan and a heater are installed in the fan chamber. The air circulation fan circulates air of the cooking cavity. The heater heats the air in the fan chamber. A chamber cover is mounted to the rear wall of the cooking cavity to cover an open front of the fan chamber. The chamber cover has a plurality of air suction ports at a central area thereof, with a plurality of air distribution ports provided along an edge of the chamber cover to guide the air from the fan chamber to the edge of the chamber cover so as to discharge the air to the cooking cavity.

Abstract: An apparatus for sterilizing objects has a sterilization chamber and a microwave source for applying microwave radiation to objects inside the sterilization chamber.

Abstract: A wall-mounted microwave oven in which a bottom plate adapted to be mounted to a lower end of an oven body is easily detachable. The wall-mounted microwave oven includes a coupling unit for mounting the bottom plate to the lower end of the oven body. The coupling unit includes a plurality of engagement slots formed through the lower end of the oven body at positions spaced apart from one another, respectively, and a plurality of engagement hooks provided on the bottom plate at positions corresponding to the positions of the engagement slots, and adapted to be engaged with the engagement slots in a state of being inserted into the engagement slots, respectively. Since the mounting of the bottom plate to the oven body is achieved by engagement between the engagement hooks and the engagement slots, it is possible to mount and separate the bottom plate easily.

Abstract: A high-frequency heating apparatus with a steam generating function, which heat-treats a to-be-heated object by supplying at least high-frequency waves or steam to a heating chamber 11 that accommodates the object. This high-frequency heating apparatus has a high frequency wave generating portion 13, a steam generating portion 15 for generating steam in the heating chamber 11, and a circulating fan 17 for agitating air in the heating chamber 11. Moreover, the high-frequency heating apparatus has a chamber air heater 19 for heating air circulating in the heating chamber 11. The steam generating portion 15 generates steam by heating an evaporating dish 35 that has a water storing recess.

Abstract: A wall-mounted type microwave oven includes an oven body having a cooking chamber and an electrical component compartment which are isolated from each other, an exhaust flow path which is extended between a bottom and a top of the oven body to exhaust gas positioned below the oven body to the outside, an exhaust fan assembly which is provided at an outlet of the exhaust flow path, a convection fan which is provided at a side wall of the cooking chamber to forcibly circulate air in the cooking chamber, a convection motor which drives the convection fan, and a cooling flow path which cools the convection motor using the exhaust fan assembly. The exhaust fan assembly communicates with the outside of the microwave oven at an end thereof and is extended at the other end thereof to an inlet of the cooling flow path.

Abstract: Disclosed is a microwave oven with an air cleaning function. The microwave oven includes an air cleaning button formed on a control panel of the microwave oven, a controller for determining an input signal from the air cleaning button and generating a driving signal, and a fan driving part for operating a fan disposed in the microwave oven to allow intake air to pass through a filter, thereby removing pollutants contained in the intake air.

Abstract: A wall-mounted type microwave oven selectively changes a discharging direction of air from a cooking chamber to the outside of a room and to the inside of the room. The microwave oven includes an oven body having a cooking chamber and an electric component compartment, an exhaust flow path which communicates with a lower portion of the oven body and an upper portion of the oven body to exhaust air existing under the oven body to the outside, a ventilation flow path which communicates with the inside of the cooking chamber and a front air outlet to ventilate the cooking chamber, a communicating flow path which is provided in the oven body and allows the exhaust flow path to communicate with the ventilation flow path, and a path-converting device which is provided in the communicating flow path and selectively discharges the air exhausted from the cooking chamber toward either the front air outlet or the exhaust flow path.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a microwave oven, which is provided with a toasting cavity in addition to a microwave cooking cavity, thus making well-toasted breads. The microwave oven includes a cabinet which is partitioned into a microwave cooking cavity, a toasting cavity, and a machine room. A microwave generating unit is installed in the machine room to irradiate microwaves into the microwave cooking cavity. A heating unit is installed in the toasting cavity to heat the toasting cavity. A ventilating unit functions to ventilate the toasting cavity.

Abstract: A wall-mounted microwave oven is provided capable of performing an exhaust function irrespective of a folded state or an unfolded state of a guide plate while achieving an improvement in the exhaust function. The wall-mounted microwave oven includes an oven body, and the guide plate to guide fumes or smoke rising toward the oven body to an exhaust suction port formed at a bottom wall of the oven body. The guide plate is hingeably mounted to a front wall of the oven body to hinge upwardly to a folded position thereof or hinging downwardly to an unfolded position thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lifting device for lifting a microwave oven installed at a position right below kitchen furniture. According to the present invention, an end of a cord 30 is fixed in the microwave oven 20. Further, the cord 30 sequentially passes through a hole 23 formed in a top plate 22 of the microwave oven 20 and a through-hole 14 formed in a bottom plate 12 of the kitchen furniture 10. A stopper 40 or 50 with a center hole 42a or 52a formed therethrough is installed in the through-hole 14 of the kitchen furniture 10. That is, the cord 30 passes through the bottom plate 12 of the kitchen furniture 10 via the center hole 42a or 52a of the stopper 40 or 50. At this time, the stopper 40 or 50 limits a one-way motion of the cord 30 through the center hole 42a or 52a.

Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus is equipped with an oven hood fan, including a heating chamber for entering/deriving an article to be heated into/from the heating chamber, an electric power supplying apparatus for radiating electromagnetic waves into the heating chamber, a cooling fan for cooling the electric power supplying apparatus, another heat-cooking apparatus operated by gas or electric power, which is installed under an appliance main body, and a ventilation fan for sucking hot air from an air intake port, which is generated from the another heat-cooking apparatus, and for exhausting the sucked hot air. In the apparatus, wind which cools a heat generating unit of the electric power supplying apparatus by the cooling fan is joined onto an air intake path of the ventilation fan.

Abstract: A wall mounted type microwave oven having an external enclosure including a bottom closure wall which includes a suction opening and a top vent opening and an oven cavity which is supported within the external enclosure. The oven cavity has a rearwardly stepped portion to maximize the usable space provided within the oven cavity. An air exhaust air path is formed between the external enclosure and the oven cavity and includes a bottom plenum, a pair of rear air channels and an upper plenum. The rearwardly stepped area divides the space between the oven cavity and the external enclosure into the two rear air channels. At least one blower is provided within the external enclosure for drawing air into the bottom plenum through the suction opening and exhausting the air out through a top exhaust opening which forms part of the top vent opening.

Abstract: A microwave oven comprises a magnetron for delivering microwave power to a cavity of the oven, a rotatable phase modular (19) an electrical resistance heating element (12) and a rotatable fan (20) for forcing air over the resistance heating element (12) and though the cavity. The phase modulator (19) and the fan (20) are mounted on a common driveshaft (18). A matchplate (9) is mounted in the cavity.

Abstract: A microwave oven is provided, which includes a main cabinet for enclosing and protecting various components, having air inlet holes, a base frame under the main cabinet having a box form with an opened top and a front part with a plurality of air outlet holes, a bottom plate on the base frame, an inner case in a space above one side part of the bottom plate, the inner case having a cooking chamber formed therein, at least one magnetron, a transformer for regulating a voltage provided to the magnetron, at least one waveguide, a fan in a rear of outside of the inner case, and a flow guide for guiding air passed through the magnetron toward air outlet holes, thereby cooling components effectively, reducing a volume, and cost of the product.

Abstract: Disclosed is a combination hood microwave oven, by which a room environment is maintained more pleasant and fresh by proving a microwave oven with an air curtain generating unit for preventing polluted air, which includes hot, smelling, or humid air produced from an oven range on cooking, from diffusing into a room. The present invention includes a cabinet disposed over an oven range, a cooking room having a predetermined cavity within the cabinet for cooking using an electromagnetic wave generated from a magnetron, a hood unit installed within the cabinet to discharge polluted air produced from the oven range on cooking, and an air curtain generating unit installed at a bottom side of the cabinet to prevent the polluted air from diffusing into a room.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a composite workpiece are provided. An electromagnetic field generator induces a current in a susceptor, thereby heating the workpiece in a die cavity. An elastomeric bladder in the cavity is inflated and urges the workpiece against a contour surface corresponding to a desired configuration of the workpiece. Coolant fluid can also be circulated through the die cavity to cool the workpiece. Thus, the workpiece can be heated, formed, and cooled quickly and without substantial heating of other components, thereby reducing the time and energy relative to conventional forming methods.

Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus is equipped with an oven hood fan, including a heating chamber for entering/deriving an article to be heated into/from the heating chamber, an electric power supplying apparatus for radiating electromagnetic waves into the heating chamber, a cooling fan for cooling the electric power supplying apparatus, another heat-cooking apparatus operated by gas or electric power, which is installed under an appliance main body, and a ventilation means for sucking hot air from an air intake port, which is generated from the another heat-cooking apparatus, and for exhausting the sucked hot air. In the apparatus, wind which cools a heat generating unit of the electric power supplying apparatus by the cooling fan is joined onto an air intake path of the ventilation fan.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for exhausting pollutant for a microwave oven, the apparatus comprising: a sensor part formed at a predetermined portion of the microwave oven, for detecting fumes and/or moisture contained in polluted air generated during a cooking process; a controller for determining whether or not amount of the fumes and/or moisture detected by the sensor part is greater than a predetermined reference value; and a fan driving part operated, when the amount detected by the controller is greater than the reference value, by a driving signal from the controller and allowing air containing the pollutant to be inhaled and then removed from an interior.

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 cooling structure for an oven door of a microwave oven usable as a pizza oven, which includes air inlet perforations formed through a portion of a chamber partition wall contacting one side section of the oven door to communicate with an electric device installation chamber, and thus, to receive ambient air, air inlet perforations formed through the side section of the oven door, the inlet perforations having the same shape as the first air inlet perforations such that the second air inlet perforations are aligned with the first air inlet perforations to introduce the air into the interior of the oven door, and air outlet perforations formed through the other side and top sections of the oven door to outwardly exhaust the air introduced into the interior of the oven door.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlling output power of a combination hood and microwave oven, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for controlling power of a combination hood and microwave oven, wherein an output level of a high voltage transformer for generating a high voltage can be adjusted. According to the combination hood and microwave oven of the present invention, the electric power supplied to the high voltage transformer can be increased by temporarily turning off the parts (limited to the components which can be controlled separately from the microwave oven function), such as the vent fan or the electric indicator lamp, having large power consumption. Thus, the output power level thereof can be increased. Therefore, there are advantages in that the quick cooking can be made and cooking performance can be improved due to the high output of the transformer, when the user intends to make the quick cooking with the high output power.