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Granted Patent B2
US 11,047,578 · App. 16/240,224 · Granted Jun 29, 2021

Automatic oven

Inventors: Alexander L. Clayton (St. Joseph, MI); Vince Huang (Shenzhen, CN); Xiangxu Li (Shenzhen, CN); Ken Lei (Shenzhen, CN); Hanks Hu (Shenzhen, CN); Juan Chen (Norrkoping, SE); Tracy Yu (Shenzhen, CN); Jack Li (Shenzhen, CN); Roy Qiu (Shenzhen, CN); Seth Herndon (Benton Harbor, MI); Donald John Gilmore (Berrien Springs, MI); Cristiano Vito Pastore (Comerio, IT); Dick Ge (Shenzhen, CN); Pallavi Manjrekar (Stevensville, MI); Bruce M. Wiatrak (Bolingbrook, IL); Andrea Ferrise (Benton Harbor, MI); Blake Cartwright (Benton Harbor, MI); Richard J. Hughes (Coloma, MI); Joel Fletty (Benton Harbor, MI); Wyndham F. Gary, Jr. (Whitefish Bay, WI); Joshua G. Abdoo (Stevensville, MI); Collin A. Stipe (West Unity, OH); Nicholas Brenn (St. Joseph, MI); Casey L. McCuan (St. Joseph, MI); Christopher L. Carpenter (Pearisburg, VA)
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,047,578
App. No.
16/240,224
Granted
Jun 29, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An automatic oven having a controller and a sensor assembly for automatically determining a food type for a food item placed in a cooking chamber of the automatic oven, and cooks the automatically determined food item according to a cooking profile selected based on the determined food type, while optionally accommodating a user input on the determining of the food type, and the cooking profile, including an optional degree of doneness.

Claims (11)

1. A method for cooling a cooking appliance having a cabinet including an insert within the cabinet to define cooking chamber with an access opening and a door selectively closing/opening the access opening, the method comprising:

flowing cooling air through a back wall of the cabinet, over a top wall of the insert, and out a side wall of the cabinet to define a first cooling flow path;

flowing cooling air through a bottom wall of the cabinet, along the bottom wall of the cabinet, and out a side wall of the cabinet to define a second cooling flow path; and

flowing cooling air through a bottom wall of the cabinet, out a front wall of the cabinet, into the door, out of the door, into a front wall of the cabinet, and out of a side wall of the cabinet to define a third cooling flow path;

wherein the first, second, and third cooling flow paths are fluidly isolated from each other.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first and second cooling flow paths flow out different side walls of the cabinet.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first and second cooling flow paths flow out a common vent in the same side wall.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the first cooling flow path flows over a sensor assembly.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the second cooling flow path flows over a controller.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the third cooling flow path flows over a human machine interface (HMI).

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the HMI is located in the door.

Continuity (1)
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