公开(公告)号：US09775461B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-03

申请号：US14192199

申请日：2014-02-27

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Jaekyung Yang ,  Youngmin Lee ,  Eunkyoung Yoon ,  Jinyul Hu ,  Heungsik Choi

IPC: A47J27/00 ,  F24B1/00 ,  A47J27/62 ,  A47J37/06 ,  A23L5/10

CPC classification number: A47J27/62 ,  A23L5/15 ,  A47J37/0629

Abstract: A cooking device is provided. The cooking device may include a cavity forming a space in which food may be received for cooking, a grill heater provided at one side of the cavity and having a plurality of heaters to heat the food, a food sensing device provided in the cavity to acquire information related to a size of the food received in the cavity, and a main controller to estimate the size of the food using information sensed by the food sensing device. The main controller may then operate a part or all of the plurality of heaters according to the estimated size of the food to perform a grill cooking operation.