公开(公告)号：US20190113241A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-18

申请号：US16090440

申请日：2017-04-11

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Owen Zhang ,  Michael Ledford ,  Xiangxu Liu ,  Stephen Zheng

IPC: F24C15/20 ,  H05B6/64

Abstract: A combined ventilation hood and microwave oven system (10) with an overall vertical dimension (30) is provided, which is smaller than a conventional combined ventilation hood and microwave oven. One or more vent hood fans (66;74) are disposed on lateral sides of a microwave coo-king cavity (34) to draw in exhaust air (92;93) through one or more vent inlets (54;56;158;160) disposed on a bottom surface (20;156) and expel the exhaust air (92;93;162) through one or more vent outlets (46;52) defined on a surface of an outer wrapper (80) of the combined system. The low-profile combined ventilation hood and microwave oven system is coupled with a modular heating system (150;180) for heating food, which provides both functions within the space typically required by the conventional combined ventilation hood and microwave oven.

公开(公告)号：US11079118B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-03

申请号：US16090440

申请日：2017-04-11

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Owen Zhang ,  Michael Ledford ,  Xiangxu Liu ,  Stephen Zheng

IPC: F24C15/20 ,  H05B6/64

Abstract: A combined ventilation hood and microwave oven system (10) with an overall vertical dimension (30) is provided, which is smaller than a conventional combined ventilation hood and microwave oven. One or more vent hood fans (66;74) are disposed on lateral sides of a microwave coo-king cavity (34) to draw in exhaust air (92;93) through one or more vent inlets (54;56;158;160) disposed on a bottom surface (20;156) and expel the exhaust air (92;93;162) through one or more vent outlets (46;52) defined on a surface of an outer wrapper (80) of the combined system. The low-profile combined ventilation hood and microwave oven system is coupled with a modular heating system (150;180) for heating food, which provides both functions within the space typically required by the conventional combined ventilation hood and microwave oven.