Heat cooking device allowing control of fan rotation number

• US 6,242,725 B1
• Filed: 06/16/2000
• Issued: 06/05/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukuda, Yoshihito, Murata, Junji, Fukuda, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Leung, Philip H.
• Application Number:
  US09/594,821
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 219/757, 219/681, 219/400, 219/702, 126/299.D, 126/299.R, 126/21.A, 126/273.A
• US Class Current: 219/757
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/6423 wherein the microwave oven air circulation system is also used as air extracting hood
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/6429 Aspects relating to mounting assemblies of wall-mounted microwave ovens

Abstract

When a hood fan of a microwave oven installed at a high place operates, the air below the microwave oven is guided to a prescribed direction. Namely, the microwave oven may be used as a ventilation fan. When manner of setting of the hood fan is changed, the direction of an air outlet of the fan can be changed. When the hood fan exhausts air to the room, the number of rotation of the hood fan is made lower than when the air is exhausted outside the room.

Claims

1. A heat cooking device including a heating chamber for accommodating an object for heating, heating means for heating the object, an outer casing covering an outer part of said heating chamber and said heating means, an inlet provided at the outer casing to introduce air to the inside of said outer casing, and an outlet provided at the outer casing to exhaust air to the outside of said outer casing, said heat cooking device comprising:

a fan, for feeding air from said inlet to said outlet, capable of being set in a plurality of direction settings;

means for driving said fan;

wherein the direction of air exhausted by said outlet differs dependent on the direction setting of said fan, and

a driving means control such that the fan is rotated at any number of rotations within a prescribed range of rotations per unit time,

whereby the prescribed range of said number of rotations per unit time is dependent on said direction setting of said fan.

2. The heat cooking device according to claim 1, wherein

said cooking device is installed in a room,

said plurality of different direction setting includes a first manner of direction setting at which said fan feeds air to the inside of the room, and a second manner of direction setting at which said fan feeds air to the outside the room; and

said driving means determines said prescribed range for said first manner of direction setting to be smaller number of rotation than said prescribed range for said second manner of direction setting.

3. The heat cooking device according to claim 1, wherein

said manner of direction setting of the fan is changeable;

said device further comprising input means allowing input of information of the manner of direction setting after the change of said fan; and

wherein

said driving means determines said prescribed range of the number of rotations based on the information of the manner of direction setting after the change, input through said input means.

4. The heat cooking device according to claim 1, wherein

said outlet includes a plurality of outlets;

said fan feeds air to any of said plurality of outlets dependent on the manner of direction setting of the fan;

said device further comprising;

a cover capable of opening/closing a prescribed outlet of said plurality of outlets; and

cover opening/closing means capable of controlling opening/closing of said cover,

said cover opening/closing means controlling said cover so that it is closed, and controlling said cover to be opened/closed in accordance with an operation of said fan only when said manner of setting of said fan is selected to be such manner of direction setting that feeds air to said prescribed outlet.

5. The heat cooking device according to claim 1, further comprising an oil filter and a charcoal air filter provided at said inlet.