An appliance includes a hinge module between a main body and a pull-down door. The hinge module includes a housing, a rotational axis member disposed in the housing serving as a center of rotation between the pull-down door and the main body, an inner link housing movably disposed in the housing that moves with the opening of the pull-down door in a direction of the rotational axis member, and a damper installed in the inner link housing, the damper including a piston and a cylinder and providing damping force according to a relative movement of the piston and the cylinder. Any one of the piston and the cylinder of the damper moves with the inner link housing and the other of the piston and the cylinder of the damper moves by a predetermined distance as the inner link housing moves and then is interfered by the housing so as not to move further, and the piston and the cylinder of the damper starts damping, wherein the predetermined distance corresponds to an opening angle of the pull-down door in which the damping is started.

A viewing panel (30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80) for a domestic appliance includes a substrate (33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 83) and a conductive layer (35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85) disposed on the substrate; the conductive layer having conductive lines (31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81) forming a pattern. The substrate contains a polymeric material; the conductive lines have a height (H) of 0.5 micrometers to 10 micrometers determined by an Olympus MX61 microscope; and the pattern has an average pore area of 0.008 square millimeters to 0.06 square millimeters determined by an Olympus MX61 microscope. The viewing panel has: a total transmission of greater than 70% of light having a wavelength in the range of 360 nanometers to 750 nanometers; and an electromagnetic shielding efficiency of greater than 30 dB at 2.45 GHz.

A door assembly for a microwave appliance includes a door frame that defines a door plenum and an air inlet. A monitor cradle is positioned toward a front of the door frame for receiving an image monitor seated on top of or flush with a front of the door frame. A duct is mounted to the door frame to divide the plenum into a low pressure region and a high pressure region, and an air handler urges a flow of air through the door plenum. A trim piece is removably mounted to a top of the door frame and includes a front guide that is spaced apart from the image monitor to define an upper outlet through which the flow of air passes downward along the vertical direction in front of the image monitor.

The disclosure relates to a cooking appliance capable of reducing noise generated when a door is closed using a buffer member that is easily fixed to a hinge unit. The cooking appliance includes a main body, a cooking chamber provided to have a front surface opened inside the main body, a door to open and close the cooking chamber, a hinge unit coupled to the main body to rotatably support the door, and a buffer member fixed to the door to buffer an impact generated when the door is closed by contacting the hinge unit when the door is closed.

A pull-out heating cooking apparatus (1) includes a heating chamber (10), a drawer body (11), a fan (21), a microwave supply unit (14), an air sending unit (15), and a main body outer case (40). The heating chamber (10) includes a panel (100) provided with a first through hole part (100B) and a second through hole part (100C) are formed. In the heating chamber (10), a first space (S1) and a second space (S2) are formed between an outer surface of the heating chamber (10) and an inner surface of the main body outer case (40). The fan (21) takes in air from the first through hole part (100B) to the first space (S1), and circulates the air to the fan (21) via the first space (S1). The fan (21) blows out the air to the second space (S2) and circulates the air to the second through hole part (100C) via the second space (S2).

A drawer type heating cooking apparatus (100) includes a heating chamber (1), a drawer body (2), and an air sending unit (13). The heating chamber (1) includes a heating cooking chamber (100A). The air sending unit (13) supplies hot air into the heating cooking chamber (100A). The heating chamber (1) includes a heating chamber (13A), and a partition plate (13B) configured to divide the heating cooking chamber (100A) and the heating chamber (13A) configured to house a heater (131) and a centrifugal fan (132). The partition plate (13B) includes a blow-out hole section (13C) through which hot air blows into the heating cooking chamber (100A), and a suction hole section (13D). The drawer body (2) includes a placement portion (22), in which an object to be heated is able be placed, and a support portion (23) configured to support the placement portion (22). The blow-out hole section (13C) is located at a position higher than the height of the support portion (23) in a state in which the drawer body (2) is drawn into the heating cooking chamber (100A).

A device, in particular a household device, includes a device housing (1), wherein the device housing (1) is at least partially made of glass (2a). The glass (2a) has a glass outer surface (2h) and a glass inner surface (2g). The device housing (1) is adapted such that a permanent magnet (7) magnetically adheres to the glass outer surface (2h).

A microwave cooking appliance allowing better access into the cooking cavity. The microwave cooking appliance may include a bottom articulating from the housing. The appliance may include an actuator. The appliance may include one or more linkage members connected to the actuator and bottom. The appliance may include a linkage track guiding the one or more linkage members and/or bottom between positions.

A microwave heating device includes a heating chamber that accommodates an object to be heated, a microwave generator configured to generate microwaves, a wave guide tube configured to guide the microwaves to the heating chamber, and an electromagnetic field distribution adjustment device provided in a predetermined two-dimensional region within the heating chamber. The electromagnetic field distribution adjustment device has a plurality of metal pieces and a plurality of switches. The plurality of metal pieces are arranged to fill the predetermined two-dimensional region. The plurality of switches connect the plurality of metal pieces with one another. A serially connected row of metal pieces is configured by connecting one metal piece among the plurality of metal pieces to at most two metal pieces adjacent to the one metal piece through at least two of the plurality of switches. The present exemplary embodiment can achieve a low-cost electromagnetic field distribution adjustment device that heats an object to be heated more uniformly, while preventing a drop in heating efficiency.

A combined apparatus for heating, cooking, grilling and defrosting of foods of various kinds, depending on the type of foods to be treated from time to time and the duration of the foods treatment foreseen by each user of the same apparatus, where each hot treatment of foods may be effected either by heating or by microwaves only, or by heating and microwaves combined to each other. There are described in detail all the technical characteristics of the apparatus and the relative control circuits either for heating or for generating the microwaves. Advantages include use of a sole and single apparatus for hot treating the foods for providing for the heating, the cooking, the grilling and the defrosting of the same foods, instead of employing as it happens hitherto of single separated apparatuses for performing the same functions.