A structure covering a connection line, an electric cooking appliance including the same, and a method of assembling a cap of the electric cooking appliance includes a base plate including a through hole in a vertical direction, a cap provided below the base plate and provided with an accommodation space formed therein to accommodate a connection line placed through the through hole from an upper portion of the base plate, a coupling boss extending in a vertical direction in the cap and coupled to bottom of the base plate to couple the cap to the base plate, and a fastener inserted through the base plate from the upper portion of the base plate to couple the base plate to the coupling boss.

A portable microwave oven that includes an outer housing comprising a plurality of outer walls, wherein one outer wall includes a vent opening; an inner structure comprising a plurality of inner walls that define a heating chamber; a door rotatable relative to the outer housing to access the heating chamber; a heating element configured to heat the heating chamber; and a heat handling system comprising: an intake duct fluidly connecting the vent opening to an electronics chamber housing the heating element; an exhaust duct fluidly connecting the electronics chamber to the vent opening; and at least one fan that is configured to draw air in through the intake duct or push air out through the exhaust duct; wherein the microwave oven is operable in a first orientation, in which the door is forward facing, and a second orientation, in which the door is upward facing.

A gasket (20) adapted for a microwave oven or a cooking oven with microwave heating function, that includes at least one elastic material and includes a front portion (30) and a rear portion (32), wherein the front portion (30) of the gasket (20) is an electrically non-conductive material, whereas the rear portion (32) of the gasket (20) is an electrically conductive material.

A cooking apparatus that combines microwave based heating/cooking with either of blender/mixer grinder functionality and traditional cooking using open flame and/or induction cooking is disclosed. The cooking apparatus comprises a lid and at least one microwave producing device coupled to the lid. A lifting and lowering mechanism carries the lid and microwave producing device at a lower end for enabling vertically raising and lowering the lid along with the coupled microwave producing device. Upper end of lifting and lowering mechanism is slidably configured with a lower side of a chimney. Lid in lowered position gets operatively coupled with a container holding a food item. The container can be one for cooking food using conventional source of heat, or a container for preparatory operations such as blending, stirring, grinding and mixing. Coupling of the lid with the containers enables heating of the contents of the container through the microwaves generated by the at least one microwave producing device.

Universal electronic oven heating functionality modules and associated methods are disclosed herein. One such module includes an energy steering element, a controller with control logic for the energy steering element, a first means for forming a seal with an opening, and a casing to enclose the controller and the energy steering element. The casing can include top and bottom side elements. One such method includes providing a functionality module with a mounting plate, the first means for forming a seal, and the casing. The method also includes providing an electronic oven with a heating chamber and a second means for forming a seal with the functionality module. The heating chamber can have a first opening for a heating chamber door, and a second opening for functionality module reception. The method also includes engaging the functionality module with the heating chamber to form a seal between the first and second means.

A microwave oven or multifunctional oven with microwave heating function. The oven includes a cavity with an open front side and a front frame enclosing at least partially a front portion of the cavity. The cavity and the front frame include metal sheet. The front frame is connected to the cavity by fixing elements. A gap is formed between the cavity and the front frame. The gap encloses at least partially the front portion of the cavity and the front frame encloses the gap. The oven includes a door covering the open front side and the gap in a closed state of the door. The gap is at least partially filled by a gasket at least part of which includes one or more materials having low heat conductivity, so that the front frame is thermally decoupled from the cavity by the part of the gasket or the gap.

A combined ventilation and microwave oven system includes an external enclosure with a top portion defining recirculation vent outlets, a cooling air inlet, a cooling air outlet, and an outside vent outlet, first and second side portions, and a bottom portion defining a vent inlet. The vent inlet is connected with the recirculation vent outlets and the outside vent outlet via airflow pathways. A hood assembly is disposed within the external enclosure and includes a first hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the first side portion and a second hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the second side portion. The hood assembly is configured to direct air through the vent inlet and through an interior of the external enclosure. A cooling fan is disposed between the cooking cavity and the second side portion to direct air through the cooling air inlet and the cooling air outlet.

A household or commercial appliance includes a couple magnetrons having relative anodes and cathodes, and a power unit comprising a high voltage circuit. The high voltage circuit comprises: a high voltage transformer comprising a primary winding connected to an alternating voltage source and a secondary high-voltage winding providing an alternating high voltage having a period comprising two half periods, a couple of half-wave voltage doubler circuits, and first and second unidirectional conducting devices. The first and second unidirectional conducting devices being configured to cause the half-wave voltage doubler circuits to supply, during a period of the alternating high-voltage the doubled high-voltage to the cathode of the respective magnetron alternately.

A heat cooking device comprises a casing, a heating chamber, and an exhaust duct having an outlet provided on a rear edge side of an upper surface of the casing such that exhaust air from an inside of the casing is blown out forward. An upper outer wall surface of a rear surface plate of the casing is covered by the exhaust duct to form an exhaust passage between the casing and the exhaust duct. A guidance part is provided inside the exhaust passage, and guides the water infiltrating into the exhaust passage through the outlet of the exhaust duct, downward inside the exhaust passage.

A control panel having a tunnel structure of discharging infiltrated moisture, and a microwave oven having the same. The microwave oven includes a cabinet provided with a cooking compartment in which food is heated by microwaves and a machine room divided from the cooking compartment and in which machine parts are installed, a door coupled to a front side of the cooking compartment so as to open and close, and a control panel coupled to a front side of the machine room and provided to allow a function to be selected, wherein the control panel is provided at an inside thereof with at least one tunnel allowing moisture infiltrated into the control panel to pass therethrough so that the moisture is discharged to the outside. The tunnel is formed along an outer peripheral surface of the input unit, thereby preventing device malfunction due to moisture infiltrated into the control panel.