The present application discloses a cooking device, which includes a cabinet; the cabinet includes an inner cavity, a first heating assembly and a second heating assembly; the inner cavity is provided with a cooking chamber, as well as a first side wall and a second side wall that are arranged opposite to each other, the first side wall is provided with a first ventilation structure, and the second side wall is provided with a second ventilation structure; the first heating assembly is arranged outside the inner cavity and arranged corresponding to the first ventilation structure, and is configured to circularly heat air in the cooking chamber; the second heating assembly is arranged outside the inner cavity and arranged corresponding to the second ventilation structure, and is configured to circularly heat the air in the cooking chamber.

The invention relates to the field of microwave emitting equipment, in particular to microwave oscillators. The proposed variants of an oscillator and a matrix-type microwave oscillator enable to efficiently direct microwave radiation from one or more microwave sources and sum up microwave radiations, thus ensuring high values of efficiency and output power, superior functional capabilities of the device, a high degree of synchronization of radiations emitted by said microwave sources. The microwave oscillator comprises a microwave source and a resonator with a microwave channel made therein. The resonator comprises a box and a base electrically connected to each other, while the microwave channel accommodates a suppressing means for suppressing a back wave. The matrix-type oscillator comprises a plurality of said microwave oscillators electrically connected to each other.

A microwave apparatus comprises: a microwave feed line configured to deliver microwave energy having a selected operational frequency or range of frequencies to a radiating element extending from or coupled to a distal end of the microwave feed line; the radiating element; and a reactive element formed in or on the microwave feed line; wherein the operational frequency or range of frequencies is selected such that the reactive element both provides a desired degree of match between an impedance of the radiating element and an impedance of the microwave feed line, and reduces or eliminates surface currents flowing on a ground of the feed line.

An electromagnetic cooking device is provided having a controller and a plurality of RF feeds configured to introduce electromagnetic radiation into an enclosed cavity to heat up a food load. The controller is configured to: select a heating target; generate a heating strategy to determine a sequence of desired heating patterns; cause the RF feeds to output an RF signal to thereby excite the enclosed cavity; monitor the created heating patterns to measure resonances in the enclosed cavity and store a map of efficiency in frequency and phase domains from which the controller identifies resonant modes and Q-factors associated therewith; continue to monitor the created heating patterns and store maps of efficiency in the frequency and phase domains until a specified change is detected in at least one Q-factor; and when the specified change in the at least one Q-factor is identified, stop cooking the food load.

Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can include a heating system. The heating system can include one or more heating elements capable of emitting wireless energy into the cooking chamber. The cooking instrument can also include a control system. The control system can executing a heating sequence to drive the heating system, detect, based on an output signal of a sensor, a trigger event, and configure the heating system in response to detecting the trigger event.

A microwave heating method includes following steps: setting multiple microwave heating modes and their corresponding arrangements of resonator; selecting one of the microwave heating modes according to a heating condition; and, disposing an object to be heated and at least one resonator into a heating chamber, and providing a microwave signal to heat the object to heated, wherein a resonance frequency of the at least one resonator is corresponding to a frequency of the microwave signal, and the at least one resonator is arranged in the arrangement corresponding to the selected microwave heating mode. A microwave heating device suitable for the above microwave heating method is also proposed.

Analyzing the absorption behavior of an object includes: generating at least one electromagnetic signal such that a fixed spatial electric field distribution is produced; modulating the electromagnetic signal with a waveform to generate a modulated signal which is emitted as a forward electromagnetic wave towards the object to be analyzed; measuring at least one wave quantity of the forward electromagnetic wave; receiving a backward electromagnetic wave; measuring at least one wave quantity of the backward electromagnetic wave; and evaluating the measured wave quantity of the backward electromagnetic wave and the measured wave quantity of the forward electromagnetic wave by respectively transforming the measured wave quantities to obtain a spectrum of the respective transformation, wherein the spectrum assigned to the forward electromagnetic wave is compared with the spectrum assigned to the backward electromagnetic wave to determine deviations of the spectra from each other based on which the object is characterized.

A horn antenna for emitting an electromagnetic HPEM microwave pulse along a central axis contains a microwave generator for the pulse having a waveguide along the central axis with a generator opening for the pulse, and a horn structure for shaping the pulse with an input opening and an emission opening for the pulse. The generator contains at least one HPEM source for the pulse. Each HPEM source contains at least two antennas for pulse components, disposed in succession in parallel with the central axis. The pulse is formed as a sum of the pulse components. A method for reconstructing a horn antenna to form the horn antenna with increased power, includes constructively increasing a number of antennas toward a respective HPEM source and orienting remaining antennas in a row relative to the first antenna, increasing the waveguide length, and keeping other dimensions of the horn antenna unchanged.

A portable microwave oven with waveguides for guiding microwave radiation in multiple directions to multiple oven cavities within a chamber to optimize the oven's space usage, efficiently distribute the usage of wave radiation energy, adjust cavity space to heat items with different shapes, sizes, and to adjust cooking parameters including power level and time. In one embodiment, two main side oven cavities are joined by a third oven cavity above. Dividers can be moved along the walls of their respective main side cavity to allow the use of the shared cavity in between. A magnetron sends radio waves to two adjacent cavities via a single waveguide structure with multiple waveguide openings. Another embodiment has four cavities with compartments in-between surrounding a cylindrical-waveguide structure with multiple waveguide branches and a magnetron inside to allow microwaves to travel from the magnetron to the oven cavities.

Method of processing an object in an energy application zone by radio frequency (RF) radiation emitted by one or more radiating elements configured to emit the RF radiation in response to RF energy applied thereto, wherein the method includes controlling supply of RF energy to the one or more radiating elements via an RF energy supply component, receiving measured response values produced based on RF energy received by the one or more radiating elements from the energy application zone, accessing a stored set of coefficients associated with the RF energy supply component, said set of coefficients being utilized to transform the measured response values and controlling application of RF energy to the one or more radiating elements based on the measured response values and the set of coefficients.