A heating cooking apparatus (100) includes a heating cooking chamber (100A), a microwave supply unit (15), and a pull-out body (2). The microwave supply unit (15) includes a microwave generation unit (151) configured to generate microwaves, a radiation port (15C) for radiating the microwaves into the heating cooking chamber (100A), and a waveguide (152) positioned below the heating cooking chamber (100A) and configured to guide the microwaves from the microwave generation unit (151) to the radiation port (15C). The pull-out body (2) includes a pull-out main body on which the object (H) to be heated is placed, and a support member (25) positioned below the heating cooking chamber (100A) and configured to support the pull-out main body. The support member (25) extends in a first direction (D1). The support member (25) and the waveguide (152) are positioned at different positions in a second direction (D2) intersecting the first direction (D1) and a vertical direction.

Disclosed herein is a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a housing, a cooking chamber formed in the housing, a heater arranged on one side of the cooking chamber, a door coupled to the housing to open and close the cooking chamber, the door including a door body provided to form an exterior of the door, a handle recessed from an outer surface of the door body, and a cooling plate positioned adjacent to an inner surface of the door body corresponding to the handle so as to dissipate heat that is generated by the heater and transferred to the handle.

A microwave wire mesh oven including: a microwave oven cavity; a wire mesh element positioned to radiate black body radiation into the microwave oven cavity; and a magnetron configured to generate microwaves, wherein some of the generated microwaves impinge on the wire mesh element.

The present invention relates to a composite cooker having a plurality of heat sources. The cooker, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, may comprise: a housing having a cavity formed therein; door connected to the housing so as to open/close the cavity; a MW heating module for radiating microwaves to the cavity; an IH heating module for radiating a magnetic field toward the cavity; and a shielding member for enabling the magnetic field generated by the TH heating module to pass through, while blocking the microwaves radiated from the MW heating module. The shielding member may comprise carbon fiber.

A.

i. A toaster component is incorporated into a conventional countertop toaster oven to create a countertop Toaster Oven/Toaster combo, a single structure. The toaster and toaster oven components of this appliance can be used individually or both at the same time.

ii. A toaster component is incorporated into a conventional countertop microwave oven to create a countertop Microwave Oven/Toaster combo, a single structure. The toaster and microwave oven components of this appliance can be used individually or both at the same time.

iii. A toaster component is incorporated into a conventional over-the-range microwave oven to create an Over-The-Range Microwave Oven/Toaster combo, a single structure. The toaster and microwave oven components of this appliance can be used individually or both at the same time.

B.

i. A toaster oven is incorporated into the countertop Microwave Oven/Toaster combo, above A.ii, to create a countertop Microwave Oven/Toaster Oven/Toaster combo, a single structure. The toaster, toaster oven and microwave oven components of this appliance can be used individually, two or three at the same time.

ii. A toaster oven is incorporated into the Over-The-Range Microwave Oven/Toaster combo, above A.iii, to create an Over-The-Range Microwave Oven/Toaster Oven/Toaster combo, a single structure.

The toaster, toaster oven and microwave oven components of this appliance can be used individually, two or three at the same time.

A manufacturing method, firing tray, and microwave kiln for spark plug insulators. Using microwave energy and particularly structured time-temperature profiles may allow for efficient sintering of the spark plug insulator ceramic material. The method may use a combination of radiant heat energy heating and microwave energy heating to facilitate the sintering process.

Systems and methods for user configurable cooking appliances include receiving system resources having associated budgets, facilitating user allocation the system resources to a plurality of heating elements without exceeding the associate budgets, applying the system resources to the heating elements to heat one or more food substances within a cooking chamber, and selectively regulating delivery of the system resources to the heating elements such that no more than the associated budget of each of the system resources is delivered to the heating elements. Computing components can execute a heating algorithm to cook at least one food substance in the cooking chamber, detect a state change of the food substance, and modify the heating algorithm to reconfigure the system resources supplied to the heating elements in response to the state change and in accordance with user configured allocation and associated budgets for the system resources.

A heating and cooking apparatus inside the cooking chamber of a 3D food printer includes a laser cooking apparatus controlled by a processor implementing particular computer program instructions specific to the operation of the heating and cooking apparatus. The laser cooking apparatus includes at least one laser system with at least one laser beam able to heat the food product to its cooking temperature. Each laser system provides two or more laser beams, each of which can be deflected and focused into the food product with a beam spot of adjustable diameter. The heating and cooking apparatus also can include an electromagnetic radiation heating apparatus that is controlled by the processor and emits electromagnetic radiation to warm the food product inside the cooking chamber to a temperature below its cooking temperature.

An apparatus for thermal treatment of coatings on substrates includes a microwave applicator cavity; a microwave power supply to deliver power to the cavity; a thermally insulated microwave-transparent compartment within the cavity, large enough to contain the coated substrate while occupying no more than 50% of the total volume of the cavity; a means of supporting the coated substrate within the compartment; an adjustable IR heating source in the compartment and facing the substrate so that a selected amount of IR heating may be applied to the substrate; and, a non-contacting temperature measurement device to measure the temperature of the coating. Related methods for using the apparatus to process different kinds of films are also disclosed.

Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.