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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178824 | Cooking device A cooking device that cooks food and drink by using heat generation of a heater, or a heat source such as microwaves. A cooking device is provided in which the radiation of microwaves can be varied depending on load, such as cooking objects, when microwaves are used... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7388180 | Microwave oven having a driving unit for moving and rotating an antenna A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber; a magnetron for generating a microwave; a waveguide for guiding the microwave from the magnetron toward the cooking chamber; an antenna between the cooking chamber and the waveguide for propagating the microwave guided by... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7276679 | Microwave oven A microwave oven including: a main casing forming a component compartment and a cooking compartment and formed with a component compartment through portion communicating with the component compartment; a fan assembly coupled to the main casing, and including an exha... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269996 | Method for dynamic diagnosis of an exhaust gas analyzer probe A method for the dynamic diagnosis of an exhaust gas analyzer probe situated in an exhaust-gas system having at least one exhaust-gas catalytic converter, of an internal combustion engine, a measuring signal (lambda-actual) of the exhaust gas analyzer probe being co... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7252402 | Lighting device for baking oven A lighting device for illuminating the inside of a baking oven containing an oven muffle and a front flap or door including a viewing window. The lighting device having a light beam path inside of the front flap and at least one mirror arranged in the front flap for... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7199341 | High-frequency heating apparatus A high-frequency heating apparatus comprises a heating chamber, a high-frequency generator, a waveguide, an antenna, a motor for rotating the antenna, and a stage (6) provided above and near the antenna to partition the heating chamber and made of dielectric.... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7189950 | Electric oven An electric oven capable of cooking food in a cook-top way. The electric oven according to the present invention includes a cabinet which forms an appearance of the electric oven, a cooking cavity defined inside the cabinet and having an opening front part to contai... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7145119 | Microwave cooker having antenna in cooperation with movable stirrer A microwave cooker includes a body having a cooking chamber therein, a microwave source disposed at the body for generating a microwave, a wave guide for guiding the microwave generated from the microwave source into the cooking chamber, a rotation antenna installed... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7116204 | Leakage transformer A leakage transformer capable of preventing occurrence of a short-circuit of a secondary winding and is also capable of restraining a distance between terminals from becoming wide is provided. A leakage transformer (10) has a structure such that a secondary w... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7067779 | Magnetron arrangement A magnetron arrangement has a coaxial output terminating in a probe which launches energy from the magnetron along a rectangular waveguide. The coaxial output is arranged in an endfire configuration with respect to the waveguide, giving a compact arrangement compare... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7049566 | Cooking device A cooking device includes a first waveguide portion to make a microwave emitted into a heating chamber propagate radially in the directions almost parallel with the bottom face of the heating chamber and to guide the microwave propagated in the almost parallel direc... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7030347 | Microwave oven with mode stirrer A microwave oven, which has a circular polarized wave stirrer for uniformly heating food, is disclosed. The microwave oven includes a magnetron generating electromagnetic waves, a waveguide guiding the electromagnetic waves generated from the magnetron to a cavity, ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6933482 | Microwave heating apparatus Microwave heating apparatus comprising an elongated dielectric microwave applicator with an axial TM type mode, said dielectric applicator is provided with a load chamber for a load to be heated, said load chamber is located in a centered axial position inside the a... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6909077 | Microwave ovens A microwave oven has an oven cavity in which a launch site for delivering microwave energy into the oven cavity is provided by a hole (6) in a wall (2) of the cavity and a match plate (10). In order to improve the distribution of microwave energ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6861632 | Microwave oven A microwave oven includes a motor for a stirrer and a motor mounting unit. The motor is provided at an outer circumferential surface thereof with a first flange having a hole. The motor mounting unit is provided on an outer surface of a wave guide, and includes a se... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6812443 | Microwave oven capable of changing the way to supply microwaves into heating chambers A microwave oven has a heating chamber formed inside a body frame. A radiation antenna is provided below the heating chamber. The radiation antenna is structured in such a way that a member housed in an antenna drive box appropriately operates to change the distance... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6720541 | High frequency heating apparatus with temperature detection means A high-frequency heating apparatus capable of simultaneously heating different kinds of objects to appropriate temperatures includes: a power feed portion provided on a right side wall forming a heating chamber; a mounting table on which to mount objects to be heate... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6698657 | Method and apparatus for data interpretation An interactive interpreter of synchronous or asynchronous selective data from an annular indicia. The annular indicia has data contained thereon that is formatted into bit-cells. The bit-cells are angularly positioned about the circumference of the annula... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6689994 | Antenna radiation heater for heating a material by using resonance Disclosed is an antenna radiation heater (2) to heat material using molecular resonance. A plurality of surface antenna elements (3), each having a carrier surface material (11) and a radiation coating (10) applied thereon are connected by two spaced apar... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6614011 | Microwave oven including antenna for properly propagating microwaves oscillated by magnetron An opening is formed in a right side of a heating chamber. The opening is covered by a protection cover. A waveguide is connected to the opening. A magnetron is connected to the waveguide. The magnetron has a magnetron antenna. An emission antenna is arra... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6590192 | Microwave oven with temperature-dependent automatic stop A microwave oven determines an appropriate time to stop heating even if multiple food items are placed in the heating chamber. After any position on the bottom surface of the microwave oven reaches 75 deg C., a search is made for any other position having... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6576879 | Microwave oven with wave distributing device A microwave oven having a wave distributing device. A motor-operated rotor is installed inside a cooking cavity to distribute high-frequency electromagnetic waves ("microwaves") generated by the oscillation of a magnetron. The wave distributing device inc... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6563097 | Microwave oven with food search and localized heating A microwave oven heats all food in an appropriate manner even if food items are simultaneously placed at multiple locations in a heating chamber. An auxiliary antenna is periodically stopped at an orientation corresponding to a position where a lowest tem... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6444966 | Microwave oven with a rotational antenna A rotational antenna has a circular portion having a disc-like shape and a cylindrical portion connected to the central portion of the circular portion, and rotates in a direction perpendicular to the sheet with the cylindrical portion serving as an axis.... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6425190 | Method and device for moisture profiling A method and device for moisture profiling of a fibrous material web to be dried in machines for manufacturing and/or refining this web that includes subjecting the fibrous material web to electromagnetic waves in the form of microwaves and/or high-freque... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6274859 | High frequency heating apparatus for selective heating of a desired portion of an object A high frequency heating apparatus for heating an object to be heated is provided with an electromagnetic wave emission device for emitting electromagnetic waves, a local heating device capable of heating an optional portion of the object by the electroma... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6239416 | Apparatus and method for microwave heating using chaotic signals An apparatus and method for heating a microwave oven using a deterministic chaotic signal. The microwave oven includes a heating compartment, a magnetron for generating microwaves, a waveguide for directing the microwaves into the heating compartment and ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6211503 | Device and method of heating components made of microwave absorbing plastic With a device for heating parts 8 made of a microwave absorbing plastic and having a microwave generator 1 that generates microwaves of a certain wavelength, an antenna 4 to which the microwaves are conducted, having at least one free end 5 and a device 6... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6118112 | Choke knob for coaxial microwave feed A microwave apparatus includes a coaxial feed connected to a microwave waveguide and extended into a rotating antenna applicator in a microwave cavity, wherein a gap between the ceiling of the microwave cavity and the top of the rotating antenna applicato... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6097015 | Microwave pressure vessel and method of sterilization A novel method and apparatus for sterilizing, disinfecting or otherwise heating materials, objects, liquids and the like under pressure is disclosed. The invention utilizes the generation and transmission of single-mode, non-interfering coaxial microwaves... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5986249 | High frequency heating apparatus for providing a uniform heating of an object A high frequency heating apparatus for heating an object to be heated is provided with an electromagnetic wave emission means for emitting electromagnetic waves, a local heating means capable of heating an optional portion of the object by the electromagn... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5981928 | Microwave dispersing apparatus of microwave oven A microwave dispersing apparatus of a microwave oven having a dispersing unit for evenly dispersing into a cooking chamber through first and second waveguides the microwaves generated by oscillation of a magnetron, the apparatus comprising: a rotary motor... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5869817 | Tunable cavity microwave applicator A microwave applicator (10) including a tunable cavity (12) having by an elongated casing formed from a transition section (14) axially secured between upstream and downstream end sections (16) and by first and second end assemblies (28) each axially mova... | 02/09/1999 |
| 4937418 | Microwave oven fitted with a wave spreader A microwave oven comprising an enclosure (1) in which a receptacle (2) is disposed, at least one source (3) of microwaves disposed above the receptacle, and a wave spreader (5) mounted to rotate between the microwave source and the inside of the receptacl... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4896005 | Method and apparatus for the continuous heating, pasteurization or sterilization of foodstuffs or the like by microwave energy An appliance for the continuous treatment of foodstuffs or the like by means of microwaves in a treatment chamber, which allows individual adaptation to different product-pack heights and geometrical product forms, while at the same time ensuring the best... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4849592 | Feeding arrangement for a microwave oven An arrangement for feeding microwave energy from a microwave source (14) to the oven cavity (10) of a microwave oven comprises an elongated groove-shaped recess (16) in one of the conductive cavity walls (17), into which recess (16) microwave energy is fe... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4804812 | Microwave oven with combined rotary heater and wave guide plate A microwave oven with heater has a wave guide plate between a rotary heater and a wall of a heating chamber on which a bearing for the rotary heater is provided, for controlling microwave to improve distribution thereof, and further, preventing adhesion o... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4673783 | Compact high-frequency heating apparatus with stepped waveguide A high-frequency heating apparatus includes an inner casing defining a heating chamber therein, and an outer casing surrounding the inner case. A fixed waveguide is fixed on a top wall of the inner casing to guide high-frequency waves fed from a magnetron... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4642435 | Rotating slot antenna arrangement for microwave oven An improved excitation system for a microwave oven employing a circular rotating disk antenna configured to radiate peripherally from its outermost edge to provide backgound radiation in the oven cavity. Primary microwave energy radiation is emitted from ... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4641006 | Rotating antenna for a microwave oven A rotating antenna is provided for use in a microwave oven having drive apparatus for rotating the antenna, a heating cavity, a source of microwave energy and a waveguide between the heating cavity and the source of microwave energy. A probe extends into ... | 02/03/1987 |
