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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8124920 | Controlled end-of-cook cycle and turntable return parking coincidence in a microwave oven A microwave cooking oven return of a food item to an original placement parking of the oven's rotating table concurrent with the end of a selected cook-time. The cooked foodstuff ends-up parked at the same frontward facing turntable orientation that existed at the o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7804050 | Linearly reciprocating tray for microwave oven A microwave oven in which a power transmission transmitting driving force of a motor moves a tray right and left without direct contact with the tray. The microwave oven includes a support disposed between a bottom plate and the tray to support the tray and the powe... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7435933 | Enhanced sample processing devices, systems and methods Devices, systems, and methods for processing sample materials. The sample materials may be located in a plurality of process chambers in the device, which is rotated during heating of the sample materials. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7361873 | Linearly reciprocating tray for microwave oven A microwave oven in which a power transmission transmitting driving force of a motor moves a tray right and left without direct contact with the tray. The microwave oven includes a support disposed between a bottom plate and the tray to support the tray and the powe... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355153 | Microwave oven liners A liner unit for a microwave oven. The liner unit has a plurality of disposable liners in a stack and which are adhered to each other to be peeled off each other. Each liner is disposable and will protect the interior surfaces of the oven against splatters and spill... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351943 | Automated microwave turntable An automated microwave cooking device turntable assembly includes an anchor member nested to a bottom surface of a microwave cooking device and extending upwardly within a cavity thereof. A drive gear is journaled about the anchor member and rotatable along a counte... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342208 | Linearly Reciprocating Tray for Microwave oven A microwave oven in which there is substantially no difference between time when a linearly traveling tray travels from the right side to the left side of a cooking chamber and time when the linearly traveling tray stays at the right side or the left side. The micro... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7276678 | Turntable device of microwave oven A turntable device of a microwave oven including: a motor mounted at a lower portion of a cabinet; an arm connected with a rotational shaft of the motor so as to be rotatably moved and having first and second rollers at an end thereof; a first tray disposed to be li... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273580 | Ferromagnetic resonance excitation and its use for heating substrates that are filled with particles Process for heating a substrate, which contains, relative to the total weight of the substrate, 0.1 to 70 wt. % of metallic, magnetic, ferrimagnetic, ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic or superparamagnetic particles having an average particle size of between 1 and 500... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7244916 | Microwave heating and cooking apparatus including drawer body A heating and cooking apparatus includes a cooking apparatus main body having a heating chamber, a drawer body including a base for carrying a heated target and formed such that the base moves from inside of the heating chamber to outside, a door drive motor moving ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7235763 | Cooking appliance including combination heating system A cooking appliance includes a heating system capable of combining radiant, convection, microwave and conduction heating techniques to perform a cooking operation. The cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber and a bifurcated air plenum having an angled divider ... | 06/26/2007 |
| RE39687 | Tray driving apparatus for a microwave oven and a microwave oven having the same A tray driving apparatus for a microwave oven and a microwave oven having the same including a speed changing unit for enhancing the cooking quality by periodically changing the rotational speed of the tray to more evenly radiate a microwave to food. The speed chang... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7223951 | Cooking control method of microwave oven and apparatus for performing the same A method for controlling microwave output depending upon food weight and food position so as to implement optimized cooking performance in a microwave oven and an apparatus for performing the same. According to the control method for cooking food placed on a turntab... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7214914 | Method of operating microwave oven and determining the cooking time A method of operating a microwave oven to determine the correct cooking time for a food item placed within the oven. A food package having a thermochromic element which changes color over a predetermined temperature range is placed in the microwave oven. Microwave e... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7202455 | Microwave oven Microwave oven including a case with a door, a cooking chamber in the case openable/closable with the door, and having a microwave applicable thereto, a first tray mounted in the cooking chamber to reciprocate therein, a second tray rotatably mounted on the first tr... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196297 | Process and system for thermally uniform materials processing The present invention provides a system and method for binder removal and sintering of materials such as ceramic materials and products, LTCC intervals, solid oxide fuel cells and powder metals. A combination of microwave and convection/radiation heating is employed... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193195 | Wall mounted microwave oven having a top vent with filter system A filter system for a wall mounted type microwave oven, which has an external enclosure surrounding an oven cavity. The external enclosure includes a bottom closure wall having a suction opening. The external enclosure also includes a top vent opening. An air exhaus... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7161125 | Cooking appliance A cooking appliance has a configuration that allows the heating item mounting unit of a heating chamber to be pulled out, and that can prevent generation of discharge failure by microwaves, without having to form a slide mechanism with a component or material that h... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7144739 | Pressure measurement and relief for microwave-assisted chemical reactions A pressure-sealing, pressure-monitoring closure for non-invasively sealing a reaction vessel to a defined release pressure in microwave-assisted chemistry is disclosed. The closure includes a pressure-resistant, microwave-transparent reaction vessel, one portion of ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7109456 | Microwave oven and rotating and reciprocating turntable thereof A microwave oven for enabling smooth rotation and linear reciprocation of a turntable is provided with a turntable installed therein to rotate and linearly reciprocate within a cooking compartment. The microwave oven includes a reciprocation guidance member, for sup... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7081605 | Microwave intensification system for a conveyorized microwave oven A microwave oven includes an oven cavity arranged within a housing. The oven includes a door and a motorized conveyor belt for transporting food items through the oven cavity. A microwave energy intensification system is provided below the conveyor belt to concentra... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7078661 | Apparatus for shielding electromagnetic wave of microwave oven door A microwave oven door, and more particularly, an apparatus for shielding electromagnetic wave that compensates for the length of slots formed in an end of an oven door in order to improve the shielding ability capable of preventing the leakage of electromagnetic wav... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7077145 | Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, are... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073514 | Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7057145 | Menu selection device in microwave oven A menu selection device for a microwave oven is provided which is constructed such that a single display device may be divided into a menu guide unit and a menu selection unit. The menu guide unit is used to display a variety of menus, whereas the menu selection uni... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053349 | Microwave oven A microwave oven according to the present invention includes a body, an inner case provided in the body and partitioning the interior of the body into an inner space defining a cooking chamber and an outer space defining an electric component chamber, and a magnetro... | 05/30/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7022956 | Microwave oven food-stirrer A retrospectively-fitted multi-configurable microwave oven accessory the purpose of which is to provide an automated stirring capability of foodstuffs by use of the internal rotary plate of a microwave oven to provide a relative motion of the foodstuff and which is ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019272 | Wall mounted microwave oven having an exhaust ventilation system A wall mounted type microwave oven having an external enclosure including a bottom closure wall which includes a suction opening and a top vent opening and an oven cavity which is supported within the external enclosure. The oven cavity has a rearwardly stepped port... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012230 | Microwave oven The present invention relates to a microwave oven. The microwave oven of the present invention comprises a cavity assembly which defines a cooking chamber therein and functions as a framework of the microwave oven, an outer casing which includes a top portion and si... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009160 | Rack for microwave ovens, and microwave oven set equipped with the same A rack for a microwave oven capable of appropriately cooking food without burning the food, and a microwave oven set equipped with the rack includes a rack section to support the food thereon, and support sections to support the rack section. The rack section includ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6982401 | Microwave oven Microwave oven including a cavity for placing food therein, a magnetron for generating a microwave, a waveguide having at least two slots for guiding the microwave from the magnetron to an inside of the cavity, and a stirrer fan rotatably mounted on an inside of the... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6956191 | Microwave oven having a projection door which extends a cooking chamber of the microwave oven A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber and a door. The cooking chamber includes a front opening and a bottom plate. The bottom plate is projected forward from the cooking chamber. The door selectively opens and closes the cooking chamber, and is projected forwa... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6946632 | Cooking apparatus equipped with weight measuring device A weight measuring device having a lever structure, a cooking apparatus equipped with the weight measuring device, and a mounting structure of the weight measuring device. A weight sensor pushed by a lever is disposed on an outer bottom surface of a cooking cavity. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6933484 | Microwave oven with food stirring device A stirring device for use in combination with a microwave oven and a carousel device either integral or portable having a base member with an integral attachment device for attachment to said microwave. A shaft depends from the base member, terminating in a blade me... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6911635 | Cooking apparatus and method A cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity to accommodate food to be cooked therein and a rotating unit to rotate while supporting the food. The rotating unit is installed within the cooking cavity to rotate by at least one roller which is in rolling contact with... | 06/28/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6852962 | Microwave oven A microwave oven includes a tray holding unit which stably holds both a cooking tray and a tray guide at their original positions regardless of vibration and impact applied to the cooking tray and/or tray guide. The tray holding unit includes a base part, and elasti... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6770859 | Microwave oven A microwave oven includes openings and microwave dispersing apparatuses which are arranged to align with a magnetron in a row below a cooking cavity so as to reduce the overall size of a waveguide and uniformly reflect high-frequency electromagnetic waves to all reg... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6768088 | Cooking shelf for microwave oven and microwave oven having the same A cooking shelf for a microwave oven allows food placed thereon to be equally close to its upper and lower heaters to evenly cook the food. The cooking shelf includes an upper shelf part having a certain area on which food is placed, a column part, which is downward... | 07/27/2004 |
