Patent · US Expired

Package of material for microwave heating including container with stepped structure

US4831224A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 30, 1987
Grant dateMay 16, 1989
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Expiry dateApr 30, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S99/14
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A container for containing a material to be heated in a microwave oven, having at least one stepped structure protruding into or out of the container from a surface thereof, this structure including a side wall or side walls that define boundary conditions that generate a microwave field pattern within the container having a higher order than that of the fundamental mode of the container.

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