Microwave container and method of making same
US4866234A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 11, 1988 |
| Grant date | Sep 12, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S99/14
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A container for holding material such as foodstuff to be heated in a microwave oven, including an open-topped tray and a lid for covering the tray to form a closed cavity, wherein at least one surface of the container has one or more electrically conductive plates and/or microwave-transparent apertures for generating a microwave field pattern having a higher order than that of the fundamental modes of the container, such that the field pattern so formed propagates into the contained material to thereby locally heat the material.
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