Cooking appliance with temperature sensor

US6158329A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Marion Schneider · Ulm, DE
• Martin Thaler · Oberteisendorf, DE
• Uwe Has · Burgkirchen an der Alz, DE
• Susanne Stolz · Waldkraiburg, DE
• Monika Zeraschi · Traunreut, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 12, 2000
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S99/14
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cooking appliance has a cooking space for receiving a product to be cooked. The cooking space communicates with a cooling-air feeding device and with a sensor module which is provided for sensing a infrared radiation of a surface area under measurement located in the cooking space. The sensor module is disposed at least partially in an air stream provided by the cooling-air feeding device. Impairment of the measuring quality by the air stream is prevented by an extraction device that is provided for extracting air from the cooking space. The extraction device and the feeding device define an imaginary straight line joining a mouth opening of the cooling-air feeding device on the cooking space side and a mouth opening of the extraction device on the cooking space side being at a distance from the surface area under measurement.