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US4734562A
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Electric toaster oven
Assignee: Toshiba Home Technology Corp
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Filing: 1986-07-21
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Granted: 1988-03-29
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Expires: 2006-07-21
Abstract
Abstract An electric toaster oven for use both as a toaster and as an oven, including a heater or heaters for heating an article placed in a baking chamber, a baked condition detector which detects the baked condition of the article through the detection of the heat radiated from the article, a plate forming part of the wall of the baking chamber and having a heat guide opening for transferring the heat radiated from the article therethrough to the baked condition detector, a tubular guide for guiding the heat to the baked condition detector, and a control circuit which controls supplying current to the heater or heaters on the basis of a detection signal provided by the baked condition detector. The baked condition detector includes a pair of thermosensitive elements disposed in different thermal conditions, respectively, and provides a signal corresponding to the difference between the respective temperature-dependent output signals of the thermosensitive elements. The heat guide opening is opened only when the electric toaster oven is used as a toaster, or the baked condition detector is placed opposite to the heat guide opening only when the electric toaster oven is used as a toaster.
Inventors
- 👤 Kazunori Amano
- 👤 Yoichi Sekigawa
- 👤 Nobuyuki Kojima
- 👤 Shigeki Yamaguchi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 14:13
CPC Classifications
A; A47; A47J; A47J37/00; A47J37/06; A47J37/0623; A47J37/0629; A47J37/0635; A47J37/08; A47J37/0814; A47J37/085; G; G05; G05D; G05D23/00; G05D23/19; G05D23/1927; G05D23/1928; G05D23/27
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
131 words
An electric toaster oven for cooking an article placed on a grill in a baking chamber by heating the article with a heater or heaters disposed in the baking chamber, which comprises: a plate forming part of the wall of the baking chamber and having a normally closed heat guide opening; a baked condition detector disposed outside the baking chamber and opposite to the heat guide opening and capable of detecting the heat radiated from the article and transferred thereto through the heat guide opening to detect the baked condition of the article; and a damper which opens the heat guide opening only when the electric toaster oven is used as a toaster and closes the heat guide opening automatically when the electric toaster oven is not used as a toaster.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
131 words
An electric toaster oven for cooking an article placed on a grill in a baking chamber by heating the article with a heater or heaters disposed in the baking chamber, which comprises: a plate forming part of the wall of the baking chamber and having a normally closed heat guide opening; a baked condition detector disposed outside the baking chamber and opposite to the heat guide opening and capable of detecting the heat radiated from the article and transferred thereto through the heat guide opening to detect the baked condition of the article; and a damper which opens the heat guide opening only when the electric toaster oven is used as a toaster and closes the heat guide opening automatically when the electric toaster oven is not used as a toaster.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
47 words
An electric toaster oven as recited in claim 1, wherein said damper is interlocked with a selector knob for selectively changing the mode of controlling the heater or heaters according to the mode of operation of the electric toaster oven as a toaster or as an oven.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
48 words
An electric toaster oven as recited in claim 1, wherein said damper is interlocked with a door of the baking chamber for putting the article into and taking out the article from the baking chamber so as to close the heat guide opening when the door is opened.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
138 words
An electric toaster oven for cooking an article placed on a grill in a baking chamber by heating the article with a heater or heaters disposed in the baking chamber, which comprises: a plate forming part of the wall of the baking chamber and having a heat guide opening; and a detecting unit disposed outside the baking chamber, comprising a baked condition detector capable of detecting the heat radiated from the article and transferred thereto through the heat guide opening to detect the baked condition of the article and a tubular guide for guiding the heat radiated from the article to the baked condition detector, said tubular guide automatically moving so that an inlet opening of the tubular guide is disposed opposite to the heat guide opening only when the electric toaster oven is used as a toaster.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
138 words
An electric toaster oven for cooking an article placed on a grill in a baking chamber by heating the article with a heater or heaters disposed in the baking chamber, which comprises: a plate forming part of the wall of the baking chamber and having a heat guide opening; and a detecting unit disposed outside the baking chamber, comprising a baked condition detector capable of detecting the heat radiated from the article and transferred thereto through the heat guide opening to detect the baked condition of the article and a tubular guide for guiding the heat radiated from the article to the baked condition detector, said tubular guide automatically moving so that an inlet opening of the tubular guide is disposed opposite to the heat guide opening only when the electric toaster oven is used as a toaster.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
48 words
An electric toaster oven as recited in claim 4, wherein said detecting unit is interlocked with a selector knob for selectively changing the mode of controlling the heater or heaters according to the mode of operation of the electric toaster oven as a toaster or as an oven.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
57 words
An electric toaster oven as recited in claim 4, wherein said detecting unit is interlocked with a door of the baking chamber for putting the article into and taking out the article from the baking chamber therethrough so that the detecting unit is displaced from a position opposite the heat guide opening when the door is opened.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
165 words
An electric toaster oven for cooking an article placed on a grill in a baking chamber by heating said article with a heater or heaters disposed in said baking chamber, said oven comprising: a plate forming part of the wall of said baking chamber and having a heat guide opening; a movable detecting unit disposed normally at a shielded position outside said baking chamber, away from said heat guide opening, said detecting unit including a baked condition detector capable of detecting the heat radiated from said article and transferred thereto and a tubular guide for guiding the heat radiated from said article to said baked condition detector; and means for automatically moving said detecting unit from said shielded position to a detecting position where the inlet opening of said tubular guide is positioned opposite said heat guide opening when said oven is used as a toaster and from said detecting position to said shielded position when said oven ceases to be used as a toaster.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
165 words
An electric toaster oven for cooking an article placed on a grill in a baking chamber by heating said article with a heater or heaters disposed in said baking chamber, said oven comprising: a plate forming part of the wall of said baking chamber and having a heat guide opening; a movable detecting unit disposed normally at a shielded position outside said baking chamber, away from said heat guide opening, said detecting unit including a baked condition detector capable of detecting the heat radiated from said article and transferred thereto and a tubular guide for guiding the heat radiated from said article to said baked condition detector; and means for automatically moving said detecting unit from said shielded position to a detecting position where the inlet opening of said tubular guide is positioned opposite said heat guide opening when said oven is used as a toaster and from said detecting position to said shielded position when said oven ceases to be used as a toaster.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
45 words
An electric toaster oven as recited in claim 7, wherein said detecting unit is interlocked with a selector knob for selectively changing the mode of controlling said heater or heaters mode of operation of said electric toaster oven as a toaster or as an oven.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
53 words
An electric toaster oven as receited in claim 7, wherein said detecting unit is interlocked with a door of said baking chamber for putting said article into and taking out said article from said baking chamber therethrough so that said detecting unit is moved from said detecting position when said door is opened.
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