Electric range and air guide included in the same

Abstract

The invention discloses an electric range. The electric range uses a single blower fan to cool both a drive circuit unit for controlling a heating unit and a display unit for displaying visual information to a user. The electric range comprises: a housing; a heating unit disposed inside the housing and heating an object to be heated; a drive circuit unit that is disposed inside the housing and drives the heating unit; a display unit which is disposed at the upper end of the housing and displays visual information relating to the operation of the heating unit to a user; a blower fan disposed on the lower surface of the housing and outputting air; and an air guide that guides the air output from the blower fan to the drive circuit unit, the air output from the blower fan being supplied to one end of the air guide, the height of the top surface of the one end of the air guide being higher than the height of the top surface of the blower fan with respect to the lower surface of the housing. A portion of the air output from the blower fan is discharged from a gap between a top surface of one end of the air guide and a top surface of the blower fan, and is supplied to the display unit.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an electric range, and more particularly, to an electric range capable of collectively cooling a drive circuit portion for controlling a heating portion and a display portion for displaying visual information to a user with a single blower fan. Background technique [0002] At home or in restaurants, various types of cooking equipment are used to heat food. The cooking equipment includes a gas range using gas and an electric range using electricity. [0003] The electric cooker is mainly divided into a resistance heating method and an induction heating method. [0004] The resistance heating method is to apply current to a metal resistance wire or a non-metallic heating element (such as silicon carbide) to generate heat, and radiate or conduct the generated heat to heat the object to be heated (as an example, pots, pans, etc.) cooking utensils) way. [0005] The induction heating method is a method of applying high-f...

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Problems solved by technology

[0010] However, in the prior art, only a flow path that allows cold air to pass through the lower portion of the heating portion 22 and the light source unit 24 is formed, so that there is no way to intensively cool high-temperature components among electrical components in the lower portion of the heating portion 22 by guiding the cold air. The problem

In addition, in the related art, there is a problem that the light source unit 23 cannot be cooled intensively by guiding cold air.

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