Oven Cooling Airflow Layout for Full-Cabinet Heat Dissipation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking apparatuses do not effectively cool all spaces, including the cooking cavity, rear space, upper space, lateral spaces, and door, and fail to retain the cooling flow for a sufficient duration, which can lead to inadequate cooling and potential heat damage to kitchen flooring.
Innovation Solution
A cooking apparatus design featuring a cooling flow path that extends from the rear space to the lower space, upper space, and lateral spaces, with a cooling fan located at the lower portion of the rear space, and a protective plate to guide the flow, ensuring effective cooling and protection of heat-sensitive flooring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a cooling flow path is provided only in part of the cooking apparatus, then the device complexity is reduced, but the cooling effectiveness of all spaces (cooking cavity, rear space, upper space, lateral spaces, and door) is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling flow path is designed to serve multiple spaces simultaneously. A single cooling flow path extends through the cooking cavity, rear space, upper space, lateral spaces, and door, allowing one cooling system to cool all major components and spaces of the cooking apparatus uniformly.
2Duration of action of moving object
If the cooling flow path is shortened, then the device complexity is reduced, but the cooling flow retention time is insufficient for effective cooling
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling flow path utilizes three-dimensional space efficiently by extending through multiple levels and regions of the cooking apparatus. The path moves from the cooking cavity through the rear space, upper space, lateral spaces, and door, maximizing the use of available spatial dimensions to achieve sufficient retention time without excessive path length.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If cooling flow is discharged directly to the lower space, then the device complexity is reduced, but the kitchen flooring may be damaged by overheating
Solution Approach 1:
A protective plate is introduced as an intermediary element between the cooling flow discharge and the kitchen flooring. The protective plate receives the discharged cooling flow and redirects it, preventing direct contact with the flooring and eliminating the risk of heat damage while maintaining the simplicity of the cooling system.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus achieves comprehensive cooling of all spaces by retaining the cooling flow, ensuring efficient heat dissipation and protecting kitchen flooring from overheating.
Implementation Method 1
a cooling fan located at the lower portion of the rear space
Implementation Method 2
achieves comprehensive cooling of all spaces by retaining the cooling flow, ensuring efficient heat dissipation
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AI summary
In order to provide a cooking apparatus that has a cooling flow path extended from a rear space to a lower space of the cooking apparatus, the present invention discloses a cooking apparatus, which comprises: a cooking cavity; a rear space located behind the cooking cavity; a lower space located under the cooking cavity; a cooling flow path extended from the rear space to the lower space; an inlet of the cooling flow path provided at the rear space; and an outlet of the cooling flow path provided at the lower space. Through this configuration, a flow can sufficiently remain in the cooking apparatus, and thus the cooking apparatus can effectively be cooled down. Also, a cooking apparatus with a cooling flow path from the rear space to the lower space can be provided.