Whirlpool Corporation

Prem Dhanasekaran

Vishal Shankar Marathe

Tushar Sopan Jadhav

Ankur Garg

Ravindra Balkrishna Salunkhe

Harichandra Prabhakar Lambate

Suraj Narendra Kadam

Mohasin Nasir Mulla

Sujay Sampat Shelke

Vishal Shrimandhar Masutage

Swapnil Anant Wadkar

An oven includes a cooking chamber, a cabinet at least partially surrounding the cooking chamber, and a water reservoir having a reservoir inlet and a reservoir outlet. The oven further includes a water fill assembly including an opening, a water-receiving cavity and a fill outlet from the water-receiving cavity, the water fill assembly defining a fluid flow path in from the opening and out through the fill outlet, a check valve in fluid communication with the fill outlet downstream of the fluid flow path defined by the water fill assembly, the check valve configured in a closed state under a force of gravity on at least a portion thereof and opening by a flow force of fluid out of the fill outlet and through the check valve, and a conduit connecting the check valve with the water reservoir inlet downstream of the fill outlet.

Steam oven with check valve at water inlet for steam backflow prevention

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Tamil Nadu, India

Prem Dhanasekaran