Whirlpool Corporation

Rocco Galli

Vincent P Gurubatham

Claudio Civanelli

Fabrizio Dughiero

Francesco Farachi

Davide Gerola

An electric oven includes a box casing presenting side walls, a rear wall, an upper wall and a lower wall, an opening and a closure door for this latter, the walls bounding an oven cavity heated by heating structure functionally associated with at least one of the walls. The heating structure is arranged to heat the cavity by induction and includes a generator arranged to generate an electromagnetic field, an electrically insulating material disposed between the generator and the oven wall at which the heating structure is positioned, and magnetically insulating structure is disposed on the outside of the oven with reference to the wall, the generator, the electrically insulating structure and the magnetically insulating structure defining a single, layered structure fitted to the oven wall.

Electric induction oven

A fluid dynamic diverter valve is provided which has a valve body with a fluid inlet zone communicating with a fluid diversion zone, which in turn communicates with a fluid outlet zone. In the fluid inlet zone there is at least one inlet for a fluid, at least one air inlet and a venturi passage for guiding the fluid as a jet. In a passage downstream of the venturi passage the air inlet communicates with the fluid jet exiting the venturi passage and the jet enters the diversion zone. Depending on whether the air inlet is blocked or not, the fluid jet either continues straight through the diversion zone to a first outlet from the valve body or, if the air stream is blocked, the jet is diverted to impinge upon a wall in the diversion chamber, the wall being arranged to be directed toward a different one of the outlet openings in the fluid outlet zone. A second (or more) air inlet might be provided and a third (or more) body outlet may be provided such that selective blocking of one of the air inlets will cause the fluid jet to be diverted in the diversion zone to a different one of the body outlet openings. A control may be provided in combination with the valve for controlling the air flow into the air inlets which may be in the form of a low power actuator. The diverter valve can be used in a wide variety of applications and has particular usefulness in a domestic appliance such as an automatic washer or dishwasher.

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Travedona Monate, Italy

Rocco Galli