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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Inventor:
Robert Scott Donarski, Stevensville, MI (US);
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F24C 1/04 (2006.01); F24C 3/08 (2006.01); F24C 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F24C 1/04 (2013.01); F24C 3/087 (2013.01); F24C 7/06 (2013.01); F24C 7/062 (2013.01);
Abstract
An oven has a cooking cavity and a gas heating element provided at a lower portion of the cooking cavity and a low power electric heating element provided at an upper portion of the cooking cavity. Thermal radiation provided to the upper portion by the electric heating element combined with reflected thermal radiation provided from the gas heating element is enough to broil a food item in a predetermined broiling cycle of the oven.