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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2021
Applicant:
Midea Group Co., Ltd., Foshan, CN;
Inventors:
Vern A. Neal, Louisville, KY (US);
Clayton James O'Donoghue, Simpsonville, KY (US);
Assignee:
MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD., Guangdong, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/042 (2006.01); F24C 15/00 (2006.01); F24C 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/042 (2013.01); F24C 1/00 (2013.01); F24C 15/00 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2643 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cooking appliance may employ one or both of a post-preheat phase and a two stage preheat phase to both accelerate preheating of an oven cavity while minimizing temperature differentials therein. A post-preheat phase may be performed subsequent to a preheat phase, but prior to a cooking phase, to cycle a cooking element disposed in a cooler portion of an oven cavity to reduce a temperature differential between the top and bottom of the oven cavity. A two stage preheat phase may sequentially activate each of top and bottom cooking elements in an oven cavity a single time.