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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/70 ; H05B 6/72 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/70 ; H05B 6/72 ;
Abstract
A device and a method for microwave feeding of an oven cavity by means of a coupling slot (,) which is fed by a waveguide. The a-dimension of the waveguide is significantly larger than the effective a-dimension of the slot. The slot comprised a radiating main slot part (,) and slot extensions (,) projecting from it at its respective sides, which extension have a substantially smaller cross-dimension than the b-dimension of the main slot part.