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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2004
Seog Tae Kim, Changwon-si, KR;
Seog Tae Kim, Changwon-si, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus for exhausting pollutant for a microwave oven, the apparatus comprising: a sensor part formed at a predetermined portion of the microwave oven, for detecting fumes and/or moisture contained in polluted air generated during a cooking process; a controller for determining whether or not amount of the fumes and/or moisture detected by the sensor part is greater than a predetermined reference value; and a fan driving part operated, when the amount detected by the controller is greater than the reference value, by a driving signal from the controller and allowing air containing the pollutant to be inhaled and then removed from an interior.