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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
James Lee Armstrong, Louisville, KY (US);
Joshua Stephen Wiseman, Elizabethtown, KY (US);
James Tomaszewski, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/68 (2006.01); H05B 6/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/6447 (2013.01); H05B 6/6423 (2013.01);
Abstract
Microwave appliances and methods for operating microwave appliances are provided. A method includes operating a fan of the microwave appliance in order to draw a flow of air through a circulation conduit of the microwave appliance, measuring an operational characteristic of the fan with a sensor of the microwave appliance during the operating step, and providing an indicator signal when the operational characteristic exceeds a threshold value at the measuring step.