Induction heating cooker

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9591698-B2
Application number	US-201414554345-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2014
Priority date	Nov 26, 2013
Publication date	Mar 7, 2017
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017

Abstract

An induction heating cooker including reinforced heat resistant glass on which a cooking vessel is placed, an induction coil unit located under the reinforced heat resistant glass and configured to generate a magnetic field, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided radially outside and vertically below the induction coil unit while being spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the induction coil unit, a plurality of convex lenses provided on front surfaces of the plurality of LEDs, respectively, a light blocking film provided on a lower surface of the reinforced heat resistant glass, and a slit formed in the light blocking film and allowing light radiated from the plurality of LEDs to pass therethrough, so that light radiated from the LEDs are slantingly projected to form an image of flame, which looks real, on a lower end portion of a side surface of the cooking vessel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An induction heating cooker comprising:
reinforced heat resistant glass on which a cooking vessel is placed;
an induction coil unit located under the reinforced heat resistant glass and configured to generate a magnetic field;
a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided radially outside and vertically below the induction coil unit while being spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the induction coil unit;
a printed circuit board which the plurality of LEDs are mounted thereon;
a plurality of convex lenses provided on front surfaces of the plurality of LEDs, respectively;
a light blocking film provided on a lower surface of the reinforced heat resistant glass; and
a slit formed in the light blocking film and allowing light radiated from the plurality of LEDs to pass therethrough.

2. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of LEDs are spaced apart from the induction coil unit in a radially outer side direction by 30 mm or above, and spaced apart from the reinforced heat resistant glass in a vertically lower side direction by 10 mm or above.

3. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of LEDs are disposed in a range between about 180 degrees and about 360 degrees along a circumferential direction of the induction coil unit.

4. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of LEDs are controlled as individual LEDs, as groups of LEDs or as a whole.

5. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , wherein a central axis of the convex lens is inclined.

6. The induction heating cooker of claim 5 , wherein the central axis of the convex lens has an inclination angle of between 40 degrees and 45 degrees.

7. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , wherein the slit has a ring shape.

8. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , wherein the slit is located radially inside the plurality of LEDs.

9. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , wherein the slit has a thickness of between 0.5 mm and 1 mm.

10. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , further comprising a hiding band provided on an upper surface of the reinforced heat resistant glass corresponding to a vertically upper side of the slit.

11. The induction heating cooker of claim 10 , wherein the hiding band has a ring shape.

12. The induction heating cooker of claim 10 , wherein the hiding band has a thickness of 4 mm or above and 5 mm or below.

13. The induction heating cooker of claim 1 , further comprising a heat insulating partition wall provided between the induction coil unit and the plurality of LEDs.

14. An induction heating cooker comprising:
reinforced heat resistant glass on which a cooking vessel is placed;
an induction coil unit located under the reinforced heat resistant glass and configured to generate a magnetic field;
at least one light emitting diode (LED) module provided radially outside and vertically below the induction coil unit while being arranged along a circumferential direction of the induction coil unit, the at least one LED module each having a printed circuit board and at least one LED mounted on the printed circuit board;
at least one cover module coupled to the at least one LED module, respectively, and each having at least one convex lens provided on a front surface of the at least one LED;
a light blocking film provided on a lower surface of the reinforced heat resistant glass; and
a slit formed in the light blocking film and allowing light radiated from the at least one LED module to pass therethrough.

15. The induction heating cooker of claim 14 , further comprising a support wall having a support surface configured to support the LED module and provided radially outside the induction coil unit.

16. The induction heating cooker of claim 15 , wherein the support surface is inclined.

17. The induction heating cooker of claim 14 , wherein the at least one cover module is provided as an integral body.

18. A method of displaying a virtual image on a cooking vessel placed on an induction heating cooker having a reinforced heat resistant glass on which the cooking vessel is placed;
generating a magnetic field through an induction coil unit located under the reinforced heat resistant glass;
mounting a plurality of light sources on a printed circuit board so that the plurality of light sources are disposed outside and below the induction coil unit;
emitting light through the plurality of light sources through a plurality of convex lenses on to a side of the cooking vessel.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein at least one of the plurality of convex lenses is configured to condense light radiated from the plurality of light sources and project light on to the side of the cooking vessel so that the virtual image is a flame shape.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Ji Hyeoung
• Kang Joon Seok
• Ireland Simon
• Lee Young Seok

Classifications

• G06T11/20

  Drawing from basic elements · CPC title

• H05B6/1218 Primary

  with arrangements using lights for heating zone state indication · CPC title

• H05B2206/022

  Special supports for the induction coils · CPC title

• G06F3/14

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title

• G06T11/00

  Two-dimensional [2D] image generation · CPC title