Cooking appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9976749-B2
Application number	US-201514706035-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 7, 2015
Priority date	May 8, 2014
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A cooking appliance having a coupling structure of components to a control panel. The cooking appliance includes a main body provided with a heating unit, a control panel on at least a portion of the main body, a coupled knob unit for controlling a condition of the heating unit, the knob unit coupled to the control panel, and a bracket coupled to the knob unit to fix a coupling position of the knob unit. Accordingly, during a manufacturing process or a use process, the knob unit can be prevented from being biased with respect to the control panel in an arbitrary one direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cooking appliance, comprising:
a main body provided with a heating unit;
a control panel on at least a portion of the main body;
a valve, at least a portion of which is disposed inside the main body to adjust an amount of gas supplied into the heating unit, the valve comprising a body section, and a coupling shaft which passes through the control panel;
a knob unit coupled to the control panel outside of the main body and couple-able to the valve to adjust opening/closing level of the valve to control the amount of the gas supplied into the heating unit, the coupling shaft of the valve being coupled to the knob unit; and
a bracket coupled to the knob unit and the control panel inside the main body and to the valve disposed inside the main body, to be disposed between the valve and the knob unit, to thereby fix a coupling position of the knob unit to the control panel and fix a position of the valve with respect to the control panel through the bracket coupled to the knob unit, the control panel and the valve,
the bracket including a valve coupling section coupled to a part of the body section and a knob coupling section projecting in the body section.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the valve is inserted into the bracket, and the valve is inserted into the knob unit.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the knob coupling section is configured to support a rear surface of the knob unit toward the inside of the main body, and the valve coupling section is configured such that at least a portion of the valve is inserted thereinto.

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the knob unit is coupled to a front surface of the control panel, and the bracket is coupled to a rear surface of the control panel toward the inside of the main body.

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , further comprising a burner coupled to the heating unit and configured to heat the heating unit using the supplied gas,
wherein the burner receives a gas through a main pipe.

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 5 , further comprising at least one sub pipe having one side of the sub pipe connected to the main pipe and another other side of the sub pipe connected to the valve, thereby the sub pipe connecting the valve and the main pipe.

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 6 , wherein the sub pipe is coupled to the valve to connect the valve to the main pipe.

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 5 , wherein the main pipe is divided into a plurality of branch pipes to be connected to the valve.

9. The cooking appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the knob unit comprises a manipulation unit and a holder unit, the manipulation unit disposed to couple to the holder unit at a front surface of the control panel to be manipulated, and the holder unit configured to fix the manipulation unit to the front surface of the control panel.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 9 , further comprising a fixing member coupled between the manipulation unit and the holder unit to prevent the manipulation unit from being separated from the holder unit.

11. A cooking appliance, comprising:
a main body provided with a heating unit;
a control panel on at least a portion of the main body;
a valve configured to adjust an amount of gas supplied into the heating unit, and coupled to the control panel, the valve comprising a body section, and a coupling shaft which passes through the control panel;
a knob unit including a manipulation unit and a holder unit, the manipulation unit coupled at a front surface of the control panel to the valve to adjust opening/closing level of the valve to control the amount of the gas supplied into the heating unit, and a holder unit configured to fix the manipulation unit, the coupling shaft of the valve being coupled to the knob unit;
a bracket inside the main body and coupled to the knob unit and the control panel, the bracket being configured to maintain the knob unit in a position with respect to the control panel and to maintain a position of the valve with respect to the control panel through coupling with the knob unit; and
a fixing member disposed inside the main body and coupled to the holder unit of the knob unit interposed between the knob unit and the valve and configured to prevent the knob unit from being biased in an arbitrary one direction,
the bracket including a valve coupling section coupled to a part of the body section and a knob coupling section projecting in the body section.

12. The cooking appliance according to claim 11 , wherein the fixing member is formed of a flexible material to attenuate an impact generated due to a contact of the knob unit with the control panel.

13. The cooking appliance according to claim 11 , wherein the valve is among a plurality of valves, and
the cooking appliance further comprises at least one main pipe configured to supply the gas into the heating unit, and a plurality of branch pipes branched off from the main pipe to be coupled to at least one of the valves.

14. The cooking appliance according to claim 13 , wherein one branch pipe is connected to the plurality of valves, and
the one branch pipe is directly coupled to the plurality of valves.

15. The cooking appliance according to claim 13 , wherein one branch pipe is connected to one valve.

16. The cooking appliance according to claim 14 , further comprising sub pipes configured to connect respectively the plurality of branch pipes and the plurality of valves.

17. The cooking appliance according to claim 16 , wherein the one branch pipe is connected to one sub pipe, and the one sub pipe is connected to the one valve.

18. A cooking appliance, comprising:
a main body including a control panel surface;
a valve, at least a portion of which is disposed inside the main body to adjust an amount of gas supplied into the heating unit, the valve comprising a body section, and a coupling shaft which passes through the control panel;
a knob unit including a manipulation unit, the knob unit coupled to the control panel outside surface to adjust an operation, the coupling shaft of the valve being coupled to the knob unit; and
a bracket inside the main body and coupled to the knob unit and the control panel, the bracket configured to maintain the knob unit in a first position with respect to the control panel surface and to not deviate to a second position with respect to the control panel surface,
the bracket including a valve coupling section coupled to a part of the body section and a knob coupling section projecting in the body section.

19. The cooking appliance according to claim 18 , wherein the coupling shaft of the valve is coupled to the knob unit to enable the valve to be opened/closed according to an operation of the knob unit.

20. The cooking appliance according to claim 19 , wherein the knob coupling section of the bracket is configured to support a rear surface of the knob unit inside the main body, and the valve coupling section of the knob unit is coupled to support at least a portion of a surface of the valve.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Sung Pyo
• Kim Sung Kwang
• Hwang Yun Ic

Classifications

• F24C3/12 Primary

  Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices · CPC title

• F24C3/126 Primary

  on ranges · CPC title

• H01H13/14

  Operating parts, e.g. push-button · CPC title