US 12,256,481 B2
Household microwave appliance having mode variation apparatus
Sebastian Sterz, Großaitingen (DE); Markus Kuchler, Gstadt am Chiemsee (DE); Kerstin Rigorth, Mühldorf (DE); and Matthias Vogt, Obersulm (DE)
Assigned to BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/624,855
Filed by BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/069062
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 5, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/005030, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 210 119.4 (DE), filed on Jul. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0264711 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H05B 6/68 (2006.01); H05B 6/64 (2006.01); H05B 6/72 (2006.01); H05B 6/74 (2006.01)
CPC H05B 6/68 (2013.01) [H05B 6/6432 (2013.01); H05B 6/6411 (2013.01); H05B 6/725 (2013.01); H05B 6/74 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A household microwave appliance, comprising:
a cooking chamber exposable to microwaves;
a mode variation apparatus designed to modify a field distribution of the microwaves in the cooking chamber; and
a microwave leakage sensor designed to detect a microwave leakage radiation exiting from the cooking chamber,
said household microwave appliance being designed
to vary setting values of the mode variation apparatus, and
to set an operating point of the mode variation apparatus based on a quantity of measurement data of the detected microwave leakage radiation resulting from a variation.