US 12,082,329 B2
Cooking appliance
Hag Soo Kim, Seoul (KR); Eui Sung Kim, Seoul (KR); and Sung Mun Yoon, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS, INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on May 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/143,464.
Application 18/143,464 is a division of application No. 16/739,495, filed on Jan. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,683,865.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0004169 (KR), filed on Jan. 11, 2019; application No. 10-2019-0040378 (KR), filed on Apr. 5, 2019; and application No. 10-2019-0082347 (KR), filed on Jul. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0300956 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H05B 6/06 (2006.01); F24C 7/08 (2006.01); H05B 6/12 (2006.01)
CPC H05B 6/1245 (2013.01) [F24C 7/08 (2013.01); H05B 6/062 (2013.01); H05B 2206/02 (2013.01); H05B 2213/03 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cooking appliance, comprising:
a housing having a cooking compartment, a bottom part, and a base, the bottom part defining a bottom surface of the cooking compartment and the base of the housing below the bottom part; and
an induction heating part installed between the bottom part and the base, the induction heating part including:
a working coil installed adjacent to the bottom part for inductively heating an object in the cooking compartment;
a receiver coil installed adjacent to the base for wirelessly receiving power from a coil of another appliance to operate the cooking appliance, wherein a center axis of the receiver coil and a center axis of the working coil are aligned; and
a control board configured to supply the working coil with power received from the receiver coil.