US 12,089,770 B2
Electric kettle
June Young Lee, Seoul (KR); Sang Ki Lee, Seoul (KR); Min Kyu Si, Seoul (KR); and Dae Yong Kang, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/586,066.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0014804 (KR), filed on Feb. 2, 2021; and application No. 10-2021-0155356 (KR), filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0240709 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. A47J 27/21 (2006.01); A47J 27/212 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 27/21008 (2013.01) [A47J 27/21175 (2013.01); A47J 27/21191 (2013.01); A47J 27/212 (2013.01); A47J 2203/00 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric kettle comprising:
a main body to receive fluid therein and provided with a fluid level window through which a level of the fluid contained inside the main body is visible;
a lid for covering an open upper side of the main body; and
a base for supporting the main body at a lower side of the main body,
wherein a flow path in which the fluid flows is formed in the fluid level window and a bottom surface of the flow path has a downward inclination relative to the main body,
wherein an entrance flow path is formed in each of upper part and lower part of the fluid level window, the entrance flow path connecting the flow path inside the fluid level window to an inside of the main body, and a bottom surface of the entrance flow path formed in the lower part of the fluid level window is inclined,
wherein the entrance flow path at the lower part of the fluid level window having an end portion depressed to form an entrance flow path groove, the entrance flow path groove is slantingly inclined to have a depth gradually decreasing going toward the main body.