US 12,447,508 B2
Home cooking appliance having an integrated door glass surface cleaner for automatic removal of cooking debris
Garrett Bentley, Knoxville, TN (US); and Luc Lam, Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corporation, Irvine, CA (US); and BSH Haugeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed by BSH Home Appliances Corporation, Irvine, CA (US); and BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed on May 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/738,067.
Prior Publication US 2023/0358409 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B08B 1/00 (2024.01); B08B 1/16 (2024.01); B08B 1/20 (2024.01); B08B 1/54 (2024.01); F24C 15/02 (2006.01); F24C 15/04 (2006.01)
CPC B08B 1/165 (2024.01) [B08B 1/20 (2024.01); B08B 1/54 (2024.01); F24C 15/023 (2013.01); F24C 15/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A home cooking appliance comprising:
a housing having a cooking cavity;
a door for providing access to an opening of the cooking cavity, the door having a glass surface facing an interior of the cooking cavity when the door is in a closed state, at least a portion of the door being configured to be retractable into a cavity adjacent to a wall of the cooking cavity upon moving the door into an open state; and
one or more surface cleaning mechanisms in the cavity and configured to remove debris from at least a portion of the glass surface in the cavity during at least one of a retraction of the door into the cavity, or an extraction of the door from the cavity, or a combination thereof.