Claims
- 1. An oven comprising an oven chamber provided at a front opening with a door which can be opened and closed, said oven chamber being provided with a halogen lamp operable to provide low and high outputs of light, and means responsive to opening of the door for reducing the output of said halogen lamp from said high level to said low level.
- 2. An oven according to claim 1, comprising a switch which opens in an interlocking relationship with the opening of the door, and a CPU which causes said reduced output upon detection of the opening of said switch.
Priority Claims (1)
| Number |
Date |
Country |
Kind |
| 1-138674[U] |
May 1989 |
JPX |
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
An oven using a halogen lamp as a heat source is conventionally known from JP-B-34426/1988.
While a halogen lamp is effective in scorching a material being cooked and the like, and also effective for lighting the oven chamber, it has a disadvantage in that it is so bright that it hurts the eyes if it is directly looked at.
This invention has an object of providing an oven without this kind of disadvantage.
In order to solve this kind of problem this invention is characterized by an oven comprising an oven chamber provided at a front opening with a door which can be opened and closed, the oven chamber being provided with a halogen lamp, wherein the halogen lamp is arranged such that the output thereof is largely dropped in interlocking with the opening of the door.
In the oven having the above-mentioned construction, it is possible to largely drop the output of the halogen lamp in interlocking with the opening of the door and, therefore, the lamp is not too bright to the eyes when the door is open.
US Referenced Citations (3)
Patent Grant
5097112
