EP1559959B1 - Four avec un unité chauffage / ventilateur - Google Patents

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EP1559959B1
EP1559959B1 EP04380262A EP04380262A EP1559959B1 EP 1559959 B1 EP1559959 B1 EP 1559959B1 EP 04380262 A EP04380262 A EP 04380262A EP 04380262 A EP04380262 A EP 04380262A EP 1559959 B1 EP1559959 B1 EP 1559959B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
    • F24C7/06—Arrangement or mounting of electric heating elements
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C15/00—Details
    • F24C15/32—Arrangements of ducts for hot gases, e.g. in or around baking ovens
    • F24C15/322—Arrangements of ducts for hot gases, e.g. in or around baking ovens with forced circulation
    • F24C15/325—Arrangements of ducts for hot gases, e.g. in or around baking ovens with forced circulation electrically-heated

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  • the present invention relates to a domestic baking oven incorporating a convection assembly with an electric heater, which is provided with a flat support for the electric heater resistor assembled in combination with an air fan for the heat distribution in the baking chamber.
  • Domestic baking ovens fitted with an electric heater assembly in the baking chamber, of the type for the convection of the heat generated by a circular-shaped electrical heating resistor, which is associated with a fan mounted at the centre of the rear wall of the chamber, are already known.
  • the fan distributes the air heated by the resistor all round the baking chamber, for which purpose additional walls in the chamber form a cooled air intake duct towards the resistor and one or more ducts for impelling the air heated in its flow towards the chamber by the resistor.
  • heater assemblies are fitted in the oven chamber by means of the separate individual fixing of component of the heater assembly, the fan, the resistor and its electrical connector, a support bracket for the resistor insulated electrically from the metallic casing of the oven, and the additional walls forming the forced air ducts.
  • this type of baking oven are those disclosed in WO-02/39021-A1 , EP-319373-A1 and in GB 1598333 A .
  • a domestic baking oven that incorporates a forced air heater, as that disclosed in EP-852317-A1 , whose electrical heating resistor is the type with a thick film deposited on several flat panels, which are arranged in the baking chamber in front of the convector fan and, in addition, form the forced hot air flow delivering and distribution ducts.
  • This construction of the convection ducts needs various flat supports for the resistors, which have to be installed in a succession in the oven carrying out a mounting operation separate from that of the fan.
  • the components comprised in the convection heater are supplied separately for assembly of the oven, being further fixed individually to the metal structure of the oven, and special means are required for fixing each component, such as for the fan and the resistor panels as well as for the electrical connectors.
  • the object of the present invention is a domestic baking oven according to claim 1.
  • the heater assembly according to the invention is formed as a separate supply unit, including the convection fan, one or more flat resistors in thermal contact with a panel supporting the resistors which is traversed by the air flow generated from the baking chamber by the fan, and the electrical connection means, so that for its installation it is handled as a single sub-assembly separate from the oven structure, which permits its installation in different domestic baking oven models by means of a single connection device between the fan and the heater panel, which in turn acts as a support for the single heater assembly, fixed directly to the rear wall of the chamber by means of quick-fixing accessories and without the use of additional walls for forming the forced hot air flow force and distribution ducts.
  • the heater assembly of the invention has the advantage of being provided with a single resistor substrate-panel, which is completely flat and economical to manufacture, besides providing efficient heating as the circulating air is heated against the two opposing faces of the flat substrate-panel.
  • one embodiment of the baking oven 1 comprises a baking chamber 3 formed by means of a vertical rear oven wall 2 and a number of adjacent metallic walls 2a, and a heater assembly 4 fixed on said rear wall 2 in order to generate a flow of forced hot air distributed all round chamber 3.
  • the heater assembly 4 comprises a radial blade fan 8 driven by a motor 9 a rotary fan shaft 10 forcing the hot air delivery flow 6, a heater support panel 11, 12 in the form of a flat plate with two sides, a front one 11a and a rear one 11b, bearing on one of them a flat heating resistor 12 in thermal contact with the respective face 11a, 11b, and a single connecting and support device 7 fixed to the rear wall 2, all of them installed as a single sub-assembly 7-12, including the means for electrical connection 16 as well.
  • the heater panel 11, 12 carrying the heating resistor 12 is preferably structured as a substantially flat substrate strip 11, on either the front face 11a or rear face 11b of which there is placed in thermal contact a flat resistor or preferably deposited a thick film heating resistor 12, in order to improved thermal transmission to the substrate-panel 11, which is made of a metal sheet coated with an electrical insulating layer which is at the same time a good thermal conductor.
  • the heater assembly 4 is mounted on the rear wall 2 of the oven solely by means of the connecting device 7, which is fixed directly to the rear wall 2 of the chamber by means of screws or quick-fastening accessories of the turn-and-lock type, not shown in the drawings.
  • the connecting device 7 is made up of a circular central plate 7a which is placed in contact with the rear wall 2, and from its periphery there project a number of radial arms 13 extended in the form of a funnel widening in the direction of the chamber 3, leaving air flow openings 14 between them.
  • the central plate 7a is crossed by the rotary shaft 10 of the fan securing it, for purposes of supporting the fan 8 and its motor 9 in the heater assembly.
  • the substrate-panel 11 carrying the heating resistor 12 is substantially ring-shaped with an outside diameter referred to in figure 1 as "De", and it is made of a metal sheet, such as of stainless steel having a high strength for coupling to the connecting device 7.
  • the annular substrate 11 has a central opening 11c with a diameter "D1" on the edge of which it is supported, connected to the radial arm ends 13a of said coupling device 7, the substrate 11 positioned on a plane parallel to that of rotation of the blades 8 and separated from the rear wall 2 by a space of width "W".
  • the length of the fan shaft 10 crossing the space "W" determines an equivalent separation distance between the plane of the blades 8 and the rear wall 2.
  • the force flow ducts for a part of the hot air flow supply which is first directed at the baking chamber 3 by way of the hollows 14 between two radial support arms 13, on the rear face 11b of the heating panel 11,12, and then distributed by way of the peripheral space between the heater assembly 4 and the adjacent walls 2a of the oven.
  • the circular periphery of the rotary blades 8 is substantially interposed inside the heater panel 11,12, so that a portion of the hot air flow 6 is due to the central intake air flow 5 sucked by the fan 8, which runs over the front face 11a of the heater panel.
  • the heater assembly 4 is installed as a single supply sub-assembly on the rear wall 2 of the oven by means of a single operation for fitting the whole heater assembly 4, including the fan motor 9 and its thermal insulation from the oven walls.
  • the opening 15 in the rear wall 2 required for this operation has a diameter larger than the diameter "Dm" of motor 9.
  • the central support plate 7a has a diameter "Ds" larger than the through-hole opening 15 in the wall, so it is placed in contact with the rear wall 2 internally.
  • the electrical connection cables 16 of the heating resistor are run to the outside of the oven by way of the intermediate space "W", guided on the radial arms 13 of the support, thus terminating the heater assembly 4 installation operation in the chamber 3 of the oven.

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  1. Four domestique, équipé d'un ensemble de chauffage électrique (4) pour chauffer la chambre du four (3), du type utilisant la convection d'un courant d'air chaud (6) généré au moyen d'une résistance électrique plate (12), le four (1) comprenant une paroi arrière (2) et un certain nombre de parois de chambre adjacentes (2a), un ventilateur de convection (8, 9, 10) présentant un moteur (9) et un arbre rotatif (10), au moins un panneau (11) pour supporter la résistance chauffante (12), et des moyens (7a, 13a) pour connecter le ventilateur (8, 9, 10) et ledit au moins un panneau (11) auxdites parois (2, 2a), dans lequel un courant d'air chaud (6) est forcé et distribué à travers la chambre du four (3) au moyen d'une conduite composée desdites parois (2, 2a) et dudit au moins un panneau (11), dans lequel l'ensemble de chauffage (4) est muni d'un seul panneau (11) pour supporter la résistance électrique (12), qui est substantiellement plate et agencée en parallèle à la paroi arrière (2), en étant séparée de cette dernière par une largeur d'espacement W donnée, caractérisé en ce que la résistance électrique (12) est annulaire, le ventilateur de convection (8, 9, 10) est monté au centre de la paroi arrière (2), l'ensemble de chauffage (4) est muni d'un dispositif (7) pour accoupler aussi bien le ventilateur (8) et son moteur (9) que ledit au moins un panneau (11), comme un seul moyen de support de l'ensemble de chauffage (4) sur la paroi arrière (2), de manière à ce que l'ensemble de chauffage (4) soit construit comme un sous-ensemble (7 à 10) qui peut être monté globalement au cours d'une seule opération directement sur la paroi arrière (2) de la chambre.
  2. Four selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit dispositif (7) pour accoupler et supporter l'ensemble de chauffage (4) est muni d'une plaque centrale (7a) fixée à la paroi arrière (2) de la chambre, et de moyens (13, 14) pour accoupler ledit au moins un panneau (11) à ladite plaque centrale (7a) séparée de ce dernier par ladite largeur d'espacement "W", formant ainsi une conduite pour forcer un courant d'air entre ladite paroi arrière (2) et ledit au moins un panneau (11, 12).
  3. Four selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit dispositif (7) accouplant et supportant l'ensemble de chauffage (4) est muni d'une plaque centrale (7a) fixée à la paroi arrière (2) de la chambre et d'un certain nombre de bras radiaux (13) étendus dans la direction de la chambre (3) supportant ledit au moins un panneau (11, 12) séparé par ladite largeur d'espacement "W" de la paroi arrière, formant une conduite pour forcer ledit courant d'air (6) entre ladite paroi arrière (2) et ledit au moins un panneau (11, 12).
  4. Four selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit au moins un panneau (11, 12) présente une ouverture centrale (11c) dans laquelle est interposé le plan de rotation des aubes radiales du ventilateur de convection (8), séparé de la paroi arrière (2) par son arbre rotatif (10) pour forcer le courant d'air (6) contre les deux faces dudit au moins un panneau (11, 12).
  5. Four selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit au moins un panneau (11, 12) prend la forme d'une plaque plate munie d'une ouverture centrale (11c) pour l'interposition des aubes tournantes du ventilateur (8) et d'un bord périphérique (13a) pour son support au moyen dudit ensemble de chauffage accouplant le dispositif (7).
  6. Four selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit au moins un panneau (11, 12) supportant la résistance électrique (12) prend la forme d'une feuille de substrat métallique (11) avec deux surfaces chauffantes avant (11a) et arrière (11b) et la résistance électrique (12) est du type comprenant une couche épaisse déposée sur une surface (11a, 11 b), et avec une ouverture centrale (11c) dans le substrat chauffant dans lequel le plan de rotation des aubes de ventilateur (8) est interposé, de sorte que le courant d'air (5, 6) généré par le ventilateur (8) est chauffé sur les deux surfaces (11a, 11b) de la feuille de substrat.
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