Patent ID: 11873997
Assignee: HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  A | IPC A  F

Claim 7:
8. A method of operating an oven appliance comprising a plurality of chamber walls mounted within a cabinet and defining an oven chamber, a cooking surface defined in the oven chamber between a bottom wall and a top wall of the plurality of chamber walls, a bottom heating element mounted above the bottom wall to heat the cooking surface, and a top heating element mounted above the cooking surface to heat the oven chamber, the method comprising:
receiving one or more temperature signals from a first temperature sensor at the cooking surface and a second temperature sensor mounted above the first temperature sensor;
initiating cooking activation of the bottom heating element;
initiating high-output activation of the top heating element during cooking activation of the bottom heating element;
determining a restriction condition subsequent to initiating high-output activation of the top heating element, wherein determining the restriction condition comprises determining expiration of a high-output period between two and ten minutes; and
restricting, in response to determining the restriction condition, heat output at the top heating element during cooking activation of the bottom heating element.