Patent ID: 9383112
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: F24C

Claim Text:
1. A cooking appliance, comprising: a cabinet; a top plate seated on an upper portion of the cabinet; an intake passage through which outer air drawn in from outside the cabinet flows; a burner assembly provided within the cabinet, to combust a gas mixture of gas and air drawn into the intake passage, wherein the burner assembly includes a burner pot to which the gas mixture is supplied, a combustion mat to combust the gas mixture in the burner port, a burner frame disposed above the burner pot and under the top plate, and a tube assembly having one or more mixing tubes to supply the gas mixture to the burner pot, wherein the burner frame is connected to the burner pot and in contact with the combustion mat, and wherein a top surface of the burner frame and a bottom surface of the top plate define an exhaust passage, through which the combusted gas generated from combustion of the gas mixture in the burner assembly is exhausted; a nozzle assembly that supplies the gas to the tube assembly; a cooling passage formed partitioned from the intake passage, through which air to cool a plurality of components provided within the cabinet flows; and an air barrier that partitions the cooling passage and the intake passage, wherein the one or more mixing tubes passes through the air barrier, wherein the air barrier is disposed under the burner frame and between the burner frame and a bottom of the cabinet, wherein the air barrier, the tube assembly, the burner frame, the bottom of the cabinets are arranged to overlap in a vertical direction, and wherein the air barrier is disposed between the burner pot and the nozzle assembly.