Patent ID: 7225804
Filing Date: 2007-06-05
Classification: F24C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A cooking apparatus, comprising: an oven chamber which can be heated for a self-cleaning operation; an oven door movably opening and closing said chamber; a motor drivingly attached to an oven door latch for locking and unlocking said oven door; a monitor device for monitoring the position of said oven door latch; and a pulse device associated with said motor and said monitoring device for pulsing said motor between a first condition where said motor is excited into operation and a second condition where said motor is idle when said monitor indicates said oven door latch is not in the proper locking and unlocking position, said pulse device configured to, in response to a respective signal from said monitoring device indicating that said oven door latch is not in the proper locking and unlocking position, to repeatedly pulse said motor until said latch is in the proper locking and unlocking position as indicated by said monitoring device.