Patent ID: 7345261
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
1. A wall-mounted microwave oven comprising: a cooking chamber; a heater to generate hot air; a blowing fan to supply the hot air generated by the heater to the cooking chamber; a heater casing having the heater and the blowing fan installed therein such that the heater surrounds the blowing fan; first guide members to guide the hot air, supplied by the blowing fan, to be introduced into the cooking chamber; second guide members to guide and circulate the hot air along the heater; a motor arranged at a top wall of an oven body, and connected with the blowing fan via pulleys and a belt to transmit a drive force therefrom to the blowing fan; a fan shaft which extends horizontally through the heater casing and coupled with the blowing fan at an inner end thereof; and a pulley arranged outside of the heater casing and coupled with the fan shaft, wherein the rotating force from the motor is transmitted to the blowing fan via the belt connected between the pulley coupled to the motor shaft and the pulley arranged outside of the heater casing.