Patent ID: 7296565
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
1. A cooling apparatus of a cooking appliance comprising: a cabinet having a cooking chamber located therein and an electric component chamber located outside the cooking chamber; a door installed on the cabinet for opening and closing the cooking chamber, and having at least first and second channels so as to cause external air to flow into the electric component chamber and a part of the air to flow into the electric component chamber via side surfaces of the cooking chamber; and an air blower installed in the electric component chamber for forcibly sucking the external air and discharging air having cooled the door and the electric component chamber, wherein the door includes: at least first, second and third plates separated from each other to form the at least first and second channels, said second channel being closer to an inner surface of the door than the first channel; suction vents connected to the first channel formed through at least one surface of side surfaces and an upper surface of the door and for sucking air into the first channel; and at least one discharge vent connected to the second channel and for discharging air within the door to at least the electronic component chamber, and wherein the second plate between the first and third plates include circulation slits such that the air sucked into the first channel flows through the circulation slits and into the second channel and then discharges through the at least one discharge vent connected to the second channel.