Patent ID: 7049567

Claim:
A wall-mounted type microwave oven comprising: an oven body for mounting in a cooking area, and which includes a cooking chamber and an electrical component compartment which are isolated from each other; an exhaust flow path isolated from the cooking chamber and the electrical component compartment, which communicates between a lower portion of the oven body and an upper portion of the oven body to exhaust air existing under the oven body to an outside of the cooking area; a ventilation flow path positioned near a front portion of the microwave oven, which communicates between an inside of the cooking chamber and a front air outlet of the oven body to ventilate the cooking chamber; a communicating flow path which is provided in the oven body and communicates between the exhaust flow path and the ventilation flow path; and a path-converting device which is provided in the communicating flow path and selectively changes a discharging direction of the air exhausted from the cooking chamber toward one of the front air outlet and the exhaust flow path.