Patent ID: 8164036

Claim:
A cooking apparatus, comprising: a cooking cavity; a door rotatably coupled to the cooking cavity and configured to open and to close the cooking cavity; a control panel provided on the door; a bracket provided in the door and configured to protect the control panel from heat generated in the cooking cavity during a cooking operation; and a middle plate provided in the door, at a position beneath the bracket, wherein the middle plate is configured to prevent heat from the cooking cavity from transferring to an outside of the cooking apparatus, wherein a cooling flow path extends from one side of the cooking cavity to the door, wherein a cooling flow passes along the flow path and into the door, and wherein the bracket is positioned in the cooling flow path so as to direct a majority of the cooling flow into the door and along one lateral side of the middle plate, and wherein the bracket includes an inclined surface, with wherein the inclined surface of the bracket is configured to turn cooling flow impinging thereon towards the one lateral side of the middle plate.