Patent ID: 8680449

Claim:
A cooking apparatus, comprising: a cooking cavity defined by an inner case having an opened front side and its remaining sides closed; a front frame supporting a peripheral end of the front side of the inner case; a rear frame supporting a peripheral end of a rear side of the inner case; a component room located to a rear of the rear side of the inner case and provided with a plurality of components used for a cooking process in the cooking cavity; an external case connected to the front frame and the rear frame and having a shape that encompasses a top side and two opposite lateral sides of the inner case; an upper space defined between the external case and the top side of the inner case between the front frame and the rear frame, and two lateral spaces respectively defined between the external case and the two opposite lateral sides of the inner case between the front frame and the rear frame, wherein the rear frame isolates the component room from the upper space and the lateral spaces, and wherein the rear frame includes an opening so that the component room can communicate with the upper space and/or the component room can communicate with the lateral spaces; and a cover connected to the rear frame or the external case to define the component room behind the inner case and the rear frame.