Patent ID: 6864472

Claim:
A wall-mounted microwave oven for use in cooking food comprising: a cabinet mounted at a rear surface thereof on a wall of a cooking space, and having a cooking chamber to cook the food therein, and a machine room to house a plurality of electrical components for use in cooking the food, and which is isolated from the cooking chamber; an exhaust path to exhaust contaminated air generated from a cooking appliance installed below the wall-mounted microwave oven; a cooling-ventilation path to cool the machine room and to ventilate the cooking chamber; and a blower fan assembly including a drive motor having a pair of shafts at both ends thereof to generate a rotating force, an exhaust fan joined to one shaft of the drive motor to create a suction force and a propulsive force to cause the contaminated air to flow along the exhaust path, and a cooling-ventilation fan joined to the other shaft of the drive motor to create a suction force and a propulsive force to cause air to flow along the cooling-ventilation path.