Global Patent Index - EP 0271981 A3

EP 0271981 A3 19881130 - MICROWAVE CONTAINER AND METHOD OF USING SAME

Title (en)

MICROWAVE CONTAINER AND METHOD OF USING SAME

Publication

EP 0271981 A3 19881130 (EN)

Application

EP 87309398 A 19871023

Priority

  • CA 508812 A 19860509
  • US 94356386 A 19861218

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0271981A2] A container for holding a body (160) of material such as foodstuff to be heated in a microwave oven, including a dielectric lid (161) and/or other dielectric wall structure with at least two contiguous dielectric wall portions (166,168) of respectively different electrical thickness for co-operatively modifying the microwave electric field patterns that would obtain in the body during such heating if the lid and/or other dielectric wall structure were of uniform electrical thickness or were absent. At least one of the portions, preferably the portion of higher electrical thickness, may be so constituted as to undergo a change in dielectric constant during the microwave heating, thereby to alter the heating distribution in the body as heating proceeds.

IPC 1-7

B65D 81/34; H05B 6/64

IPC 8 full level

A47J 27/00 (2006.01); B65D 81/34 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

B65D 81/3453 (2013.01); B65D 2581/3441 (2013.01); B65D 2581/3472 (2013.01); B65D 2581/3487 (2013.01); B65D 2581/3489 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE ES FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0271981 A2 19880622; EP 0271981 A3 19881130; EP 0271981 B1 19920506; AU 597742 B2 19900607; AU 8051187 A 19880623; BR 8705880 A 19880705; DE 3778853 D1 19920611; DK 231487 A 19871110; DK 231487 D0 19870506; DK 563287 A 19880619; DK 563287 D0 19871027; ES 2031910 T3 19930101; JP H0825584 B2 19960313; JP S63178971 A 19880723; MX 161944 A 19910308; NZ 222374 A 19900226

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 87309398 A 19871023; AU 8051187 A 19871030; BR 8705880 A 19871030; DE 3778853 T 19871023; DK 231487 A 19870506; DK 563287 A 19871027; ES 87309398 T 19871023; JP 27461687 A 19871029; MX 909287 A 19871030; NZ 22237487 A 19871030