GAS COOKTOP FIRE PREVENTION AND ALARM SYSTEM

摘要

A home cooking appliance includes a gas surface cooking unit and a gas cooktopfireprevention system. The gas surface cooking unit includes a gas burner, asupport surfaceconfigured to support a cooking vessel above the gas burner, a cooktop floorbelow the gasburner, and a gas supply line supplying gas to the gas burner. The gas cooktopfire preventionsystem includes a solenoid valve on the gas supply line and a gas supplycutoff unit configuredto detect a temperature of the cooktop floor and close the solenoid valve whenthe detectedtemperature of the cooktop floor is equal to or greater than a predeterminedthresholdtemperature of the cooktop floor, thereby cutting off a supply of the gasthrough the gas supplyline to the gas burner.