Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Russell W. Warnock
  • Patent number: 7472646
    Abstract: A domestic appliance comprising at least one housing part with a detent element and at least one second housing part with a detent counter-element. Said elements are designed to interconnect the housing parts and are associated with a locking element, which is used to secure the detent elements, when the locking element is in the locked position, from becoming detached from the detent counter-elements. The aim of the invention is to facilitate the assembly and disassembly of the detent device. To achieve this, the locking element comprises a first end that is supported on one of the housing parts and a second end that engages with the detent element in the locked position. The locking element can thus be pivoted back and forth in a simple manner between a release position and a locked position, facilitating a more rapid, simpler assembly and disassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Stanislav Mazej, Darko Ogrizek, Aleksander Sedovsek, Uros Semeja, Igor Zibret
  • Patent number: 7448374
    Abstract: A cooking compartment door of a cooking oven having a pyrolysis function in the cooking compartment, includes a borosilicate glass pane forming at least a portion of the cooking compartment door. The borosilicate glass pane is provided at least in sections with a colored layer. The colored layer provides impact resistance to the borosilicate glass pane by being applied to the surface of the borosilicate glass pane on the side opposite the cooking compartment. The colored layer is resistant to temperatures up to four hundred degrees Celsius and is not joined to the borosilicate glass pane surface by melting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Klemens Roch, Michael Wagner, Frank Jördens, Bernhard Walter
  • Patent number: 7445171
    Abstract: A motorized kitchen appliance provides a resilient fixation of a drive unit, surrounded by an outer wall, within a housing of the kitchen appliance. The drive unit is resiliently mounted in the housing through the use of projections and is fixed therein in the manner of a bayonet fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Marko Areh, Siegmund Kramer, Henrik Pavlovic, Michael Steffl, Igor Zibret
  • Patent number: 7444915
    Abstract: A drive unit for a food slicer has a housing and a bearing plate inside the housing. The bearing plate carries a transmission which transfers the rotation of a drive motor coupled to the mechanism to a circular blade that is rotatably mounted in a first bearing. The bearing plate has the first bearing for the circular blade, and the housing is provided with an opening through which the first bearing can be accessed from outside the housing. The slicer has the advantage of being especially quiet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kovacic, Aleksander Sedovsek
  • Patent number: 7446500
    Abstract: In an anti-crease operation incorporated after the program sections wash and spin to loosen laundry in the drum, the user should be offered the possibility of being able to actively influence this operation. For selecting the adjustable parameters for the duration and sequence of the anti-crease program the user is supported by a display and can depart upward or downward from predetermined values dependent on type or textile and loading after checking for compatibility. The detachment of the laundry ring at the inner wall of the drum can be monitored by measuring valid variables of state as a criterion for loosened and disentangled laundry at the beginning of the anti-crease operation in the reversing phases and comparing these with desired data which were determined in a short analysis section installed before the beginning of the actual wash program. As a result, errors in identifying a laundry ring can be largely avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Schulze, Martina Wöbkemeier
  • Patent number: 7446283
    Abstract: A cooking appliance and a method of controlling the cooking process in the cooking appliance. The cooking appliance includes a heating device, especially for grilling. To improve the browning process of food in the cooking appliance the radiation time of the cooking appliance is increased. The time is increased by a temporary cooling-down phase where the temperature is reduced, that is initiated by opening the cooking appliance door, for example, to turn the food being browned. The cooking appliance then increases the temperature again over a subsequent heating-up phase initiated by closing the cooking appliance door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Ramona Haberkamm
  • Patent number: 7444832
    Abstract: A cooling appliance (1) with circulated air cooling, comprising at least one cooling chamber (2) for reception of stock (3) to be cooled, at least one channel (4) for cooling air (5) and a coldness generator (12) for generating cooling air (5), wherein the channel (4) provides a fluid-conducting connection of the coldness generator (12) with the cooling chamber (2) and opens into the cooling chamber (2) by an outlet opening (6), wherein a jet forming means (7) is provided and wherein the jet forming means (7) is formed by a nozzle element (18) and/or by a spacer (10), by which the stock (3) to be cooled is kept at a spacing from the outlet opening (6), at the outlet opening (6). A precise, uniform and energy-saving temperature conditioning of the stock (3), which is to be cooled, in the cooling chamber (2) is made possible by the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Home Appllances Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle, Matthew Ricket, Ralf Spiller, Martin Wagner
  • Patent number: 7445655
    Abstract: A removable dust collector for use in a dust compartment of a vacuum cleaner is provided and includes a holder that maintains the dust collector in an operating position, and a locking member that is placed in a locking position when the dust collector is removed. A cover of the dust compartment is prevented from closing and is placed in a release position when the dust collector is in an operating position. The locking member is maintained in its release position either by means of a filter bag inserted into a carrier or by an actuating member associated with the dust collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Böck, Albert Kleinhenz, Michael Krammer
  • Patent number: 7445546
    Abstract: An extractor hood housing including at least one ventilator housing which the extractor hood housing forming at least a part of the ventilator housing. The extractor hood housing has at least one section of an external housing wall embodied by a part of the ventilator housing. The ventilator housing for a ventilator device mounted on the extractor hood includes at least one fan. The ventilator housing includes at least one engaging device for engaging a part of the extractor hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Slemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Hondmann, Jochen Krauter, Helmut Neuschl
  • Patent number: 7445005
    Abstract: A household appliance door, which is mounted in a manner that enables it to pivot about a joint axis, has a door handle that can pivot about a door handle axis running parallel to the joint axis. At least one controlling mechanism is associated with the door handle. When the door executes a pivotal movement in a first pivoting direction, the controlling mechanism pivots the door handle in a second pivoting direction opposite the first pivoting direction, as such, reliable actuation of the door handle is achieved. The door handle is pivotally mounted in a bearing housing and the bearing housing extends in an axial direction along the entire door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
  • Patent number: 7445128
    Abstract: A cutlery basket for use in a dishwasher. The cutlery basket receives the cutlery substantially horizontally in the dishwasher, including a base area for supporting the cutlery items. The base area having at least one pivoting articulation of a partial section of the base area that is arranged and configured with the base area in such a way that the partial section can be pivoted or lowered relative to the remaining non-pivoting section of the base area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kaczmarek
  • Patent number: 7445052
    Abstract: A fire protection and fire extinguishing device for a water-based domestic appliance containing at least one gas sensor and at least one water spraying system. The gas sensor generates a signal to disconnect the electrical supply of the domestic appliance while activating the at least one water spraying system when a predetermined amount of gas is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Jerg
  • Patent number: 7439835
    Abstract: A rotary selector as display console for contact-free on and off switching as well as for switching of the automatic control of a number of different cycles of electronically operated domestic applicances, such as washing machines, dryers, dishwashers or comparable units. The rotary selector (1) has mutually communicating catch devices and a plate arranged at a distance thereto with a rotary field sensor acording to Hall technology, whereby spring-loaded ball lockings enable defined and switchable rotation of an operating element (2) with magnetic device in ranges up to 360°, and whereby angle-dependent variables for control of a wide range of cycles are generated in a known manner in the rotary field sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Mike Dietrich, Thomas Kaltofen, Michael Lamprecht
  • Patent number: D579949
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kaczmarek
  • Patent number: D580113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Joachim Grützke, Jacques Helot, James Jenkins, Daniel Lentz, Matthew Ricket, Robert Sachon, Carsten Weber
  • Patent number: D580223
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Geiger, Graham Sadtler
  • Patent number: D580224
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Geiger, Graham Sadtler
  • Patent number: D580225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Geiger, Alexander Marsch, Graham Sadtler
  • Patent number: D580603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Gerhard Busalt, Joachim Gruetzke, James Jenkins, Matthew Ricket
  • Patent number: D581215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Geiger, Graham Sadtler