Patents by Inventor Rica Pantermehl

Rica Pantermehl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8716628
    Abstract: A household appliance for washing and/or drying clothes comprises an outer casing provided with a worktop and a front panel carrying operational input controls, an opening for loading and unloading clothes, a door for closing the opening, a rotational drum supported inside the casing. The worktop comprises a heating unit to dry garments disposed on the worktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Elisabetta Bari, Rica Pantermehl, Nicola Reid
  • Publication number: 20100037478
    Abstract: A laundry dryer (1), wherein the laundry is dried inside a rotating drum (3) by a stream (7) of hot air blown into the drum (3) through a perforated wall (5) of the drum (3); and wherein two single-pole ion generators (10, 11) are located along a path of the stream (7) of air, close to the perforated wall (5), and generate respective streams of ions of opposite polarities, which are blown, together with the air, into the drum (3) to eliminate the electrostatic charge produced in the laundry by the drying process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION N.V.
    Inventors: Andrei Uhov, Sergey Leonenkov, Claudio Cenedese, Rica Pantermehl, Monica Celotto
  • Publication number: 20090133285
    Abstract: Household appliance for washing and/or drying clothes comprising an outer casing (2) provided with a worktop (3) and a front panel (4) carrying operational input controls (5), an opening for loading and unloading clothes, a door (6) for closing the opening, a rotational drum supported inside the casing (2). The worktop (3) comprises heating means to dry garments disposed on the worktop (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Elisabetta Bari, Rica Pantermehl, Nicola Reid
  • Patent number: 7367137
    Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus comprising a cabinet (1) having external walls (2) and internal walls (3), said internal walls (3) defining an interior region (4) for receiving clothes, said apparatus further comprising a door (6) connected to said cabinet (1), at least a supporting device (5) for supporting clothes within said interior region, a ventilator (7), water supply means (8) and an ultrasonic nebulizer (9) operatively associated to said water supply means (8). Said apparatus is characterized in that the air within the interior region (4) is recirculated by said ventilator (7) through an air duct (10) located between said internal walls (3) and said external walls (2) forming a closed loop with said internal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Stefan A. Jonsson, Christer Wiss, Rica Pantermehl, Maurizio Del Pos, Jean-Yves Noel
  • Publication number: 20060179678
    Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus comprising a cabinet (1) having external walls (2) and internal walls (3), said internal walls (3) defining an interior region (4) for receiving clothes, said apparatus further comprising a door (6) connected to said cabinet (1), at least a supporting device (5) for supporting clothes within said interior region, a ventilator (7), water supply means (8) and an ultrasonic nebulizer (9) operatively associated to said water supply means (8). Said apparatus is characterized in that the air within the interior region (4) is recirculated by said ventilator (7) through an air duct (10) located between said internal walls (3) and said external walls (2) forming a closed loop with said internal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Jonsson, Christer Wiss, Rica Pantermehl, Maurizio Del Pos, Jean-Yves Noel