Patents Assigned to Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
  • Publication number: 20100071729
    Abstract: A water-conducting domestic appliance, in particular a domestic dishwasher, the water-conducting domestic appliance including a washing compartment for receiving items therein that are to be subjected to a washing cycle by the water-conducting domestic appliance; a door movable between an open position for permitting access to the washing compartment and a closed position for preventing access to the washing compartment; and a detergent dosing system, the detergent dosing system having a detergent dispenser with a receiving compartment, the receiving compartment for receiving at least one cartridge that is configured to hold at least one detergent, the detergent dosing system having the capability to store a quantity of detergent greater than a quantity needed for a single washing cycle and the one receiving compartment being configured such that, in the event that the door is partially opened, at least one cartridge can be inserted into the receiving compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Egbert Classen, Helmut Jerg
  • Publication number: 20090272136
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes an interior that can be illuminated by a light source and is surrounded by walls and a door, wherein the interior is illuminated by the light source from the direction of the door, in particular wherein the door has at least one glass area, light from the light source is coupled into the glass area from the direction of an edge, with the result that the light is at least partially guided in the glass area, and the glass area has elements through which some of the light which is guided in the glass area is conducted into the interior. This manner of illumination prevents articles in the interior from having a silhouetted appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte Gmbh
    Inventors: Sebastian Knöll, Gerhard Nüssler
  • Publication number: 20090272153
    Abstract: A washing machine which is designed for preparing hot water, having a water tank connected to an external water supply, and having a control and communication unit for controlling a process for preparing hot water and for communicating with an external unit, wherein the external unit is designed for providing information regarding energy costs for operating the washing machine, and the control and communication unit is designed such that it is possible to activate the process for preparing hot water in the water tank as a function of the information provided by the external unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Kaltofen
  • Publication number: 20090266102
    Abstract: A housing for a refrigeration device with an interior compartment that is surrounded by an insulation layer and an external skin that surrounds the insulation layer. Said external skin comprises at least one wall which has at least two zones with different thermal conductivities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
  • Publication number: 20090159584
    Abstract: A cooking appliance which is mounted in an elevated manner, which comprises at least one muffle which defines a cooking chamber and which comprises a muffle opening which is on the base thereof, a base door which can be displaced and which is used to close the muffle opening, comprising at least one heating field on the upper side thereof and at least one operational state for the open state, wherein the heating field is at least partially connected. The cooking appliance which is mounted in an elevated manner comprises a displacing locking device, which prevents the open base door from being displaced when in the activated operational mode for the open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Bally, Kerstin Feldmann, Wolfgang Fuchs, Martin Keller, Edmund Kuttalek, Maximilian Neuhauser, Klemens Roch, Wolfgang Schnell, Günter Zschau
  • Publication number: 20080256986
    Abstract: A washing machine contains a friction damper device for a washing unit comprising a tub, a washing drum which is rotationally mounted in the tub and a drive for the washing drum. The washing unit is supported in an elastic manner by at least one damper counter to a lower frame part of the housing. In order to prevent the vibratory behavior of the oscillating unit from being influenced above the rotational speed of the resonance, the friction in the damper above the rotational speed of the resonance can be reduced. As a result, at least one friction covering which interacts directly on a piston rod of the damper is pretensed by an energy store counter to the piston rod and can be displaced away from the piston rod by activating an actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Ackermann, Andreas Bohm, Rolf Schuck
  • Publication number: 20070241100
    Abstract: A fluid heating device is provided that is to be mounted in a continuous flow heater and includes at least one heating element embodied as an electric resistance heater, and at least one heat exchanging element that is connected in a heat-conducting manner to the heating element and the fluid so as to transfer the heat generated by the heating element to the fluid. The heat exchanging element forms an integral housing component of a pressure-resistant and temperature-resistant continuous flow heater and is provided with an essentially planar central area on which the heating element is mounted. In order to produce a continuous flow heater, the heating device is joined in a positive, pressure-resistant, and thermally stable manner to a molded part encompassing at least one inlet and at least one outlet so as to form a fluid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte, GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Stickel
  • Patent number: 7149416
    Abstract: A heater for a washer-dryer includes a duct in which heating elements for heating the air flowing through the duct are disposed. A device for increasing the airflow in the area of a heating element is provided in the duct to improve the transportation of heat away from the heating element. The airflow device can be one or more projections on a wall of the duct extending into the duct and can be disposed upstream of the heating element with respect to a flow direction of the air, adjacent the heating element, and/or downstream of the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Nawrot, Bert Peters, Andreas Ziemann
  • Patent number: 6485122
    Abstract: A heat-insulating wall, such as a refrigerator door or housing, includes a substantially vacuum-tight outer paneling, an inner paneling, a substantially vacuum-tight connecting diaphragm formed from material having low heat conduction, a diaphragm cover formed from material having low heat conduction, and a protective profile with an opposite magnetic pole or a magnetic seal. The diaphragm is respectively vacuum-tightly connected to the inner paneling and to the outer paneling at free borders thereof. The outer paneling, the diaphragm, and the inner paneling define an evacuable cavity that is filled with an evacuable supporting material. The diaphragm cover covers at least a part of the diaphragm. The protective profile is secured one or both of the inner paneling and the outer paneling and substantially covers the diaphragm cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wolf, Wolfgang Kentner, Jürgen Hirath, Stefan Holzer, Adolf Feinauer, Richard Horn
  • Patent number: 5829085
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for repeated, automatic metering of precisely metered quantities of a powdered detergent into water-carrying cleaning machines, in particular household dishwashers and household washing machines, include a detergent holder and a metering and dispensing device having a movable metering device with at least one metering receptacle. The interior of the detergent holder and a guide of the metering and dispensing device are acted upon continuously by a stream of compressed air. Therefore, clumping of the highly hygroscopic powdered detergent and an expensive, complex apparatus, which requires a high drive torque and a high air pressure, are avoided. The metering device has only one metering receptacle. The metering and dispensing device has two chambers communicating with one another. The detergent fed into the first chamber is fed gradually, during the motion of the metering device, into the second chamber, which has an opening toward the treatment vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Jerg, Daniele Cerruti
  • Patent number: 5763857
    Abstract: A heating home appliance, in particular a household appliance such as an oven, includes an appliance space having at least one heating body. At least one multi-ply layer of air-tight foils at least partly surrounds the appliance space, enclosing air chambers, being at least peripherally joined together and otherwise being kept mutually spaced apart from one another. The at least one foil layer has foil edges, with an air-tight-sealed edge on all sides being formed of the foil edges and forming a flexible fastening and/or connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Klement, Klaus Rabenstein, Klemens Roch
  • Patent number: 5735261
    Abstract: An oven door of a kitchen stove includes an inner door bottom, an outer door unit having additional door elements and a front panel being formed of glass or glass-like material and forming a door front. Connecting elements act as carriers for the additional door elements. The connecting elements are secured directly or indirectly to the front panel and are connected to the door bottom through contact points of low capacity for heat exchange, for joining the front panel to the door bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Kieslinger
  • Patent number: 5723847
    Abstract: A method and an electronic control unit for determining and optionally displaying the remaining time in a treatment program in a household appliance include superposing an initializing test program segment on the treatment programs in order to determine an "installed heating capacity" parameter that determines a gradient. To that end, a defined quantity of the medium is heated with an electrical heater for a predetermined period of time. The "installed heating capacity" parameter and/or a comparison value corresponding to its magnitude is calculated from the attained temperature increase, the defined quantity of the medium and the known period of time and is stored as an operand in a nonvolatile memory for later remaining-time determinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Boldt
  • Patent number: 5701952
    Abstract: A water-conducting household appliance includes a container which receives a heated liquid and has a wall. A partition of thermally conductive material is disposed in the container adjacent the wall and is substantially water-tightly joined with the wall. A supply container is formed between the partition and the wall and is thermally conductively connected to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Ernst Stickel
  • Patent number: 5694794
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for repeated, automatic metering of precisely metered quantities of a powdered detergent into water-carrying cleaning machines, in particular household dishwashers and household washing machines, include a detergent holder and a metering and dispensing device having a movable metering device with at least one metering receptacle. The interior of the detergent holder and a guide of the metering and dispensing device are acted upon continuously by a stream of compressed air. Therefore, clumping of the highly hygroscopic powdered detergent and an expensive, complex apparatus, which requires a high drive torque and a high air pressure, are avoided. The metering device has only one metering receptacle. The metering and dispensing device has two chambers communicating with one another. The detergent fed into the first chamber is fed gradually, during the motion of the metering device, into the second chamber, which has an opening toward the treatment vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Jerg, Daniele Cerruti
  • Patent number: 5694795
    Abstract: A drive mechanism for a household washer-dryer includes an at least approximately horizontally rotatably supported tub having a tub jacket and a tub axis. A gear pinion has a drive belt being wrapped around the tub jacket for driving the tub in opposite directions. A large pulley is connected to the gear pinion, is fixed against rotation relative to the gear pinion and is supported on a common axis with the gear pinion. An electric drive motor has a motor pinion with an axis. A gear belt is driven by the motor pinion for driving the large pulley. The common axis is movably guided axially parallel and is spring-loaded in a direction toward an increase in spacings between the common axis and the axis of the motor pinion as well as between the common axis and the tub axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Bosch Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Dieter Knopp
  • Patent number: 5685695
    Abstract: A fan wheel for high-temperature operation, especially in ovens, includes a star-like or ray-like base plate having a central middle region, protrusions protruding substantially radially beyond the central middle region and having an outer contour, axially drawn up blades disposed on the protrusions and a base plate surface with axially drawn up segments extending from the middle region into the vicinity of the protrusions. According to one embodiment, the segments include a central, annular segment and star-like or ray-like segments adjoining the central, annular segment and extending through the protrusions of the base plate substantially symmetrically with the outer contour. According to another embodiment, the segments include a central, annular segment and star-like or ray-like segments adjoining the central, annular segment, originating from the central, annular segment and following the outer contour of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Klement, Peter Kellermann
  • Patent number: 5682684
    Abstract: Household washer-dryers include a laundry drum having an incoming air inlet and a waste air outlet, a blower in an air conduit, a heating device upstream of the air inlet, temperature and moisture sensors, a memory for measured values and process sequence variants and an electronic program control unit. A method for controlling drying processes in such devices includes measuring a waste air temperature at the air outlet at a starting point of a drying process. At least part of the heating device is periodically turned on and off during at least one time segment at a beginning of the drying process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Wentzlaff, Harald Moschutz, Ulrich Nehring
  • Patent number: D385149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Feil
  • Patent number: D389696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Feil