Patents Assigned to BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
  • Water-carrying domestic appliance having a water-distribution mechanism
    Patent number: 8915257
    Abstract: A water-carrying domestic appliance, especially a dishwasher or washer, which comprises a water diverter having at least one adjustable fluid distribution element, to which a fluid to be discharged through one or more fluid discharge lines can be supplied from a fluid supply line. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the fluid distribution element includes a plurality of passage openings respectively configured as funnel-shaped for sealing purposes such that a fluid pressure of the fluid flowing through a transition region between an outlet side of a respective passage opening and an inlet region into a respective fluid discharge line is lower than a pressure in a region surrounding the transition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Büsing, Anton Oblinger, Pedro Sancho, David Semerad, Martin Stickel
  • Extraction apparatus with grease collection channel
    Patent number: 8915982
    Abstract: An extraction apparatus includes at least one filter and a grease collection channel, wherein the grease collection channel has a number of removable troughs, which support the at least one filter. The troughs can be arranged flush with one another in a holder Each of the troughs has a handle, which has at least one air through-flow opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Haefele, Jochen Klemm, Ulmar Neumann
  • Range extractor hood
    Patent number: 8915983
    Abstract: A range extractor hood includes a screen, at least one filter element and at least one pivot bearing which swingably supports the at least one filter element on the screen. At least one locking member retains the at least one filter element to the screen. Located on the screen is a releasing device for, at least partially, releasing the locking member and retention of the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Anna Broβmann, Julia Ehrensberger, Andrzej Goczol, Michael Hegendörfer, Robert Hibelt, Thomas Kotlinski, Daniel Metz, Stefan Panten, Klaus-Heiner Rutsch, Ilka Schneider, Julia Wellhausen, Thomas Wilde
  • Tumble dryer comprising a heat pump and heating system and method for operating the same
    Patent number: 8910394
    Abstract: A tumble dryer having a drying chamber for articles to be dried; a process-air duct; a heater arranged to heat process air, wherein the heater is a two-stage heater having a first heating stage in a first circuit and a second heating stage in a second circuit that is parallel to the first circuit; a first fan to direct heated process air over the articles to be dried in the drying chamber; a heat pump having a heat sink, a heat source and a heat transfer device; a controller; and a thermostatic switch arranged in the first circuit or the second circuit, wherein the thermostatic switch is thermally coupled to the heat pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Steffens
  • Refrigeration device with a holder for a section of a refrigerant line
    Patent number: 8899070
    Abstract: A method for preventing condensation on a surface of a domestic refrigeration device and a corresponding domestic refrigeration device having a refrigerated chamber, a refrigerant line, and a refrigerant circulation system structured to transfer heat energy from the refrigerated chamber into the refrigerant circulation system via the refrigerant line. The refrigerant line may include a heat-emitting section in heat-conducting contact with a trim strip of the refrigeration device running below the refrigerated chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Eckartsberg, Michael Kordon
  • Domestic appliance comprising a telescopic pull-out
    Patent number: 8894166
    Abstract: A cupboard-type domestic appliance is provided having a housing delimiting an interior in which a support can be displaced between a retracted and a pull-out stop position by a telescopic pull-out mechanism. The telescopic pull-out mechanism includes a first runner fastened on the housing and at least one second runner that can be displaced in a direction contrary to that of the first runner. A projection of the second runner is coupled to a self-retracting mechanism mounted on the housing at a distance to the runners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Friedrich Laible
  • Method and device for starting an electric motor
    Patent number: 8896258
    Abstract: A method for starting an electric motor having a rotor, comprising the following steps:—driving the rotor with a first torque in a first rotational direction, wherein a maximum value of the first torque is not higher than a maximum countertorque acting counter to the rotation of the rotor, so that the rotor comes to a standstill in a first stationary position;—driving the rotor starting from the first stationary position in a second rotational direction that is counter to the first rotational direction until the rotor comes to a standstill in a predefined second stationary position; and—starting from the rotor in the first rotational direction starting from the second stationary position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Falko Abel, Eberhard Weidner
  • LAUNDRY DRYER HAVING A TEMPERATURE-ACTIVATED AIR-FLOW BLOCKING UNIT
    Publication number: 20140338213
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laundry dryer, in particular a domestic laundry dryer, which has a drum intended for laundry to be dried. The drum is provided with at least one air line for supplying air or discharging air. The laundry dryer is characterized in that the air line can be closed by means of a temperature-activated air-flow blocking unit, which contains an expansion material that expands at a temperature caused by a fire to such an extent that the air line is closed thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Stegerwald
  • Dishwashing machine having sound proofing element
    Patent number: 8888930
    Abstract: A dishwashing machine, in particular a household dishwashing machine, includes a box-shaped washing tank for receiving items to be washed, and a base carrier for support of the washing tank. The base carrier has a technology space for accommodating electrical components of the dishwashing machine. The technology space is arranged between a floor formed on the base carrier and the washing tank and is at least partially surrounded by a sound proofing element designed as a three-dimensional formed component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Jerg, Bernd Schwenk, Klaus Wietzel
  • Rinsing method for a water-bearing domestic appliance, especially dishwasher
    Patent number: 8888927
    Abstract: A rinsing method for a water-conducting domestic appliance is provided in which rinsing liquid is heated to a first temperature in a first operating mode in at least one partial program step of a first rinse cycle; a scale formation in the water-conducting domestic appliance is recorded by a scale sensor arranged in a hydraulic system; the scale formation is compared with a nominal value for the scale formation; and, upon exceeding the nominal value, a second rinse cycle is executed in a second operating mode, while the rinsing liquid is heated to a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Jerg, Michael Georg Rosenbauer
  • Device for warming food by means of inductive coupling and device for transferring energy
    Patent number: 8890041
    Abstract: A device wherein food can be warmed by means of induction, said device comprising at least one secondary coil which is formed from a current conductor, whereon at least one heating element is connected. The invention also relates to a device which is used to transfer energy in a device in order to warm food by means of induction, said device comprising a primary coil which is connected to a voltage source and which is formed from a current conductor. According to the invention, the primary and secondary coil is cast into a coil body by casting means, and the insulating casting means exhibits a coefficient of thermal expansion which essentially corresponds to the coil body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Dan Neumayer, Wolfgang Schnell, Eckhard Wolfgang, Günter Zschau
  • Steam function at the end of a brewing process
    Patent number: 8889207
    Abstract: A method for preparing hot beverages in a hot beverage machine by possibly repeatedly pumping a specific quantity of water from a water tank into a heating device, heating the quantity of water, pumping the heated quantity of water out of the heating device into a brewing chamber and possibly at the same time pumping a further quantity of water out of the water tank into the heating device, brewing a brewing substance contained in the brewing chamber to produce a hot beverage, and finally converting the quantity of water last pumped into the heating device completely into steam in a controlled manner for forcing liquid out of the entire line system downstream of the heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Aigner, Josef Daburger, Josef Gius, Johann Magg, Stefan Stadler
  • Household appliance
    Patent number: 8889988
    Abstract: An appliance having a cable harness including a ground cable, the ground cable electroconductively connected to an electrically conductive component of the appliance. The cable harness is at least partially accommodated in a cable duct of the appliance. In an exemplary embodiment, a first contact element held on the cable duct and including an integrated first contact element is electroconductively connected to the ground cable of the cable harness, which comes into electrical contact with the electrically conductive component of the household appliance using an assembly movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Hotz, Cengiz Kücük, Pedro Sancho, Manfred Seeβle, Wilhelm Thibaut
  • Dishwasher comprising a sorption drying unit
    Patent number: 8888928
    Abstract: A dishwasher is provided, which has a base module; a washing container having a base; an air-guiding channel to generate an air flow; and a sorption drying system for drying items to be washed. The sorption drying system includes a sorption container having reversibly dehydratable sorption material. The sorption container is connected to the washing container by the air-guiding channel. Further, the sorption container is arranged beneath the base of the washing container in a substantially freely-suspended manner such that, for heat protection, the sorption container has a predefined minimum gap distance in relation to neighboring components and/or neighboring parts of the base module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Delle, Ulrich Ferber, Helmut Jerg, Kai Paintner
  • Laundry drum for a laundry treatment machine
    Patent number: 8887540
    Abstract: A laundry drum on the one hand is to exhibit the advantageous features of structures of the prior art distributed in the circumferential direction, which protrude from the cylinder shape of the drum casing accommodated in the laundry drum, but at the same time however create the basics for their embodiment for advantageous influencing of the laundry movement within the laundry drum during its rotational movement. To this end structures are inventively formed from ring-shaped protrusions distributed in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Geyer
  • Household appliance and control module for such a household appliance
    Patent number: 8884472
    Abstract: A household appliance includes an electronic control facility controlling at least one appliance component of the household appliance, and a connection adapted for connecting the household appliance to a network connection line to supply the household appliance with electrical energy. The connection has at least one interface contact, wherein electricity tariff information is routed from an energy supplier to the control facility, when the interface contact is contacted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Georg Rosenbauer
  • Structure of a gas-valve unit
    Patent number: 8881769
    Abstract: A gas valve unit for adjusting a volumetric gas flow which is fed to a gas burner of a gas device includes a valve chamber, an actuation shaft protruding out of the valve chamber, and at least two on/off valves arranged in the valve chamber. Further arranged in the valve chamber is at least one restrictor plate having at least two restrictor points, each of the restrictor points having at least one restrictor opening. The restrictor plate is accessible from a side of the valve chamber on which the actuation shaft is protruding from the valve chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Jörn Naumann
  • Water-conducting household appliance
    Patent number: 8882931
    Abstract: A water-conducting household machine, specifically a dishwasher, includes a compartment having a closable compartment opening, and at least one washing device for generating at least one water jet in the compartment. At least one baffle plate is disposed on an inner side of the compartment in at least one area of impact of the water jet and in such a way as to be vibration-free for noise reduction, particularly for noise damping and/or sound insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Fritz, Martin Gula, Jan Ondrejcak, Michael Georg Rosenbauer, Bernd Schwenk, Daniel Zvada
  • Cooktop
    Patent number: D715587
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Sebastian Knöll
  • Downdraft
    Patent number: D717595
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Sebastian Knöll