Patents Assigned to BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
  • Household laundry dryer condensate filtering apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8863401
    Abstract: A household laundry dryer has at least one filter container which includes a chamber with an inlet for condensate water to be cleaned. The chamber has a first outlet, a second outlet and a filter element which is arranged between the inlet and the first outlet and which divides the chamber into an inlet-side first chamber part and a second chamber part. The filter container can be configured in such a way that the inlet is arranged below the filter element and the filter element is arranged below the first outlet, and the second outlet opens into the first chamber part. Particles deposited on the filter element by water being pushed through the inlet into the chamber are detachable from the filter element by water flowing back into the chamber, when no water is being pushed through the inlet, and removable through the second outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Frank Kohlrusch, Andreas Ziemann
  • Method for washing laundry in a program-controlled domestic appliance, and corresponding domestic appliance
    Patent number: 8863559
    Abstract: A method for washing laundry in a program-controlled domestic laundry-care appliance including the steps of heating washing liquid present in the tub and heating the washing liquid to a specific washing temperature set as a function of determined parameter values that are specific to the laundry being washed and/or the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Gundula Czyzewski, Ingo Schulze, Stephan Sommer, Cornelia Witt
  • ARRANGEMENT HAVING A WASHING-MACHINE TUB AND A DRIVE MOTOR, AND WASHING MACHINE
    Publication number: 20140305171
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement having a washing-machine tub and a drive motor, which can be connected to the tub by a suspension device, wherein the suspension device is designed as a two-point attachment means, wherein a housing of the drive motor has arranged on it two rockers designed for connection in each case to a rocker mount arranged on the tub. The invention also relates to a washing machine having such an arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Böttger, Wolfram Schubert, Jörg Skrippek
  • Water-conducting household appliance, in particular dishwasher or washing machine
    Patent number: 8858728
    Abstract: A water-conducting household appliance has a washing container and is configured to carry out at least one wash program. A special cleaning program for cleaning the washing container is carried out when there is a start signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Heisele, Helmut Jerg, Roland Rieger, Michael Georg Rosenbauer
  • Dishwasher and base tray for said dishwasher
    Patent number: 8857450
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a washing compartment having a boundary wall with a base, spray devices inside the washing compartment, and a hydraulic circuit with a distributor which subdivides a washing liquor flow into two partial flows which are each routed to the spray devices, wherein the distributor is integrated in the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Haltmayer, Mathias Herrmann, Stefan Kasbauer, Claus Köther
  • Dishwasher with a visual display facility
    Patent number: 8858726
    Abstract: A dishwasher is provided that has a door and a wash compartment that is closed off by the door. The wash compartment receives items to be treated and has a movable dish rack in which items to be cleaned are supported. The movable dish rack is moved from a treatment position in which the wash compartment is closed to an access position in which loading and unloading of dishes into the dishwasher is facilitated. The dishwasher further includes a visual display facility for visual notification of operation information and/or program information of the dishwasher. The visual display facility is assigned to the dish rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Höpfl, Ersin Isbilen, Karlheinz Rehm, Michael Georg Rosenbauer
  • Washing items support for a dishwasher
    Patent number: 8858725
    Abstract: A washing items support assembly for a dishwasher supports items of cutlery for washing that have been laid in a first cutlery container arranged in a first container region and supports other washing items in a second container region in which at least one washing items holder is arranged in which, optionally, pieces of cutlery or other crockery pieces may be laid as washing items, whereby the washing items holder has a support surface for the washing items which is or may be inclined relative to the horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Mailänder
  • Method for the operation of a water-conducting household appliance
    Patent number: 8858719
    Abstract: A method for operating a water-conducting household appliance having a storage container which is connected by means of an overflow outlet in a liquid-conducting manner to a washing compartment and having a pump which is connected in the liquid-conducting manner to the washing compartment. The method includes starting the pump; filling the storage container with a liquid; monitoring a first operating parameter associated with the pump after the pump has been started; and terminating the filling of the storage container with the liquid when the first operating parameter reaches a predefined threshold value and/or the first operating parameter exceeds a predefined fluctuation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Hesterberg, Karlheinz Rehm, Franz-Josef Wagner
  • Domestic appliance, especially a dishwasher or washer
    Patent number: 8860256
    Abstract: A domestic appliance having a control device to control device components of the domestic appliance during execution of a program, wherein the device components have electrical loads. The domestic appliance also has a switch to at least partly de-energize the control device after the program has finished executing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Georg Rosenbauer
  • Dishwasher machine comprising a sorption drying device
    Patent number: 8858727
    Abstract: A dishwasher having a washing compartment; an air ducting channel to generate an airflow; and a sorption drying system to dry wash items. The sorption drying system has a sorption compartment with reversibly dehydratable sorption material that is connected to the washing compartment via the air ducting channel. The air ducting channel is coupled to the sorption compartment such that the airflow enters the sorption compartment with an inflow direction and changes direction to a through-flow direction in which the airflow flows through the inside of the sorption compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Jerg, Kai Paintner
  • Domestic appliance comprising a measuring unit and method for transmitting a measurement variable
    Patent number: 8847728
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting a measurement variable that is detected by a measuring unit and transmitted via a data transmission channel to a main control unit of a domestic appliance that is isolated from the measuring unit is disclosed. The measurement control unit is coupled to the main control unit via a data transmission channel through which a measurement variable detectable by the measuring unit can be transmitted to the main control unit. The data transmission channel is a line having a protective impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Piotr Gorny, Lothar Knopp, Guido Sattler
  • Dishwasher with an improved arrangement of the feed device in the door
    Patent number: 8840732
    Abstract: A door for a dishwasher, in particular for a domestic dishwasher, the door serving for opening and closing the interior of the dishwasher, comprising an inner door which, when the door is closed, is oriented towards the interior and has a surround comprising a top and a bottom periphery, which run essentially horizontally when the door is closed, and two side peripheries, which run essentially vertically when the door is closed, wherein a feed device for dispensing additives is arranged on the inner door, essentially centrally between the side peripheries and in the top third, in particular in the top quarter, of the region between the top and bottom peripheries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Hartmann, Dieter Hotz, Cengiz Kücük, Michael Rosenbauer, Bernd Schessl, Erich Schmid, Martin Stickel
  • Refrigerating appliance and door for one such appliance
    Patent number: 8840204
    Abstract: A refrigerating appliance door having an inner wall and an outer wall interconnected along their longitudinal edges. A window is cut out of an edge of at least the outer wall in which at least one display element can be viewed when the door is shut. The display element is mounted on an operating screen which is fixed to a front upper edge of the refrigerating appliance body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Bauer, Christoph Becke, Alexander Goerz, Hans-Reinhart Janssen, Ralf Spiller
  • Domestic appliance device
    Patent number: 8835814
    Abstract: A domestic appliance device is provided which has an operating means carrier that carries operating means. The operating means carrier is formed by a panel and differs from a hob. The operating means carrier also has a functional support surface to absorb at least a part of the weight force of the operating means in a functionally-coupled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Apetauer, Andreas Hackbarth, Tobias Heilmann, Detlef Kiel, Thomas Möker, Gerd Wilsdorf
  • Dishwasher having a sorption drying device
    Patent number: 8834645
    Abstract: A dishwasher is provided that includes a washing container; a spray device accommodated in the washing container; an air-guiding channel to generate an air flow; and a sorption drying system to dry items to be washed. The sorption drying system has a sorption container with reversibly dehydratable sorption material, wherein the sorption container is connected to the washing container by the air-guiding channel and wherein the sorption container has an outflow opening. The dishwasher further includes an outflow device that is connected to the outflow opening of the sorption container and arranged in the interior of the washing container such that air blown out from the outflow device is substantially directed away from the spray device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Bartos, Daniel Delle, Ulrich Ferber, Bernd Hesterberg, Helmut Jerg, Kai Paintner
  • Apparatus and method for the operation of a dishwasher
    Patent number: 8834644
    Abstract: A dishwasher and a method for operating a dishwasher having a washing receptacle; at least two spraying devices located within the washing receptacle; a reversing device; a drive in functional connection with the reversing device in order to bring the reversing device into different positions; and a circulation pump which, depending on a set position of the reversing device, conveys liquid to at least one of the at least two spraying devices. The method includes controlling the drive such that the reversing device assumes a predefined starting position; and controlling the drive such that, based on the predefined starting position, the reversing device assumes a specific position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Heisele, Stephan Lutz, Michael Rosenbauer, Franz-Josef Wagner
  • Domestic appliance having automatic switch-off
    Patent number: 8836173
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for autonomously switching off a domestic appliance after completion of a previously selected program is disclosed. The domestic appliance has a control device that executes programs controlling the domestic appliance and an operating unit. The domestic appliance is connected to electrical energy from a power source through circuit arrangement comprising a terminal connection and first and second switches. The first electrical switch is separate from the second switch and can be switched from an open state to a closed state in which the switch is electrically conductive to connect the control device to the electrical energy. The control device is designed to switch the second switch from an open state to a closed state in which the control device is connected to electrical energy through the second switch as soon as the first switch is switched to the closed switching state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Koch
  • CABLE HOLDER
    Publication number: 20140246546
    Abstract: A cable holder for a cable includes a guide section for guiding the cable that can be pivoted in sections for a change in direction of a run of the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Aninger, Dieter Hotz, Cengiz Kücük, Christian Mesarosch, Pedro Sancho, Sebastian Wagner
  • Refrigerator with force-ventilation condenser
    Patent number: 8820101
    Abstract: A refrigerator with a condenser and a fan for the forced ventilation of the condenser, the refrigerator including a fan control circuit for controlling the fan to provide variable throughflow of air from the fan and an assembly for measuring temperature in operative communication with the fan control circuit for operating the fan in a temperature-dependent manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Hausmann, Hans Ihle
  • Door of washing and/or drying machine
    Patent number: D713610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Florian Metz, Roger Münstermann, Carsten Weber