Patents Assigned to BSH Bosch und Siemens
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Patent number: 9055858Abstract: A method for operating a water-conducting domestic appliance is provided. During at least one of a plurality of successive partial program steps, a first medium is heated at least at times by means of a first heating element and items undergoing treatment are heated by applying the heated first medium to the items. When the first heating element is inactive, a second medium is heated at least at times by means of a second heating element and the items undergoing the treatment are heated by the heated second medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2009Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Helmut Jerg, Michael Georg Rosenbauer
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Patent number: 9049977Abstract: A dishwasher, in particular a household dishwasher, includes at least one wash compartment and a rack guide rail for support in the wash compartment of a rack which holds items to be washed and/or dried. The rack guide rail has a running surface to allow movement of the rack in and out of the wash compartment for loading and unloading purposes along a travel path supported on the running surface. The rack guide rail is hereby supported at a support point for pivoting about a pivot axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Johann Jobst, Thomas Wachinger
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Patent number: 9046298Abstract: A domestic appliance for installation in a furniture frame. The appliance includes an essentially rectangular body and a vertical cover section fixed to a front vertical edge of the body and extending laterally beyond the vertical edge onto the furniture frame. A leg of the section adjacent to a lateral wall of the body has a hole for a fixing screw and a head of the fixing screw is accommodated at least partially in a depression surrounding the hole. A floor of a depression surrounding the hole is level, and a shaft of the fixing screw maintains clearance as it passes through the hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2009Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Karl-Friedrich Laible, Hans-Philipp Reitz, Helmut Steichele
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Publication number: 20150144748Abstract: The invention relates to an accommodating device for a removable filter in a domestic appliance, having an accommodating opening for accommodating the filter at least in part, and having a seal which, with the filter inserted, seals the accommodating opening in relation to the filter. In order for fluff, hair and other deposits and contaminants both adhering to the filter and deposited in the vicinity of the accommodating opening to be reliably kept away from the accommodating opening when the filter is being removed, the seal is arranged at the accommodating opening and has at least one sealing element which, when the filter is being removed, passes out of a sealing operating position into a screening position, in which it encloses at least part of the accommodating opening with screening action.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATEgMBhInventors: Alexander John, Martin Korte
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Publication number: 20150143837Abstract: A cooling appliance (100) is provided, including a heat insulation cabinet (10), in which a storage chamber is formed; and a door (11), which cooperates with the heat insulation cabinet (10) to selectively open or close the storage chamber. The cooling appliance (100) further includes an dispenser system (20) capable of allocating ice and liquid, where the dispenser system (20) is used for allocating ice in an ice storage container of the cooling appliance (100) into an dispenser cavity (21). The dispenser system (20) includes an ice channel (40) and a splash-proof component (30), where the splash-proof component (30) includes a buffering part, so as to be used for absorbing at least one part of kinetic energy of ice when the ice passes through, to reduce spreading and splashing of the ice.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Lisheng Zhang, Benhe Dou, Jing Hong
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Patent number: 9038425Abstract: A washing machine includes a laundry drum which is rotatably mounted inside a tub. The tub is connected in a fixed manner within a surrounding housing. The axis of rotation of the laundry drum is variable in height with respect to the tub. Elastic elements are positioned outside the tub to suspend the laundry drum together with a drive unit within the housing in an oscillating manner. The presence of a relatively high water consumption of the washing machine can be avoided and the relative position of the laundry drum with respect to the tub can be adjusted by providing a position-adjusting device, by which the height and/or the angle of the axis of rotation can be adjusted within limits, and which engages with a part that is connected in a fixed manner to the bearing for the drive shaft of the laundry drum.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE GMBHInventors: Hans Eglmeier, Andreas Hanau
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Patent number: 9032978Abstract: A dishwasher includes a washing compartment, at least one dishware container, and a guide assembly to allow the dishware container to be moved out of the washing compartment and into the washing compartment. The movement of the dishware container in relation to the washing compartment is cushioned by at least one damping device which is arranged inside the washing compartment.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Franz Kiechle, Karlheinz Rehm
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Patent number: 9032980Abstract: A dishwasher includes a dishwashing compartment and a rack provided in the dishwashing compartment for holding items to be cleaned. A rotatable spray arm is associated with the rack for applying water or wash liquor liquid upon the items. Water or wash liquor liquid is supplied to the spray arm via an upright supply tube having at least one region which flares in a direction of the spray arm and a peripheral terminal end facing the spray arm. The terminal end of the supply tube is configured to project into the cavity and thereby is extended into the spray arm.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Johannes Büsing, Christian Jakob, Hans-Peter Nannt
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Patent number: 9035178Abstract: A domestic appliance with at least one display window with an externally visible, at least partially transparent viewing area for program data or similar information is produced with in a multi-component process and constructed so that the display window has at least one frame fixedly connected with the viewing area for affixing the display window to parts of a housing of the domestic appliance.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Norbert Gerstner, Tobias Merk, Florian Racs
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Patent number: 9032675Abstract: A device for covering a gap between a housing of a household appliance and a surface which is adjacent thereto. Said device comprises two profile elements, a first for securing to the surface and the second for securing to the housing. One of the profile elements comprises a groove and the other comprises a spring. The spring can be introduced into the direction of the width of the gap in the groove.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2006Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBHInventors: Karl-Friedrich Laible, Hans-Philipp Reitz
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Patent number: 9034115Abstract: A dishwasher having a washing compartment; an air-guiding channel to generate an airflow; and a sorption drying system to dry items to be washed. The sorption drying system has a sorption compartment with reversibly dehydratable sorption material and the sorption compartment is connected to the washing compartment by the air-guiding channel. The reversibly dehydratable sorption material in the sorption compartment is layered in form of a sorption unit that has an inlet cross-sectional area such that the substantially identical respective air volume flow value that is applied to each entry point of the inlet cross-sectional area.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Helmut Jerg, Kai Paintner
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Injection moulding method for optional manufacturing of moulded parts with or without a breakthrough
Patent number: 9034226Abstract: An injection-molding method for selectively manufacturing molded parts with and without a breakthrough is disclosed. A molded part with a breakthrough is manufactured by positioning a mold core in a mold cavity, whereas a molded part without breakthrough is manufactured by removing the mold core at least partly from the mold cavity. The mold cavity delimited by a nozzle-side mold platen and an ejector-side mold platen. The mold core is movable relative to at least one of the mold platens, in particularly the nozzle-side mold platen, in an advance direction, where the mold core is closer to the nozzle-side mold platen and an opposite withdrawal direction. At least one protective measure is provided for protecting the inner surface facing the mold cavity of the respective mold platen, in particularly the nozzle-side mold platen, from adverse mechanical effects during movement of the mold core in the advance direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Joachim Betz, Norbert Gerstner -
Patent number: 9028615Abstract: A domestic appliance includes at least one component having a surface that can become laden with organic dirt. The surface includes a photocatalyst and is made from a primary-formed first material in which the photocatalyst is dispersed. A photoradiation source is provided for irradiating the photocatalyst with an activating electromagnetic radiation.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Hans Eglmeier, Andreas Hanau, Hartmut Schaub, Ingo Schulze
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Patent number: 9022228Abstract: A domestic appliance filter for use in a laundry treatment device includes a basic filter material with a hydrophobic coating for filtering out matter from a process water duct or a process air duct. The basic filter material includes a material which is resistant to temperatures of 160° C. or more and the hydrophobic coating on the basic filter material effects a surface energy of less than 35 mN/m.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventor: Klaus Grunert
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Patent number: 9016085Abstract: The invention relates to a refrigerating appliance having an evaporator area and at least two cooling areas partitioned off from one another inside the housing of the refrigerating appliance. A wall has a solid inner skin, a solid outer skin and a layer made of expanded insulating material located between the inner and outer skin. A cold air supply channel in the wall extends from the evaporator area past the first cooling area to the second cooling area. A shaped part made of an insulating material extends between the cold air supply channel and the inner skin of the wall. The cold air supply channel is separated from the expanded insulating material by a partition.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Ralf Spiller
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Patent number: 9016885Abstract: A refrigerator includes a thermally insulating internal container having an interior space, a refrigeration apparatus for cooling the interior space, and a door leaf arranged pivotably relative to the internal container for opening and closing the interior space. Arranged within the interior space is an internal lighting system for at least partially illuminating the interior space. The lighting system includes a conductor board having an electrical contact, a housing having a shaft which is open in a direction toward the interior space so as to allow the conductor board to be pushed into the shaft, and a lighting member arranged within the housing and fastened on the conductor board. An electrical line supplies electrical energy to the lighting member and is provided with an edge board plug which is electrically connected to the electrical contact of the conductor board for connecting the lighting member electrically to the electrical line.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Stephan Kempfle, Michael Roth, Matthias Wiedenmann
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Patent number: 9010624Abstract: A method for supporting an operator of a household appliance, in particular a domestic appliance, by making contact with customer service for the household appliance with the aid of a portable communication device is disclosed. A machine-readable code affixed to the household appliance, in particular the domestic appliance, is detected by an optical detection device of the portable communication device. On the basis of the detected code, a communication link is established between the portable communication device and communication equipment of customer service, specifically automatically via the portable communication device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Melanie Kerscher, Thomas Schraufstetter
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Patent number: 9010884Abstract: A backing piece for attaching an electrical component to a housing wall of an electrical household appliance and arrangement behind a matching opening in the housing wall includes a body having an essentially rectangular base surface, and a peripheral web configured as an elastic sealing lip for support against a rear face of the housing wall. Holding elements project from the body and form with the sealing lip a gap which receives a section of the housing wall at an edge of the opening. The holding elements are arranged in spaced-apart relationship about a periphery of the body such that at least one of the holding element is arranged on each of four sides of the rectangular base surface and one of the holding elements is provided at each of the corners of the body so as to apply a pressing force sufficient upon each section of the sealing lip.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Alexander Heinrich, Matthias Wiedenmann
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Patent number: 9010890Abstract: A cabinet-like domestic appliance is provided having an interior in which a height-adjustable support system is mounted. The support system includes a vertical rail provided with a plurality of snap-in recesses and a supporting arm that has a plurality of projections each of which engages with one of the snap-in recesses. The rail includes a profiled element that is immobilized on a wall via an at least one fastener and a strip is provided that can be vertically displaced in the profiled element between a position in which the at least one fastener is accessible through an opening on one side of the profiled element that faces away from the wall and another position in which the at least one fastener is concealed behind the strip.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2007Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignees: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Miele & Cie. KGInventor: Peter Eckartsberg
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Patent number: 9004081Abstract: A household appliance, in particular a household dishwasher, includes an external display, a transmission interface connected for signal transmission to the external display, and a power supply network for supply of electrical energy. The household appliance is isolated from the power supply network after completion of a treatment cycle, and the transmission interface is configured to transmit a signal to activate the external display to display at least the completion of the treatment cycle before the household appliance is isolated from the power supply network.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Reinhard Hering, Michael Georg Rosenbauer