Patents Assigned to BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
  • Hob apparatus
    Patent number: 11371716
    Abstract: A hob apparatus includes a heating region for placement and heating of a cooking container. A dynamic display unit provides an identification of the heating region in an operating mode, and a control unit selects an identifying property of the identification of the heating region in the operating mode, depending on an operating parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Victor Camañes Vera, Jesús Ceamanos Gaya, Clara Fuertes Pinol, Patricia Gomez Bachiller
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-BEARING HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE AND WATER-BEARING HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20220192460
    Abstract: A method for operating a water-bearing household appliance for treating articles, in particular a dishwasher or washing machine, the water-bearing household appliance including a treatment chamber for treating the articles with a washing liquor and a dosing system for dispensing a dosing-amount of detergent provided by a dosing unit, the method comprising: selecting one of a plurality of different treatment cycles, controlling the water-bearing household appliance to perform the selected treatment cycle, actuating the dosing system to dispense the dosing-amount of detergent according to the selected treatment cycle, detecting a sensor signal of the dispensed dosing-amount of detergent, adjusting the selected treatment cycle as a function of the detected sensor signal, and controlling the water-bearing household appliance to perform the adjusted treatment cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: Reckitt Benckiser (Brands) Limited, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Jakob SCHULTZ, Alexander SCHIELE, Daniel KÖHLER, Henry Matthew Lawrence FLETCHER, Matthew BURROWS, Siddharth GUPTA
  • Control of a household appliance
    Patent number: 11363937
    Abstract: A method for the process programming of a household appliance includes the following steps: receiving a sequential program by the household appliance; checking the sequential program with respect to a predetermined device condition by the household appliance; and releasing the sequence of the sequential program in the household appliance as a function of the result of the check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Hitzler, Juergen Klein
  • Removable door bin height extender for refrigerator
    Patent number: 11365930
    Abstract: A removable door bin height extender for a refrigerator door bin of a refrigerator, including: a frame having a front retaining portion that extends to a right side retaining portion and a left side retaining portion; and a pair of spaced apart, plate-shaped gripping fingers that extend downward from a bottom portion of each of the right side retaining portion and left side retaining portion. The pair of spaced apart, plate-shaped gripping fingers on the right side retaining portion and on left side retaining portion of the frame are configured to slide over and grip a right side wall and a left side wall, respectively, of the refrigerator door bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Jason Clark, Xuewen Hu, Graham Sadtler
  • Electrical household appliance and method for operating the electrical household appliance
    Patent number: 11368572
    Abstract: An electrical household appliance includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a communication device through a communication connection. A remote control facility is configured to make it possible to operate the electrical household appliance by way of a communication device. A door is configured to open a region of the electrical household appliance in an open state or to close the region in a closed state. A monitoring facility is configured to detect the state of the door. A controller is configured to automatically activate the remote control facility if the door is in the closed state and the electrical household appliance is activated locally. A method for operating an electrical household appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Marcelo Cabaleiro Martins, Burkhard Gorzitza, Jens Kittan, Juergen Muehl
  • Dishwasher having at least one water feed
    Patent number: 11363936
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity configured to receive an item to be washed. A water feed extends completely or partially in the dishwasher cavity for providing a water distribution in the dishwasher cavity. Associated with the water feed is a lighting device having a lighting line extending along a guiding direction of the water feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Janina Fey, Michael Plank, Alf Hackenberg
  • Cooker hood, and method and system for controlling same
    Patent number: 11365890
    Abstract: A cooker hood, and a method and system for controlling same are provided. An image collection apparatus is disposed on the cooker hood. The control method includes: when a menu production start instruction is received, controlling the image collection apparatus to perform an image collection operation; storing a collected image; and after a menu production end instruction is received, invoking the collected image, to generate a corresponding menu. By means of the foregoing solutions, user operations in a menu production process can be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Dongyu Chu, Hongcai He, Peter Schlotmann, Lei Yang, Kuang Shen, Kai Xu
  • Refrigeration appliance apparatus and domestic refrigeration appliance
    Patent number: 11353257
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance apparatus has an appliance body and an appliance door delimiting a refrigeration chamber. A water-dispensing unit is disposed on a side wall of the appliance body or appliance door. The water-dispensing unit has a guide for dispensing water and at least one actuating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Senol Temizkan, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Florian Moertl
  • Multifunctional steam cooking appliance with active air inlet
    Patent number: 11339974
    Abstract: A cooking appliance that uses steam to heat a food item includes a cooking chamber; a steam generator that generates steam to heat the food item; a heating element that generates heat to heat the food item; an outlet that fluidly connects the cooking chamber to a first external environment outside of the cooking chamber; and an active inlet that fluidly connects the cooking chamber to a second external environment outside of the cooking chamber. The active inlet has a blocking member that prevents a fluid from the second external environment from entering the cooking chamber though the active inlet, and an actuator that moves the blocking member between a closed position in which the blocking member prevents the fluid from entering the cooking chamber through the active inlet, and an open position in which the blocking member allows the fluid to enter the cooking chamber through the active inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Temple Chadwick, Amanda Pegg, George Savitz, Anjanetta Sparrow, Benjamin Wagner, Adrienne Whitson
  • Exhaust gas mixing flue for gas appliance
    Patent number: 11339975
    Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance includes: a main housing; a cooking compartment; a gas burner that provides heat to the cooking compartment; a cooling air passageway located between the cooking compartment and a rear wall of the main housing, the cooling air passageway being separated from the cooking compartment by a rear wall of the cooking compartment; and a gas flue. The gas flue has an exhaust gas inlet open to the cooking chamber, the exhaust inlet being located in a lower panel of the gas flue, a cooling air inlet open to the cooling air passageway, an outlet located above the exhaust gas inlet, above the cooling air inlet, and above an uppermost portion of the cooking compartment, and an upper deflector located above the outlet and angled relative to vertical at a non-zero first angle such that the upper deflector extends over at least a portion of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ben Braden, Ian McIver, Richard Moyers, Charles Osborne, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
  • Calibrating an oxygen sensor of a domestic appliance
    Patent number: 11340202
    Abstract: A method for calibrating an oxygen sensor of a household appliance includes a calibration process which is automatically started when at least one status parameter of the household appliance has at least reached a predetermined threshold value. The household appliance can be a steam cooking appliance, and the oxygen sensor can be a lambda probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Lego, Hans-Jürgen Bauer
  • Door for sealing a cooking chamber, which has a condensate collection device, and cooking appliance
    Patent number: 11339972
    Abstract: A door for sealing a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance includes a rear wall and a condensate collection device for collecting a condensate draining from a rear side of the rear wall. The condensate collection device includes a collection and guide rail to collect condensate draining from the rear side and to divert the condensate in the direction of a collection container of the condensate collection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Dinkel, Frederic Dubois, Rainer Maier
  • Cooking utensil having contactless driven consumer with a driving unit of the consumer operating based on direct optical detection of the consumers movement
    Patent number: 11343882
    Abstract: A cooking utensil includes a drive unit which is configured to drive at least one consumer, and a receiving unit which is configured to receive energy in a contactless manner and to supply energy to the drive unit. The cooking utensil can be part of a cooking system which further includes a cooktop apparatus having an induction unit configured at least to supply energy for the receiving unit of the cooking utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Jose Andres Garcia Martinez, Sergio Llorente Gil, Teresa Del Carmen Marzo Alvarez, Jorge Mir Bel, Julio Rivera Peman, Francisco Javier Sancho Diaz, Beatriz Villanueva Valero
  • Connecting a domestic appliance to a remote control
    Patent number: 11343115
    Abstract: A domestic appliance, e.g. a refrigerator, has a switching element and a network interface for connecting the domestic appliance to a local network. The domestic appliance has precisely one switching element, in particular a pushbutton, and can be connected to a remote control via the local network by actuating the switching element. A method is used to operate a domestic appliance which has precisely one switching element and a network interface for connecting the domestic appliance to a local network. The domestic appliance is connected to a remote control via the local network by actuating the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Garschhammer, Hans Peter Werner, Jochen Grimminger, Christopher Rodney
  • Water-bearing domestic appliance
    Patent number: 11330956
    Abstract: A water-conducting household appliance includes a moving component, an electric motor for moving the component, a load apparatus configured to apply a resistance to counter movement of the component as a function of a position of the moving component, and a control apparatus for actuating the electric motor. The control apparatus is configured to detect a drive current drawn which is drawn by the electric motor and is a function of the resistance applied by the load apparatus and to ascertain the position of the moving component as a function of the detected drive current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Eisenbart, Michael Lugert, Georg Hausmann, Andreas Heidel, Anton Oblinger
  • Household refrigeration apparatus with a plug pin or a locking element in a wall unit of a housing of an ice maker as well as method for assembling a housing of an ice maker
    Patent number: 11326823
    Abstract: A household refrigeration apparatus has an interior container with a first wall and with a second wall arranged angled thereto. The interior container bounds a first receiving space for food of the household refrigeration apparatus. An ice maker has a housing formed by a wall area of the first wall of the interior container and a wall area of the second wall of the interior container in certain areas. The housing bounds a receiving space of the ice maker. The housing has a wall unit, which is a unit separate from the interior container. The wall unit includes at least one positioning element, which is formed integrally with the wall unit and which is a protruding plug pin or a locking element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Prashantagouda Hosamani, Robert Stahl
  • Household appliance apparatus with a flow separating unit and household appliance
    Patent number: 11326831
    Abstract: A household appliance apparatus, in particular a household refrigeration appliance apparatus, has at least one flow separating unit which is provided for separating at least two airflows. In order to provide improved properties with regard to a ventilation of heat-generating freestanding household appliance components, the flow separating unit is provided for mounting on an outer wall of a freestanding household appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Herbert Weibl, Michael Krapp
  • Household refrigeration apparatus with an elongated ice chute
    Patent number: 11326824
    Abstract: A household refrigeration apparatus has a door with a rear side and an overhang. The overhang is arranged on the rear side and is formed with a top side wall. A water and ice dispenser is arranged in the door. The water and ice dispenser includes an elongated, or lengthened, ice chute. The ice chute is arranged in the overhang at least with an ice chute section. The ice chute is passed through the top side wall and the ice chute includes an entrance, which overhangs upwards beyond the top side wall in height direction of the household refrigeration apparatus and which is arranged above the top side wall at a distance to the top side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Moertl, Robert Stahl
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: 11319748
    Abstract: A refrigerator, in particular a domestic refrigerator, has a body and a closure element, which jointly delimit a storage chamber. A seal is provided, which is arranged between the body and the closure element and which is at least partly arranged in a seal receptacle. The seal receptacle has a passage section for bypassing the seal. Accordingly, the passage section has at least two passage channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Raab, Oliver Elser, Simon Hillmann, Markus Mayer, Juergen Diebold
  • Home cooking appliance having an air channel
    Patent number: 11313564
    Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a housing, a cooking compartment in the housing and accessible through a door in the housing, a cooling air system conveying air through the housing, and an air channel in fluid communication with the cooling air system, the air channel having an outlet exhausting a portion of the air from the cooling air system along a rear wall of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Temple Chadwick, David Dysinger, Tiffany E. Ingersoll