Patents Assigned to BSH HAUSGERATE GMBH
  • Sliding ring for knob on home appliance
    Patent number: 10782724
    Abstract: A control element for controlling a function of a domestic appliance has a control knob having a circular outer periphery, the control knob having a gripping portion configured to be gripped by a user of the domestic appliance, and a shaft receiving portion that is configured to receive a shaft of the domestic appliance; and a sliding ring positionally fixed to the control knob, the sliding ring having a circular outer periphery wall surrounding the outer periphery of the control knob, a base perpendicular to the outer periphery wall, and an opening in the base configured to receive the shaft of the domestic appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Metzmeier
  • Glass on outside of range door
    Patent number: 10782028
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for constructing an appliance door having a metal-to-metal-to-glass bond. In one or more implementations a glass panel is mounted to a door skin of a door panel, the door skin having multiple slots. Adhesive is applied to the side of the door skin opposite the glass panel along a path created by the multiple slots. Afterwards, a metal frame is placed on the adhesive creating a metal-to-metal-to-glass bond with increased structural strength and a reduced gap between the glass and metal of the door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Ladner, Rose Marie Parker
  • Ice bucket assembly for producing nugget ice for refrigerator appliance
    Patent number: 10782058
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes an ice compartment region disposed in at least one of a fresh food compartment or a freezer compartment; an ice maker disposed in the ice compartment region and configured to make ice pieces; and an ice bucket assembly configured to store the ice pieces made by the ice maker. The ice bucket assembly includes a mechanism for producing nugget ice from the ice pieces made by the ice maker and stored in the ice bucket assembly, the nugget ice being smaller in size as compared to the ice pieces made by the ice maker and stored in the ice bucket assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Nilton Bertolini, Cetin Abdullah Celik, Silas Patrick Mallon, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez
  • Connecting element, household appliance having such a connecting element, and insert module
    Patent number: 10756470
    Abstract: A connecting element for providing an electrical connection in a processing space of a household appliance, includes a protruding, longitudinally displaceable contact pin configured for displacement between a rest position protruding farther and an operating position protruding less far, wherein the contact pin pushes into the rest position. The connecting element is disposed on a side wall of the processing space, particularly a cooking space. An insert module can be inserted in the processing space of the household appliance and can be operated electrically. The insert module has a mating electrical connection element for contacting the connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Bally, Peter Blumenthal, Alexander Dinkel, Klemens Roch
  • Heating element arrangement for a cooking device, and a cooking device having a heating element arrangement of this type
    Patent number: 10753618
    Abstract: A heating element arrangement for a cooking appliance includes a first heating zone which is constructed to emit IR radiation in a first wavelength range, and a second heating zone which is constructed to emit IR radiation in a second wavelength range. The first wavelength range and the second wavelength range differ hereby from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Jördens, Jürgen Salomon, Philipp Schaller, Gerhard Schmidmayer
  • Household dishwasher for washing dishes in one or more partial wash cycles, and associated method
    Patent number: 10722100
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a wash container for holding dishes to be washed and a fill reservoir attached to the wash container. The fill reservoir is filled with fresh water from a fresh water network, and a quantity of fresh water required for the wash sub-cycle is removed from the fill reservoir and feed into the wash container. A heat pump includes an evaporator which is thermally coupled to the fill reservoir to extract heat energy from stored fresh water, and a condenser via which heat energy is fed into an interior space of the wash container. Disposed between the interior space of the wash container and an interior space of the fill reservoir is a single-layer or multilayer insulation material system to reduce a heat flow from the wash container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Heinle, Hans-Peter Nannt, Kai Paintner
  • Lifting device, method for operating a lifting device, and dish washing machine
    Patent number: 10716451
    Abstract: A lifting device for a dishwashing machine includes an electrical drive mechanism constructed to move a dishware receptacle of the dishwashing machine between a start position and an end position. A detection unit detects a current draw of the electrical drive mechanism over a travel distance of the dishware receptacle in the dishwashing machine, and an identification unit identifies a status of the lifting device on the basis of the current draw of the electrical drive mechanism detected over the travel distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ersin Isbilen, Hans-Holger Pertermann, Martin Rittner, Thomas Steck, Christian Wolf
  • Dishwasher comprising a drying unit
    Patent number: 10709309
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a wash container for cleaning dishes, glasses, flatware or similar items to be washed during a program sequence which includes a drying phase or another process phase. The wash container has an inlet opening for inflow of a volume flow of air. The volume flow of air entering the wash container through the inlet opening varies a number of times over the drying phase or the other process phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Lutz, Johannes Büsing, Markus Wecker
  • Compact ice making system having two part ice tray portion
    Patent number: 10712069
    Abstract: A refrigerator including a fresh food compartment; a freezer compartment; an ice compartment disposed in the fresh food compartment; an ice maker assembly disposed in the ice compartment, the ice maker assembly including an ice maker tray/evaporator having an upper tray portion with at least one cavity for forming ice, a lower portion with at least one fin, and an evaporator cooling tube which is disposed between the upper tray portion and the lower portion, such that the evaporator cooling tube is sandwiched between the upper tray portion and the lower portion; and an ice bucket for storing ice, the ice bucket being disposed in the ice compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Nilton Bertolini, Alexander Görz, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez
  • Combined device with cooking surface and fume extractor
    Patent number: 10712019
    Abstract: A combined device includes a cooking surface having a recess. Arranged underneath the cooking surface is a fume extractor to extract air from a space above the cooking surface via the recess. The fume extractor forms with the cooking surface an assembly unit and includes a fan with an air inlet opening. The fan is arranged such that the air inlet opening of the fan faces the cooking surface. The air inlet opening of the fan, when viewed in a top view upon the cooking surface, is located at least partially underneath the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Julien Adam, Nicolas Chabut, Sebastien Flesch
  • Household appliance
    Patent number: 10712017
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a processing chamber having a front loading opening, a door, and hinges to join the door to a remaining structure of the household appliance and to enable the door to horizontally pivot for closing the loading opening. At least one of the hinges is floatingly joined to the remaining structure of the household appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Jérémy Buchmann, Jürgen Desor
  • Gas cooker and cooking HOB arrangement
    Patent number: 10697642
    Abstract: A gas cooking zone includes a gas burner having a burner base, a burner cover and a plurality of gas outlet ports, with the gas outlet ports being arranged on a closed curve, An infrared sensor device is arranged on the closed curve or offset in a radially outward direction from the closed curve and ascertains a temperature of a cooking receptacle associated with the gas cooking zone. The infrared sensor device is configured to at least partially penetrate the burner base and the burner cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Javier Corral Ricalde, Sergio Llorente Gil, Jose Salvador Ochoa Torres, Julio Rivera Peman, Cristina Rueda Sanudo
  • Automatic ice-sphere-making system for refrigerator appliance
    Patent number: 10697684
    Abstract: An automatic spherical ice maker includes an upper stationary ice mold having at least one ice cavity with a hemispherical shape, and a lower rotatable ice mold having at least one ice cavity with a hemispherical shape and corresponding to the ice cavity of the upper stationary ice mold, so that together the at least one ice cavity of the upper stationary ice mold and the at least one cavity of the lower rotatable ice mold form at least one spherical mold which is configured to produce at least one substantially spherical ice ball at a time. The upper stationary ice mold has a first heating element and the lower rotatable ice mold has a second heating element, thereby to facilitate release of the at least one spherical ice ball from the at least one spherical mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Nilton Bertolini, James Hoban, Silas Patrick Mallon, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez
  • Wire dishware and cutlery rack for dishwasher
    Patent number: 10694921
    Abstract: A dishwasher, including: a dishwashing compartment having a loading opening; a door configured to close the loading opening; a bottom washware rack configured for movement out of and into the dishwashing compartment; a middle washware rack configured for movement out of and into the dishwashing compartment; and a top washware rack configured for movement out of and into the dishwashing compartment. The top rack is formed of wire thereby to hold washware including cutlery and to enhance drying performance. The spacing between an inner surface of a top wall of the dishwashing compartment and an upper surface of a deepest portion of the top rack is in a range of 79.0 mm to 83.0 mm. The top rack is formed with a notch section along at least one side in a bottom portion thereof, and include an angled portion to hold bowls at a slight tilt with respect to horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Casey Carr, James Michael Edwards, Matthew Richards
  • Domestic refrigeration appliance comprising a compressor having compressor feet
    Patent number: 10697691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a domestic appliance, in particular a domestic refrigeration appliance, comprising a compressor having compressor feet, which is supported on a support rail by way of elastic damping bodies that are arranged in openings of the compressor feet, and which is held thereto by way of the damping bodies by bottom-penetrating retaining tabs having securing portions engaging the damping bodies from behind. In order to allow a simple and economical installation of the compressor, which nonetheless results in a permanently secure retention of the compressor, end portions of the retaining tabs extending beyond the damping bodies, according to the invention, have insertion means, which are designed in such a way that the compressor is mounted, or can be mounted, without a plastic deformation of the retaining tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kerner, Waldemar Reber, Werner Schmid, Udo Schuster
  • Operator control apparatus for a domestic appliance comprising a light guide for illuminating multiple zones of a front cap with different light intensities, domestic appliance comprising an operator control apparatus of this kind, and method for operating an operator control apparatus
    Patent number: 10692670
    Abstract: An operator control apparatus for a domestic appliance includes a carrier plate and an operator control element which is rotatably arranged on the carrier plate for setting an operating condition of the domestic appliance. The operator control element includes a front cap having a first transparent region and a second transparent region which is separate from the first transparent region. A light guide extends into the front cap to guide light from a light source such as to illuminate the first transparent region with a first light intensity of the light which is coupled out of the light guide, and to illuminate the second transparent region with a second light intensity of the light which is coupled out of the light guide, with the second light intensity of the light being different from the first light intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Fleissner
  • Induction HOB device
    Patent number: 10694589
    Abstract: An induction hob device includes at least one induction heating element adapted to heat a cooking utensil, and at least one detection circuit which cooperates with the at least one induction heating element to detect a presence of the cooking utensil. The at least one detection circuit is hereby directly connected to the at least one induction heating element irrespective of an operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas Blasco Rueda, Oscar Garcia-Izquierdo Gango, Ignacio Garde Aranda, Oscar Gracia Campos, Pablo Jesus Hernandez Blasco, Daniel Palacios Tomas
  • Dishwasher comprising a suction unit
    Patent number: 10687687
    Abstract: A domestic dishwasher includes a wash container which has a loading opening. The loading opening of the wash container can be closed by a door. A suction apparatus is provided to suction steam and/or air, in particular moisture-laden air, escaping from the loading opening. The suction apparatus has at least one inlet window located outside a wet chamber of the wash container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Doppelbauer, Markus Höpfl
  • Cooktop
    Patent number: D889186
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventor: Sebastian Knöll
  • Oven
    Patent number: D889187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Goss, Oliver Kraemer, Robert Sachon