Patents Assigned to BSH HAUSGERATE GMBH
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Broil burner venturi cover
    Patent number: 11311145
    Abstract: A cooking appliance having a broiler may include a housing defining an upper compartment above the broiler and a rear compartment behind the broiler. A gas mixing pipe extends through the upper compartment to the rear compartment via an opening in an interior wall of the housing. A cover is removably coupled to an outer surface of the interior wall, such that opposing U-shaped slots of the two cover portions collectively form an aperture that conforms to an outer periphery of the gas mixing pipe. Accordingly, the cover blocks one or more gaps in the interior wall, such that the cover is configured to prevent gases from passing into the rear compartment through the gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ben Braden, Daniel Davison, Timothy Russell
  • Domestic dishwasher having a spray device
    Patent number: 11311170
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a washing compartment and a spray device arranged inside the washing compartment and configured to spray washing liquor and/or clean water within the washing container. The spray device includes a cage and a rotary element which is mounted in the cage for rotation about an axis of rotation. The rotary element includes a bearing surface which is radially distanced from the axis of rotation and extending around the axis of rotation for enabling the rotary element to be mounted rotatably in the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Eisenbart, Michael Lugert, Werner Oblinger
  • Dishwasher and method for operating a dishwasher
    Patent number: 11311168
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a dishwashing container, a lower holder for items to be washed arranged in the dishwashing container, and an upper holder for items to be washed which is arranged in the dishwasher container above the lower holder. A control device executes a dishwashing program from a number of dishwashing programs for washing the items to be washed by actuating a hydraulic facility in such a manner that in a first segment of the dishwashing program a washing liquor having a first washing liquor temperature is only sprayed by a lower spray facility onto the lower holder and in a second segment of the dishwashing program following the first segment washing liquor having a second washing liquor temperature that is lower than the first washing liquor temperature is sprayed by an upper spray facility onto the lower holder and the upper holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Georg Rosenbauer
  • Cooker hood and filtering device thereof
    Patent number: 11313565
    Abstract: A filtering device of a cooker hood is configured in a V shape with an upward opening as a whole, and includes a V-shaped inner surface and a V-shaped outer surface. A tube portion is embedded between the inner surface and the outer surface, both ends of the tube portion being closed. The tube portion has a V shape with an upward opening. The tube portion includes an air inlet and an air outlet disposed in an interleaved manner, with the air inlet being located on the outer surface, and the air outlet being located on the inner surface. In this way, a rotating airflow is suitable to be formed in the tube portion of the filtering device, thereby improving a grease separation effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Zhaoyang Xia, Yongzhi Yang, Jing Liao, Jun Li
  • 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
  • Household dishwasher machine and method for operating a household dishwasher machine
    Patent number: 11311172
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity for accommodating items to be washed, a controller apparatus configured to perform one wash program from a number of wash programs for washing the items to be washed arranged in the dishwasher cavity, an optical sensor configured to capture an optical sensor signal of the items to be washed arranged in the dishwasher cavity, and an evaluating unit configured to ascertain a loading state of the dishwasher cavity as a function of the captured optical sensor signal of the items to be washed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Maria Terrádez Alemany, Kai Paintner, Matthias Heckes, Daniel Hitzler
  • Pad device
    Patent number: 11317478
    Abstract: A pad device includes a pad unit for placement at least in part between a setting-down counter and a heated cooking vessel in a heating operating mode. To provide great flexibility, the pad device includes an electronic unit which supplies at least one function in at least one operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sergio Llorente Gil, Jorge Mir Bel, Julio Rivera Peman
  • DOSING DEVICE, STORAGE CARTRIDGE, DOSING UNIT AND WATER-BEARING HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE WITH AN AUTOMATIC DOSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220104683
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dosing device (100) for dosing a detergent tablet (202) provided by a storage cartridge (200) to which the dosing device (100) is attachable, the dosing device (100) comprising a scoop (120) and a plug (130), wherein the scoop (120) is configured to pick up a detergent tablet (202) from the storage cartridge (200), lift the detergent tablet (202) to an opening (124) in the scoop (120) and transport the detergent tablet (202) to a receiving chamber (132) formed in the plug (130) when the scoop (120) is turned in a first turning direction about a rotational axis (X) that crosses a gravitational vector (G), and the plug (130) is configured to release the detergent tablet (202) from the receiving chamber (132). Also a water-bearing household appliance (1) comprising the dosing device (100) along with methods for dosing a detergent tablet (202) are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicants: RECKITT BENCKISER (BRANDS) LIMITED, BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Alberto BUOGO, Jakob SCHULTZ, Alexander SCHIELE, Hallam COLLINGS, Henry Matthew Lawrence FLETCHER, Iain Christopher SMITH, Jon WHADCOAT
  • Device, water-conducting household appliance and method for customizing a washing program
    Patent number: 11291346
    Abstract: A device for customizing a washing program for removing soiling from items being washed in a water-conducting household appliance includes a sensor configured to acquire spectral measurement values of organic compounds in washing water in the water-conducting household appliance. A determination unit determines functional groups of the organic compounds based on the acquired spectral measurement values of the organic compounds, and a customization unit customizes washing parameters of a current washing program based on the determined functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Caroline Heiligenmann, Matthias Arnold, Ersin Isbilen
  • Method for operating a dish washing machine and dish washing machine
    Patent number: 11284772
    Abstract: In a method for operating a dishwasher, in particular a domestic dishwasher, items to be washed arranged in an interior of the dishwasher are washed during a wash program. A quantity of a specific gas in the interior is determined during the wash program, and a hygiene program is started and/or a notification is outputted to a user of the dishwasher relating to a start of the hygiene program as a function of the determined quantity of the specific gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alfredo Calvimontes, Kai Paintner
  • Cooking appliance with top breathing burner having bottom breathing assist through top sheet
    Patent number: 11287138
    Abstract: A domestic home gas cooktop is provided. The cooktop has a top sheet having a primary combustion air hole through the top sheet; a gas burner cup mounted to the top sheet; and a gas burner base mounted to the burner cup. The primary combustion air hole is configured to allow first primary combustion air to flow from beneath the top sheet to the burner base, and the primary combustion air hole is located remotely from the burner cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Conor Cross, Michael Gerdes, Michael Petrino, Karthik Sitaraman
  • Home appliance having an anti-rotational housing for a gas supply orifice holder
    Patent number: 11287064
    Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a cooking compartment, a gas burner tube in the cooking compartment, a gas supply orifice holder coupled to a gas supply line at a first end and having a gas supply orifice at a second end. The gas supply orifice is configured to inject gas from the gas supply line into the gas burner tube. The home cooking appliance further includes an anti-rotational housing fixing a position of the gas supply orifice holder with respect to the gas burner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ben Braden, Josiah Fronckowiak, Jesus Garcia, Shaun Phillips
  • Cooking appliance having a load-bearing door
    Patent number: 11286698
    Abstract: Cooking appliances described herein may include an oven and a cooktop disposed above the oven. The oven may have an oven cavity and an oven door configured to open and close the oven cavity by pivoting about a horizontal axis. A linear actuator may be coupled to the oven door and configured to reposition the oven door in a vertical direction. Using this apparatus, a user may be assisted by the vertically-repositionable oven door when lifting and lowering objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Shaun Phillips