Patents Assigned to Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KG
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Patent number: 12276153Abstract: A multi-joint hinge has a mounting element which can be fixed to an appliance body and a hinge part which can be fixed to a door and which is held pivotably on the mounting element via a joint mechanism with a plurality of joint levers. The hinge part is biased in the closing direction via a spring and at least one linear damper with a damper housing and a piston rod displaceable relative to the damper housing is provided which brakes a closing movement of the hinge part. The linear damper is arranged with the damper housing in a rotationally fixed manner via a holding element within a lever and the holding element is fixed to a lever of the joint mechanism. The piston rod can be pushed into the damper housing via an actuating element which is arranged on a further lever of the joint mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mark Schneider, Ralf Tofall
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Publication number: 20250116143Abstract: A piece of furniture includes a furniture body with an upper floor and a flap, and at least one flap fitting being arranged on the upper floor in order to hold the flap movably between a position closing a storage space of the furniture body and an opening position. The flap fitting includes a housing, on which a support arm is rotatably mounted, which includes a retaining element for fixing the flap, and an energy store, by means of which a force can be applied to the support arm, the support arm being articulatedly connected to a drive lever, which is articulatedly connected to a deflection lever. An opening limiter is provided between the drive lever and the deflection lever, by means of which the maximum opening position of the support arm can be adjusted. This allows the flap fitting to be flexibly adapted to the respective installation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Ralf TOFALL
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Publication number: 20250101789Abstract: A piece of furniture includes a furniture body with an upper floor, a flap, and least one flap fitting arranged on the upper floor in order to hold the flap movably between a position closing a storage space of the furniture body and an opening position. The flap fitting includes a housing, on which a support arm is rotatably mounted, which includes a retaining element for fixing the flap, and an energy store for applying a force to the support arm. A damper is provided for braking a movement of the support arm in the closing direction shortly before the closing position is reached. The damper can be moved via an actuating element mounted in the housing and the support arm can be braked via the actuating element when the flap is moved in the closing direction shortly before reaching the closing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Ralf TOFALL
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Publication number: 20250101787Abstract: A flap fitting includes a housing, on which a support arm is rotatably mounted, which includes a retaining element for fixing a flap, and an energy store, by means of which the support arm can be pre-tensioned in a rotational direction. The support arm is articulated to a drive lever which is articulated to a deflection lever, and the energy store is connected to an adjustable connection on the deflection lever via an articulation element. This allows the flap fitting to be flexibly adapted to the weight of a flap.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Ralf TOFALL
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Patent number: 12123641Abstract: An opening device, for a cooling device having a door assembly, includes a mounting base, which can be mounted on provided securing units for a door hinge of the cooling device, and a functional unit having an ejection element, which can be moved out in an electrically controlled manner. The mounting base has contacts and the functional unit has counter contacts. The contacts and the counter contacts contact one another when the functional unit is secured on the mounting base in order to supply the functional unit with current.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Cord Rommelmann
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Patent number: 12044050Abstract: A hinge or an item of furniture or a domestic appliance has a first hinge part and a second hinge part, which are interconnected via a lever mechanism having seven articulation pins and levers articulated thereon. The first hinge part has a first connecting piece and the second hinge part has a second connecting piece which are arranged parallel and spaced apart in a closed position of the hinge; and a cover element at least partially covers the lever mechanism on at least three sides in order to make it impossible to reach between the levers of the lever mechanism. A plurality of cover plates are formed integrally with the cover element, and the cover plates arranged on one side of the lever mechanism can be partially overlappingly pivoted relative to one another when the hinge is pivoted. The possibility of reaching into the lever mechanism is thereby prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Claudia Bollmeier
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Patent number: 12012792Abstract: A hinge for a furniture door includes a first hinge part is formed with a cassette-shaped housing for integration into a furniture panel, and a second hinge part is designed in the form of a hinge pot to be attached to the furniture door. The two hinge parts are pivotably connected to one another via a lever mechanism. The housing of the first hinge part is widened in a front region, in which an opening for the lever mechanism is situated, in relation to a rear region. In a closed position of the hinge, at least part of the lever mechanism occupies a space in the front widened region.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mark Schneider, Ralf Tofall, Thomas Beckmann
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Patent number: 11885165Abstract: A furniture board includes an integrated or inserted hinge for guiding a movable furniture part. The furniture board has two side faces, an end face, and an end-face recess for receiving a hinge. The hinge includes a basic element, a linear guide and a pivot guide hinged thereto. The linear guide has forcibly guided movable elements, to which the pivot guide is hinged at a distance from the basic element. Two side faces of the furniture board lie one in a first and one in a second plane. The linear guide and the hinged connection of the pivot guide to the linear guide lie between the first and the second plane, at least in a closed state of the hinge.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mark Schneider, Felix Sander
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Patent number: 11851927Abstract: A flap fitting for furniture has a lever mechanism with multiple levers for guiding a flap of the furniture. The lever mechanism is retracted at least partly into a housing of the lever fitting in a closed position. An auxiliary element is releasably secured to one of the levers of the lever mechanism. The auxiliary element has a locking section that blocks a movement of the lever relative to the housing in a locking position. After the lock of the auxiliary element is released, the auxiliary element is pivotally secured to one of the levers of the lever mechanism in order to extend the lever mechanism out of the opening by pulling the auxiliary element.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Martin Nordieker, Jens Poischbeg, Ralf Tofall
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Publication number: 20230383584Abstract: A multi-joint hinge has a mounting element which can be fixed to an appliance body and a hinge part which can be fixed to a door and which is held pivotably on the mounting element via a joint mechanism with a plurality of joint levers. The hinge part is biased in the closing direction via a spring and at least one linear damper with a damper housing and a piston rod displaceable relative to the damper housing is provided which brakes a closing movement of the hinge part. The linear damper is arranged with the damper housing in a rotationally fixed manner via a holding element within a lever and the holding element is fixed to a lever of the joint mechanism. The piston rod can be pushed into the damper housing via an actuating element which is arranged on a further lever of the joint mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mark SCHNEIDER, Ralf TOFALL
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Publication number: 20230366611Abstract: A refrigerator has an appliance body and at least one door pivotably mounted on the appliance body, the door being pivotably supported between a closed position and a maximum open position via at least one multi-pivot hinge and abutting the appliance body in the closed position via at least one seal, wherein the at least one multi-pivot hinge comprises a mounting element supported on the appliance body and a hinge part which is fixed to the door and which are held pivotably against one another via a joint mechanism with a plurality of joint levers, an adjusting device being provided on the mounting element, which has a fastening part fixed to the appliance body and an adjustment element by means of which the position of the mounting element relative to the fastening part can be adjusted in at least one spatial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mark SCHNEIDER, Ralf TOFALL
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Publication number: 20230366610Abstract: A refrigerator has an appliance body on which at least two doors arranged one above the other are pivotably mounted. The doors are mounted via a double hinge which is fixed to the appliance body with a mounting plate which is connected via a plurality of movable joint levers to an upper hinge part connected to the upper door and to a lower hinge part connected to the lower door via a plurality of further movable joint levers. The upper door is further pivotably mounted on the appliance body via a support hinge which is fixed to the appliance body by a mounting element that is connected to a plurality of joint levers connected to a further hinge part connected to the upper door. The joint levers of the support hinge have a greater vertical extent in the vertical direction than the joint levers of the double hinge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mark SCHNEIDER, Ralf TOFALL
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Publication number: 20230046661Abstract: A hinge or an item of furniture or a domestic appliance has a first hinge part and a second hinge part, which are interconnected via a lever mechanism having seven articulation pins and levers articulated thereon. The first hinge part has a first connecting piece and the second hinge part has a second connecting piece which are arranged parallel and spaced apart in a closed position of the hinge; and a cover element at least partially covers the lever mechanism on at least three sides in order to make it impossible to reach between the levers of the lever mechanism. A plurality of cover plates are formed integrally with the cover element, and the cover plates arranged on one side of the lever mechanism can be partially overlappingly pivoted relative to one another when the hinge is pivoted. The possibility of reaching into the lever mechanism is thereby prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Claudia BOLLMEIER
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Patent number: 11525295Abstract: A furniture board with an integrated or inserted flap fitting includes a lever mechanism having a plurality of levers guiding a flap of a furniture item. The flap fitting has a spring unit acting on at least one lever of the lever mechanism via an adjustable preload. The lever mechanism, in a closed position of the guided flap, moves into a front-side opening of the flap fitting and a front-side opening of the furniture board. The preload of the spring unit and/or the transmission ratio between the spring unit and the lever mechanism is adjustable via an adjusting element having a tool receptacle. The tool receptacle is accessible through a front-side opening in the furniture board and/or the flap fitting.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: HETTICH-ONI GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Martin Nordieker, Jens Poischbeg, Michael Tasche, Karsten Nolte
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Patent number: 11319737Abstract: A flap fitting for a piece of furniture includes a compound lever with a door bearing lever, a slope-increasing device, and a mounting plate to which a wing of the piece of furniture is secured. A lateral position and an incline of the mounting plate is adjustable relative to the door bearing lever by the slope-increasing device. The flap fitting includes a housing having two side plates arranged in parallel and at a distance from each other. The compound lever with the door bearing lever and the slope-increasing device being positioned between the side plates in a closing position of the flap fitting.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: HETTICH-ONI GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Martin Nordieker, Jens Poischbeg, Michael Tasche, Karsten Nolte
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Patent number: 11248406Abstract: A flap fitting for a piece of furniture includes a compound lever with a number of levers for guiding a wing of the piece of furniture, and a damping unit including at least one damper for damping the wing as it approaches a closed end position. The damping unit is arranged inside a housing of the wing fitting and includes an abutment against which one of the levers of the compound lever presses in order to damp the movement of the wing.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: HETTICH-ONI GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Martin Nordieker, Jens Poischbeg, Karsten Nolte
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Patent number: 11149483Abstract: A furniture hinge includes a body-side main element and a hinge cup, which is pivotally guided relative to the base element and which can be secured to a movable furniture part. The main element and the hinge cup are connected together via a lever mechanism. The furniture hinge is configured so that the lever mechanism has at least two levers, each of which is mounted on the hinge cup in a pivotal manner about a pivot axis that is aligned perpendicularly to the pivot axis of the hinge cup and each of which is provided with a toothing that meshes with another toothing arranged in the hinge cup.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Frye, Felix Sander
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Patent number: 11142933Abstract: A hinge, in particular a multi-joint hinge, has a mounting plate fixable on a body or a door and a side part, which is held on the mounting plate and on which a hinge part is pivotably mounted, wherein the side part is displaceable on the mounting plate in a longitudinal direction via a depth adjustment unit and the side part is pivotable in relation to the mounting plate by a vertical adjustment unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Hettich-ONI GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Felix Sander
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Patent number: 11098516Abstract: A damping assembly for a flap fitting includes first and second spring holders, between which at least two coil springs are arranged. In each of the at least two coils springs, a linear damper having a damper housing and having a piston rod slidable relative to the damper housing is arranged between the first and second spring holders.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: HETTICH-ONI GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Andre Kaiser
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Patent number: 11085223Abstract: An opening and closing system for an item of furniture, which has at least one movable furniture part and a movement fitting. The opening and closing system has an ejection apparatus having a loadable mechanical force store and a loading device for loading the mechanical force store. The loading device is supplied with energy from an electric energy store. The ejection apparatus is configured to move the movable furniture part into a partly opened position when the mechanical force store is unlocked. The movement fitting has a retraction apparatus and a damping apparatus, which move the movable furniture part from a further partly opened position lying within a predefined area of action, in a damped manner into a closed position, and the partly opened position of the movable furniture part achieved by the ejection apparatus lying within the predefined range of action of the retraction apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: HETTICH-ONI GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Markus Oestermann, Ulrich Ermler