Patents by Inventor Adolf Feinauer

Adolf Feinauer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11067333
    Abstract: A refrigeration device has an electrical device part which emits noise during operation. A controller operates the electrical device part in a normal operating power range. A noise sensor detects an intensity of the emitted noise from the electrical device part. The controller is configured to change an operating power of the electrical device part within the normal operating power range and to determine a minimum value of the noise intensity which is detected by the noise sensor and to determine a noise-reduced operating power in order to operate the electrical device part at the noise-reduced operating power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Drotleff, Daniel Micko, Adolf Feinauer, Matthias Mrzyglod, Niels Liengaard
  • Patent number: 10415866
    Abstract: In an ice maker with a tray having at least one water-receiving cavity, a wall of the cavity contains a phase change material. If an ice maker of this kind is pre-cooled, so that the phase change material is solid, a great deal of heat can be removed from water poured into the cavities in a short time by the heat causing the phase change material to melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Brabenec, Adolf Feinauer, Karl-Friedrich Laible
  • Publication number: 20190257575
    Abstract: A refrigeration device has an electrical device part which emits noise during operation. A controller operates the electrical device part in a normal operating power range. A noise sensor detects an intensity of the emitted noise from the electrical device part. The controller is configured to change an operating power of the electrical device part within the normal operating power range and to determine a minimum value of the noise intensity which is detected by the noise sensor and to determine a noise-reduced operating power in order to operate the electrical device part at the noise-reduced operating power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: HORST DROTLEFF, DANIEL MICKO, ADOLF FEINAUER, MATTHIAS MRZYGLOD, NIELS LIENGAARD
  • Publication number: 20180120018
    Abstract: A refrigeration device has a refrigeration device container, a door for closing an opening of the refrigeration device container, and a coolant circuit arrangement. The coolant circuit arrangement includes a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, and a heating section for heating the opening region of the refrigeration device container. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger include a multi-port extruded fluid line and are designed to discharge heat from the coolant circuit arrangement. The multiport extruded fluid line is thermally coupled to the heating section, and the heating section is arranged between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and is configured to dispense heat from the coolant circuit arrangement to the opening region of the refrigeration device container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: MATTHIAS MRZYGLOD, FRANK CIFRODELLI, STEFAN HOLZER, MING ZHANG, ADOLF FEINAUER, DANIEL RADZIWOLEK, BERTHOLD PFLOMM, NIELS LIENGAARD
  • Patent number: 9879903
    Abstract: A refrigeration device including a heat-insulated housing, which contains a storage compartment, a water tank, a fan for propelling a stream of cold air that passes through an evaporator and a distribution unit for the controlled distribution of the stream of cold air along at least two circulation paths, the first of which is in closer thermal contact with the water tank than the second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
  • Publication number: 20170122638
    Abstract: In an ice maker with a tray having at least one water-receiving cavity, a wall of the cavity contains a phase change material. If an ice maker of this kind is pre-cooled, so that the phase change material is solid, a great deal of heat can be removed from water poured into the cavities in a short time by the heat causing the phase change material to melt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: BERND BRABENEC, ADOLF FEINAUER, KARL-FRIEDRICH LAIBLE
  • Patent number: 9459035
    Abstract: A refrigeration device is provided that includes a housing enclosing an interior and an assembly in the interior having a storage compartment for chunks of ice and a stirrer. The stirrer is rotatable about an axis that extends through the storage compartment to move chunks of ice contained in the storage compartment in relation to each other and to move ice towards a dispensing passage that extends through the housing. A closable flap is interposed between the storage compartment and the dispensing passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Helen Lewis, Peter Nalbach, Martin Pünjer, Craig Duncan Webster, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
  • Patent number: 9243837
    Abstract: A dispensing device for free-flowing or pourable products, in particular in a refrigeration device. Said dispensing device has a feed pipe for a pourable product, comprising an exit opening and a shut-off flap that is situated at the exit opening, and an outlet for the free-flowing product, said outlet being attached to the flap and displaceable with the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Marek Myszko, Peter Nalbach, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
  • Patent number: 9151536
    Abstract: A dispensing device for a free-flowing or pourable refrigerated product is situated on the front face of the housing of a refrigeration device. A sleeve, through which the dispensing device is accessed, protrudes beyond the front face and is surrounded by a peripheral frame that protrudes beyond the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
  • Patent number: 9097458
    Abstract: A refrigeration device comprising a heat-insulated housing, which contains a storage compartment, a water tank, a fan for propelling a stream of cold air that passes through an evaporator and a distribution unit for the controlled distribution of the stream of cold air along at least two circulation paths, the first of which is in closer thermal contact with the water tank than the second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
  • Publication number: 20150203344
    Abstract: A refrigeration device including a heat-insulated housing, which contains a storage compartment, a water tank, a fan for propelling a stream of cold air that passes through an evaporator and a distribution unit for the controlled distribution of the stream of cold air along at least two circulation paths, the first of which is in closer thermal contact with the water tank than the second.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Martin BUCHSTAB, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim YAZAN
  • Patent number: 8353171
    Abstract: A refrigerating appliance is provided that includes an inner compartment for storing refrigerated or frozen goods, a cold generator, a refrigerating appliance control system for operating the cold generator, a mains connection for supplying the cold generator and the refrigerating appliance control system with an electrical voltage, and an ice-making machine arranged in the inner compartment. The ice-making machine includes its own control system for its own operation, which controls all functions of the ice-making machine independently of the refrigerating appliance control system. A connection is also provided from the ice-making machine and the ice-making machine control system to the mains connection of the refrigerating appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner
  • Patent number: 8245526
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided having three storage zones that are insulated from each other and cooled via evaporators through which a coolant flows. A first coolant circuit extends through a first and a second of the three storage zones and a second coolant circuit positioned parallel to the first coolant circuit extends through the first and the third of the storage zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Becker, Adolf Feinauer, Helmut Konopa, Peter Nalbach, Wolfgang Nuiding, Berthold Pflomm, Simon Schechinger
  • Patent number: 8240519
    Abstract: An ice dispenser including an ice supply container; a shaft extending into the supply container; a stirrer rotatable about the shaft which extends into the supply container, the stirrer being connectable to a rotation drive device that rotates the stirrer; an output chamber communicated with the supply container, the output chamber having an ice outlet opening; a slider rotatable in the output chamber, a rotation of the slider in a predetermined manner operating to bring the slider into moving engagement with ice located in the output chamber; and a coupling selectively disposable between an active coupling disposition in which the coupling operatively interconnects the stirrer and the slider to one another such that the slider rotates in correspondence with a rotation of the stirrer and a decoupling disposition in which the coupling does not operatively interconnect the stirrer and the slider to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Helen Lewis, Peter Nalbach, Craig Duncan Webster, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
  • Patent number: 8122734
    Abstract: A refrigerator is provided that includes a housing and a dispensing device for flowable and/or pourable chilled material, the dispensing device being located in a front recess of the housing. The front of the housing is covered at least in part by an adjustable decorative plate. The recess is accessible through a hole in the decorative plate while a case that is open towards the dispensing device and the hole of the decorative plate is adjustably mounted in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
  • Patent number: 8025083
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support carrier for supporting a container to receive cooled goods from a cooled goods dispensing machines delivering cooled liquids and water ice cubes. Cooled goods dispensing machines are often integrated into refrigerators in such a way that a refrigerator door is provided with a recess into which a drink container is set. For the recess to be useable with containers of different sizes, and at the same time to ensure a secure support for the containers, a support carrier is provided having at least one joint and which can be, for example, folded out of the recess to permit a relatively larger container to be supported relative to the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach
  • Publication number: 20110229341
    Abstract: An impeller for a fan having a hub that can be easily fastened to a shaft is disclosed. A multiplicity of vanes is fastened to the hub. At least one elastic damping body is provided in the hub between the receptacle and the vanes to damp the transfer of vibrations from the shaft to the vanes, and prevent vibration of the vanes relative to each other. A slotted central sleeve in the inner section of the hub forms the receptacle for the shaft and is surrounded by an annular spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Rastislav Andrejco, Adolf Feinauer, Michaela Malisi
  • Publication number: 20100326120
    Abstract: A refrigeration device having a water tank with at least one wall surface and a bottom surface and a flat heating system that is arranged on the water tank, wherein the flat heating system extends at least partially over the bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
  • Publication number: 20100218848
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support carrier for supporting a container to receive cooled goods from a cooled goods dispensing machines delivering cooled liquids and water ice cubes. Cooled goods dispensing machines are often integrated into refrigerators in such a way that a refrigerator door is provided with a recess into which a drink container is set. For the recess to be useable with containers of different sizes, and at the same time to ensure a secure support for the containers, a support carrier is provided having at least one joint and which can be, for example, folded out of the recess to permit a relatively larger container to be supported relative to the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach
  • Patent number: 7762292
    Abstract: A dispensing device for free-flowing or pourable products, said device comprising a dispenser opening for the products, which is situated in a recess on the front of the device and a support that can be removed from the recess and has at least one first tray surface for a container that is to be filled from the dispenser opening. The support comprises a base part that is detachably fixed in the recess and a tray part, on which the first tray surface is formed. Said tray part is connected to the base part in such a way that it can be displaced between a first position, in which the first tray surface lies opposite the dispenser opening at a first distance and a second position, in which the tray surface lies opposite the dispenser opening at a second distance that is greater than the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan