Abstract: A mechanism for the door of a domestic electrical appliance, for example a dishwasher, is described. The mechanism includes a door latch for holding the door closed, a latch opener mechanism, an electrically controlled actuator for displacing the latch opener mechanism, a movably arranged pusher, and a spring device for providing a spring force which acts on the pusher. The latch opener mechanism functions such that, when the door is closed, it can be transferred from an inactive position into an active position while at least partially overcoming a holding-closed action of the door latch. The movably arranged pusher is separate from the latch opener mechanism and is decoupled therefrom in terms of movement. After the holding-closed action of the door latch has been overcome, the spring drive allows the door to be pushed open by the pusher.

Abstract: A domestic electrical appliance includes an appliance main body having an access opening to a usable chamber formed inside the appliance main body, and a door which is movably mounted on the appliance main body and which in an open position frees the access opening and in a closed position closes the access opening, a door latch for holding the door closed in the closed position, and a door opener, structurally separate from the door latch, for opening the closed door. The door opener includes a first coupling structure displaceably arranged on one of the appliance main body and the door, an electrically controllable drive unit for driving the first coupling structure, and a second coupling structure arranged on the other of the appliance main body and the door. The first and second coupling structure are configured for push- and pull-transmitting but releasable coupling engagement with one another.

Abstract: A domestic dishwashing machine includes a machine body having a dishwashing chamber formed therein, a door that is held on the machine body so as to be pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis, and a door latch. The door latch includes a latch assembly arranged on the machine body and which has a movably arranged closing member and a closing spring arrangement, and an engagement structure arranged on the door, wherein, on closing of the door, the closing member comes into closing engagement with the engagement structure, and a pulling-shut action can be exerted on the door by relaxation of the closing spring arrangement. The door has an internal door lining made of sheet-metal material which extends to a door top edge. The door lining has a first lining wall portion arranged adjacent to the door top edge and extending substantially parallel to the door plane.

Abstract: Adoor latch includes a gripper adjustable between a gripping state and a release state, which gripper, in the gripping state, is able to grip a closing member for holding the door closed which moves relatively closer to the gripper in a closing direction as a door of the domestic appliance is closed, and, in the release state, frees the closing member for opening the door, wherein, when the door is closed, the gripping state of the gripper is released by a relative releasing movement of the closing member carried out in the closing direction; and an electrically controllable displacement mechanism for displacing the gripper, under electrical control, from a retracted position into an advanced position against a restoring spring force, which advanced position, when the closing member is gripped, corresponds to a state in which the door is closed to a lesser degree than in the retracted position.

Abstract: A door latch for an electrical appliance includes a rotary gripper movably disposed between a gripping position and a release position with rotational displaceability and having a gripping mouth delimited between a pair of jaws. The rotary gripper is adapted to hold captive a striker in the gripping mouth for holding closed a door of the electrical appliance in the gripping position and to permit release of the striker for opening the door in the release position. The gripping position and the release position correspond to different rotational positions of the rotary gripper. A spring arrangement in the gripping position of the rotary gripper exerts on the rotary gripper a bias which counteracts a movement of the rotary gripper towards the release position. An opener mechanism for opening the closed door includes a movably arranged opening element separate from the striker and a drive unit for driving the opening element.

Abstract: A door lock for a domestic electrical appliance comprises a movably arranged locking member, which is selectively adjustable into an unlocking position and a locking position and in the unlocking position permits the opening of a closed door of the domestic appliance and in the locking position is in blocking engagement with a blockable component, at least when the door is closed. The blocking engagement causes the closed door to be blocked against opening. The door lock further comprises an electrically controllable actuator for actuating the locking member, and an electrical door detection switch that switches depending on the closing of the door. The doer lock also comprises an electrical auxiliary switch device, which selectively opens or closes an electrical shunt path to the door detection switch depending on the position of the locking member.

Abstract: A door lock for a domestic electrical appliance includes a locking member which is electrically switchable between an unlocking position and a locking position, which locking member in the unlocking position allows a closed door of the domestic appliance to be opened and in the locking position is in blocking engagement with a blockable component at least when the door is closed, and an auxiliary member, separate from the blockable component, which is movable in dependence on the closing of the door from a release position into a blocking position. The blocking engagement effects blocking of the closed door against opening. In the release position, the auxiliary member allows the locking member to be transferred from the unlocking position into the locking position; in contrast, in its blocking position, the auxiliary member blocks the locking member against being transferred from the unlocking position into the locking position.

Abstract: A door mechanism, for example for a domestic dishwasher, is disclosed, wherein the door mechanism includes a door latch for holding a door of the dishwasher closed in a closed position, and an electrically controllable door opener for the mechanized partial opening and subsequent closing of the door. The door opener includes coupling members, which can be brought into push- and pull-transmitting but releasable coupling engagement with one another, on the door and on an appliance main body of the dishwasher on which the door is movably mounted. The coupling members, when in coupling engagement, allow forces to be transmitted between the door and the appliance main body in a force transmission path which runs past the door latch. The pull strength of the coupling engagement of the coupling members can be variable in dependence on the position of the door.

Abstract: A cover assembly for mounting in a domestic dishwasher, for example, is proposed. The cover assembly includes a pivoting cover which is mounted on a support component and is to close an opening, wherein the pivoting cover has a cover part and a closure part which is movable relative to the cover part. The cover part has sealing faces which, on closing of the pivoting cover, come into sealing contact with sealing counter-faces encircling the opening. There are formed on the closure part engagement formations which, in a closed pivot position of the pivoting cover, can be brought into and out of holding-closed engagement with engagement counter-formations by relative movement between the closure part and the support component. The cover part is mounted on the closure part and is supported via the closure part on the support component.

Abstract: A door latch for an electrical domestic appliance includes a rotary member arranged to be rotationally movable between a closing rotational position and a release rotational position and is spring-biased in the direction towards the release rotational position, a movably arranged catch that is in an arresting engagement with the rotary member when the rotary member is in the closing rotational position, and a locking assembly that includes a movable locking member movable between an unlocking position and a locking position. The arresting engagement is releasable by an overlifting rotational movement of the rotary member. The rotary member is rotationally movable between a closing rotational position and a release rotational position and is spring-biased in the direction towards the release rotational position. The locking member, when transferred from the unlocking position into the opening position, causes the arresting engagement of the catch with the rotary member to be released.

Abstract: A mechanism for the door of a domestic electrical appliance, for example a dishwasher, is described. The mechanism includes a door latch for holding the door closed, a latch opener mechanism, an electrically controlled actuator for displacing the latch opener mechanism, a movably arranged pusher, and a spring device for providing a spring force which acts on the pusher. The latch opener mechanism functions such that, when the door is closed, it can be transferred from an inactive position into an active position while at least partially overcoming a holding-closed action of the door latch. The movably arranged pusher is separate from the latch opener mechanism and is decoupled therefrom in terms of movement. After the holding-closed action of the door latch has been overcome, the spring drive allows the door to be pushed open by the pusher.

Abstract: A domestic dishwashing machine includes a dishwashing container, a door, pivotably mounted on the dishwashing container, for closing a dishwashing chamber formed in the dishwashing container, and a dosing system, arranged at the door, for a solid detergent, for example, in tablet form. The dosing system may include an annular magazine having a rotatably arranged rotor which delimits a plurality of radially outwardly open storage compartments, distributed in the circumferential direction, which are each to receive a detergent tablet. In some embodiments, a chute is arranged beneath the rotor, and the chute allows a detergent tablet which has fallen into the chute to fall freely to an outlet opening at which the detergent tablet can pass into the dishwashing chamber. By rotation of the rotor, a storage compartment filled with a detergent tablet can move into a position radially opposite a dosing opening, at which the chute begins.

Abstract: A tablet dosing system, in particular for a domestic dishwasher, includes a magazine for stocking cleaning tablets in a plurality of stacks arranged side by side in a row, and an extractor for extracting cleaning tablets from the magazine. The extractor comprises an extractor member which is arranged to be movable relative to the magazine and which is adapted, without changing the position of the stacks, to serve each of the stacks for the purpose of extracting cleaning tablets. The extractor member is in the form of an extractor roller having a plurality of extraction pockets distributed along the roller axis for each receiving at least one cleaning tablet from the stacks or the extractor member is in the form of a linearly movable extractor slider which is able to serve two adjacent stacks alternately for the purpose of tablet extraction.

Abstract: A dosing system for installation in a domestic dishwasher is disclosed. The dosing system in some embodiments permits the automated delivery of a defined dose of a detergent in powder form into a dishwashing chamber of the dishwasher. It comprises for this purpose a supply chamber for receiving a supply of the detergent and an extracting mechanism for extracting a dose of the detergent from the supply and for delivering the extracted dose into a fall channel. In order to assist with expelling an extracted dose of the detergent powder from the fall channel or/and to accelerate drying of the fall channel, the dosing system in some embodiments includes a fan for generating a blowing air stream which flows through at least parts of the fall channel.

Abstract: A domestic appliance, for example a washing machine, comprises a body having an access opening to a process chamber arranged inside the body, a door which is movably attached to the body and which closes the access opening in a closed position, a door-closing mechanism for holding the door closed in its closed position and a door-opening mechanism arranged on the body or on the door, having a push slider, which is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position, and a drive unit for driving the push slider. A transfer of the push slider out of the retracted position into the deployed position effects opening of the closed door, the push slider acts in a pressure-exerting manner on the door or on the body and thereby overcomes a holding-closed action of the door-closing mechanism and opens the closed door.

Abstract: A door latch for an electrical domestic appliance includes a rotary member rotationally movable in a rotation plane between a closing rotational position and a release rotational position, a movably arranged catch for arresting engagement by an overlifting rotational movement of the rotary member with the rotary member in its closing rotational position, and a locking assembly having a locking member movable between an unlocking position and a locking position. The rotary member is spring-biased towards the release rotational position and which, in the closing rotational position, holds a closure member to keep a door closed and, in the release rotational position, releases the closure member in order for the door to open. The locking member forms a first blocking arrangement by means of which the locking member in its locking position blocks the rotary member against rotation out of the closing rotational position into the release rotational position.

Abstract: A domestic electrical appliance includes an appliance main body having an access opening to a usable chamber formed inside the appliance main body, and a door which is movably mounted on the appliance main body and which in an open position frees the access opening and in a closed position closes the access opening, a door latch for holding the door closed in the closed position, and a door opener, structurally separate from the door latch, for opening the closed door. The door opener includes a first coupling structure displaceably arranged on one of the appliance main body and the door, an electrically controllable drive unit for driving the first coupling structure, and a second coupling structure arranged on the other of the appliance main body and the door. The first and second coupling structure are configured for push- and pull-transmitting but releasable coupling engagement with one another.

Abstract: A latch module has an insertion mouth for receiving a closing member on closing of a door of a domestic appliance. Two collar portions which project away from one another are formed on both sides of the insertion mouth. Beneath a first of the collar portions there is formed a first recess, and beneath the second of the collar portions there is formed a second recess, which in some exemplary embodiments has two steps, where a first, less deep step is formed by a first lateral wall sub-portion and a second, deeper step is formed by a second lateral wall sub-portion.

Abstract: A device for selectively providing crushed or uncrushed ice comprises a storage receptacle (24) for storing uncrushed ice pieces, and a grinder, which is fed with ice pieces from the storage receptacle, for crushing the ice pieces, wherein the grinder is concealed behind an end wall (40) which is arranged on a side of the grinder that is opposite the storage receptacle, wherein there is associated with the grinder a mechanical switching element (48) which can be switched between two working positions and which in a first of its working positions ensures that ice pieces received from the storage receptacle are necessarily introduced into the operating range of the grinder and in its second working position frees a bypass passage for ice pieces received from the storage receptacle past the grinder.

Abstract: A door lock for a domestic electrical appliance includes a locking member which is electrically switchable between an unlocking position and a locking position, which locking member in the unlocking position allows a closed door of the domestic appliance to be opened and in the locking position is in blocking engagement with a blockable component at least when the door is closed, and an auxiliary member, separate from the blockable component, which is movable in dependence on the closing of the door from a release position into a blocking position. The blocking engagement effects blocking of the closed door against opening. In the release position, the auxiliary member allows the locking member to be transferred from the unlocking position into the locking position; in contrast, in its blocking position, the auxiliary member blocks the locking member against being transferred from the unlocking position into the locking position.