Patents by Inventor Alberto Bassi

Alberto Bassi 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: 9078521
    Abstract: A height adjustable resting device including a first plate fixable in use against a wall of an electric household appliance; a the second plate having a resting guide slidingly carried along longitudinal edges vertical to the first; a slider sliding on a first face of the first plate, facing an opposite second face of the second plate, transversally to the longitudinal edges, integrally provided with a pin which overhangingly protrudes from the first face; a channel-shaped track on the second face, slidingly engaged by the pin and having two branches parallel to the longitudinal edges, having on an upper edge a plurality of recesses adapted to engage the pin resting thereon and for each recess, at least one pair of abutting surfaces obtained on a lower edge to guide the pin from a recess to the next as a consequence of a vertical movement of the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 8911042
    Abstract: An adjustable refrigerator shelf assembly receives electrical power through a loosely draped conductor held within a pocket on one side of the shelf assembly. The shelf assembly may include a detent mechanism allowing adjustment of the shelf assembly upward and downward by successive lifting and lowering of the shelf without direct manipulation of a detent or a lock allowing both the detent mechanism and conductor to be wholly covered at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Bassi, Marco Sclip
  • Publication number: 20130193828
    Abstract: A height adjustable resting device including a first plate fixable in use against a wall of an electric household appliance; a the second plate having a resting guide slidingly carried along longitudinal edges vertical to the first; a slider sliding on a first face of the first plate, facing an opposite second face of the second plate, transversally to the longitudinal edges, integrally provided with a pin which overhangingly protrudes from the first face; a channel-shaped track on the second face, slidingly engaged by the pin and having two branches parallel to the longitudinal edges, having on an upper edge a plurality of recesses adapted to engage the pin resting thereon and for each recess, at least one pair of abutting surfaces obtained on a lower edge to guide the pin from a recess to the next as a consequence of a vertical movement of the second plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: AT & S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Publication number: 20130088136
    Abstract: An adjustable refrigerator shelf assembly receives electrical power through a loosely draped conductor held within a pocket on one side of the shelf assembly. The shelf assembly may include a detent mechanism allowing adjustment of the shelf assembly upward and downward by successive lifting and lowering of the shelf without direct manipulation of a detent or a lock allowing both the detent mechanism and conductor to be wholly covered at all times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Alberto Bassi, Marco Sclip
  • Patent number: 8123313
    Abstract: A system for dampening an opening motion of a door includes a frame, an access door and at least one dampening member. The access door is rotatably secured to the frame. The access door is configured to be moved with respect to the frame between closed and completely open positions. The at least one dampening member is secured to the access door or the frame. The dampening member(s) dampens movement of the access door toward the completely open position over a range of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Karl S. Morgan, Robert Dam, Richard R. Herzog, Kurt A. Kuehn, Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 8104140
    Abstract: A decelerating device intended to intercept an end-of-stroke part of a closing path of a mobile member, such as a furniture drawer or door, including: a body fastenable in use to an abutting surface for the mobile member and internally defining a sealed chamber filled in use with a viscous fluid; a pushrod at least in part overhanging from the body and being adapted to cooperate in use with the mobile member, the pushrod being integral with a stem slidingly accommodated in the body against the bias of elastic means between an extracted position of the pushrod and a retracted position; and a piston accommodated in the sealed chamber so as to divide it into two portions hydraulically connected to each other and mechanically connected to the stem; wherein the stem presents a first end integrally connected to the pushrod and a second end opposite to the first, both slidingly accommodated in the body outside the sealed chamber and fluid-tightly towards the sealed chamber itself; the piston is provided with a mobil
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.R.L. Con Unico Socio
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 7740332
    Abstract: A device for fast displacement of the position in height of a shelf within a refrigerating cell of an electrical household appliance, such as a refrigerator or freezer, includes elements for the coupling with respective guides for supporting the refrigerating cell arranged in a plurality of positions fixed in height within the refrigerating cell itself and adjustment elements set between the coupling elements and respective opposite lateral sides of the shelf for selective displacement of the shelf between a first position and a second position, set at different heights, with respect to the coupling elements; in this way, the resting shelf can be coupled in use with a pair of guides set at a selected height in the refrigerating cell and can be displaced between two different heights with respect to that of the pair of guides simply by pushing the shelf itself upwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 7726753
    Abstract: A drawer container device that can be inserted in a refrigerated cell to define a separate compartment, including at least a shelf provided with mating elements with the respective side walls of the refrigerated cell in a first position such as to define, immediately below the shelf, a first predetermined volume and at least one cup-shaped drawer delimited by at least one side wall placed transversely to the shelf and located in a position beneath the shelf with its concavity facing the latter, the shelf being selectively moveable between the first position and a second position located at a different height from the first and in which the shelf delimits a second predetermined volume beneath itself; the side wall of the drawer being defined by a pair of adjacent elements sliding relative to each other and placed parallel to and at least partially facing each other; regulating elements of the pin-and-groove type being interposed between the relatively sliding elements to selectively position them such that the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.r.L.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Publication number: 20090300884
    Abstract: A system for dampening an opening motion of a door includes a frame, an access door and at least one dampening member. The access door is rotatably secured to the frame. The access door is configured to be moved with respect to the frame between closed and completely open positions. The at least one dampening member is secured to the access door or the frame. The dampening member(s) dampens movement of the access door toward the completely open position over a range of motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: KARL S. MORGAN, Robert Dam, Richard R. Herzog, Kurt A. Kuehn, Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 7562914
    Abstract: An opening device with a handle for a door of an electric household appliance, which door rotates about a hinge axis between an open position, and a closed position wherein the door rests, with the interposition of a peripheral seal, against a front edge of a door opening of the electric household appliance; the device includes: a support fixed to the door, close to the front edge of the door opening; the handle, which is fitted to the support to rock in opposition to elastic elements, so as to be positioned, in use, to the front of the door and at a predetermined distance from an outer surface of the door; and elements which, in use, exert thrust on the front edge of the door opening to detach the door from the door opening and rotate it into the open position, when the handle is rotated towards the outer surface of the door, so as to open the door by pushing on the handle; an optional spring completes rotation of the door about the hinge axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Publication number: 20090119873
    Abstract: A decelerating device intended to intercept an end-of-stroke part of a closing path of a mobile member, such as a furniture drawer or door, including: a body fastenable in use to an abutting surface for the mobile member and internally defining a sealed chamber filled in use with a viscous fluid; a pushrod at least in part overhanging from the body and being adapted to cooperate in use with the mobile member, the pushrod being integral with a stem slidingly accommodated in the body against the bias of elastic means between an extracted position of the pushrod and a retracted position; and a piston accommodated in the sealed chamber so as to divide it into two portions hydraulically connected to each other and mechanically connected to the stem; wherein the stem presents a first end integrally connected to the pushrod and a second end opposite to the first, both slidingly accommodated in the body outside the sealed chamber and fluid-tightly towards the sealed chamber itself; the piston is provided with a mobil
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: ITW INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Publication number: 20080105642
    Abstract: A removable closing device (1) for a liquid food product container (2), having a neck (3) fixable in fluidtight manner to the container, and a removable cap (4) for closing the neck in fluidtight manner; the cap and the neck have mating, inclined-surface coupling means, in particular, screw means; the cap is cup-shaped, and includes a sleeve portion (5) having a threaded portion (6) and an end collar (7) which faces the neck in use; the sleeve portion having, between the threaded portion and the collar: weakening means (21) permitting, in use, elastic radial deformation of the threaded portion, so that the cap, at least the first time it is inserted, can be clicked onto the neck; and a tampering indicator (10) having shear-off stop means (11) which, in use, upon attempted removal of the cap from the neck, cooperate with and are sheared by mating stop means (12) on the neck (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: ITW INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS S.R.L
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 7257862
    Abstract: A decelerating device includes a bushing and a pin carried coaxially by the bushing. A first end of the pin is housed inside the bushing and a second end of the pin, opposite to the first end, projects axially in cantilever fashion from the bushing. Inside the bushing, between the pin and one internal side wall of the bushing, there are housed, alongside one another, at a pre-set axial distance apart from one another, one or more deformable annular gasket elements. Each deformable annular gasket element has in radial cross section, in undeformed conditions, a peripheral profile defining at least one concavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 7175008
    Abstract: A decelerating device includes a casing defining internally a chamber filled with a viscous fluid, e.g. silicone oil; and a movable member fitted in fluidtight manner to the casing, so as to be housed at least partly inside the chamber and immersed in the viscous fluid. The movable member has a partition for dividing the chamber substantially in fluidtight manner into at least two adjacent portions varying in volume as a function of the position of the movable member with respect to the casing; and a calibrated constriction for maintaining permanent hydraulic connection of the at least two adjacent portions of the chamber, so that the viscous fluid flows between the chamber portions as a consequence of relative motion between the movable member and the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.R.L.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Publication number: 20060186774
    Abstract: A drawer container device that can be inserted in a refrigerated cell to define a separate compartment, including at least a shelf provided with mating elements with the respective side walls of the refrigerated cell in a first position such as to define, immediately below the shelf, a first predetermined volume and at least one cup-shaped drawer delimited by at least one side wall placed transversely to the shelf and located in a position beneath the shelf with its concavity facing the latter, the shelf being selectively moveable between the first position and a second position located at a different height from the first and in which the shelf delimits a second predetermined volume beneath itself; the side wall of the drawer being defined by a pair of adjacent elements sliding relative to each other and placed parallel to and at least partially facing each other; regulating elements of the pin-and-groove type being interposed between the relatively sliding elements to selectively position them such that the
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: ITW INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS S.r.l
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Publication number: 20060087131
    Abstract: An opening device with a handle for a door of an electric household appliance, which door rotates about a hinge axis between an open position, and a closed position wherein the door rests, with the interposition of a peripheral seal, against a front edge of a door opening of the electric household appliance; the device includes: a support fixed to the door, close to the front edge of the door opening; the handle, which is fitted to the support to rock in opposition to elastic elements, so as to be positioned, in use, to the front of the door and at a predetermined distance from an outer surface of the door; and elements which, in use, exert thrust on the front edge of the door opening to detach the door from the door opening and rotate it into the open position, when the handle is rotated towards the outer surface of the door, so as to open the door by pushing on the handle; an optional spring completes rotation of the door about the hinge axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Applicant: ITW INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS S.r.L.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Publication number: 20050179351
    Abstract: A device for fast displacement of the position in height of a shelf within a refrigerating cell of an electrical household appliance, such as a refrigerator or freezer, includes elements for the coupling with respective guides for supporting the refrigerating cell arranged in a plurality of positions fixed in height within the refrigerating cell itself and adjustment elements set between the coupling elements and respective opposite lateral sides of the shelf for selective displacement of the shelf between a first position and a second position, set at different heights, with respect to the coupling elements; in this way, the resting shelf can be coupled in use with a pair of guides set at a selected height in the refrigerating cell and can be displaced between two different heights with respect to that of the pair of guides simply by pushing the shelf itself upwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: ITW INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS S.r.I
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 6913296
    Abstract: A closing device for the door of an electronic household appliance has a latch fitted to the door to rotate, in opposition to an elastic element, about an axis of rotation, and to cooperate with a catch fixed to the electric household appliance. The latch activates a switch device disabling operation of the electric household appliance when the door is open. The latch has, in an eccentric position with respect to its axis of rotation, a first constraint member for the elastic element, and a second constraint member which is fitted integrally to the door. The elastic element is extensible along a work axis connecting the first and second constraint members and lies at all times in a plane perpendicular to the plane containing the axis of rotation of the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.r.l.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 6904764
    Abstract: A service device for a refrigerator having a refrigerating chamber, the device having an electric circuit portion and a mechanical portion. The electric circuit portion is connectable to the refrigerator outside the refrigerating chamber, and the mechanical portion is at least partly insertable inside the refrigerating chamber and cooperates with the electric circuit portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.r.l.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi
  • Patent number: 6877329
    Abstract: A service device for a refrigerator having a refrigerating chamber, the device having an electric circuit portion and a mechanical portion. The electric circuit portion is connectable to the refrigerator outside the refrigerating chamber, and the mechanical portion is at least partly insertable inside the refrigerating chamber and cooperates with the electric circuit portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.r.l.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi