Patents by Inventor Alexander Gorz
Alexander Gorz 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).
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Patent number: 8789386Abstract: A refrigerating device is subdivided by a first partition into a storage zone and an air distribution zone. An air supply inlet and an air outlet open into the air distribution zone, and a plurality of holes are formed in the partition for letting air through from the air distribution zone into the storage zone and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Panagiotis Fotiadis, Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
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Patent number: 8752921Abstract: A refrigeration device, in particular a refrigerator and/or freezer. In an exemplary embodiment, the device includes a housing with a top, a base, lateral walls and at least one door that is attached by hinges. A reinforcement frame, to which the door is attached by the hinges, is provided on the housing. The invention is characterized in that with the aid of the reinforcement frame a particular mechanical stability is achieved for the housing, allowing even large and heavy do ors to be reliably attached and remain operationally safe.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Hans-Philipp Reitz
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Patent number: 8701374Abstract: A refrigerator door includes an outer wall and an inner wall which surround an intermediate space as well as vertical bars that protrude from the inner wall and are provided with catching steps for door shelves. The bars are formed at least in part by a vertical profiled part while the catching steps are embodied on the vertical profiled part.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Christoph Becke, Alexander Görz, Karl-Friedrich Laible
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Patent number: 8651599Abstract: A refrigerator includes a heat-insulated housing having an interior space in which a pair of chilled-goods containers are disposed adjacent to one another at a spacing from the floor. Each chilled-goods container is mounted on extending elements that guide chilled-goods container into and out of the interior space. A longitudinal beam extends between the chilled-goods containers and each of the extractable elements is supported on sidewalls of the housing via at least one crossbeam.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Thomas Benz, Alexander Görz, Karl-Friedrich Laible
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Patent number: 8398187Abstract: The invention relates to a refrigerator. A refrigerator includes a heat-insulated housing having an interior space in which a pair of chilled-goods containers are disposed adjacent to one another at a spacing from the floor. Each chilled-goods container is mounted on extending elements that guide chilled-goods container into and out of the interior space. A longitudinal beam extends between the chilled-goods containers and each of the extractable elements is supported on sidewalls of the housing via at least one crossbeam.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Thomas Benz, Alexander Görz, Karl-Friedrich Laible
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Patent number: 8240791Abstract: A container for forming an interior space within a refrigerating device that can be accessed via a door opening of the refrigerating device including a plurality of blanks forming a plurality of walls, a cooled goods support base, and a support rail such that the height of the cooled goods support is adjustably settable. A joint is formed between a blank forming the first side wall and a blank forming the rear wall, and the joint is at least partly concealed behind the support rail relative to a view into the refrigerating device through the door opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Thomas Benz, Alexander Görz, Hans-Philipp Reitz
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Patent number: 8220288Abstract: A refrigerator including a body unit and a pair of doors which are attached on opposite sides of the body unit and which jointly delimit a first internal space, wherein a first door of said pair supports a bar that extends into the internal space when the first door is in a closed position, said bar having a locating face, against which a rear side of the second door fits closely when both doors are in a closed position, and containing an electrical heating device, the refrigerator including a control circuit for the electrical heating device including at least one electric contact through which a current supply circuit of the electrical heating device is routed, the at least one electrical contact being attached to the body unit and conductively connected to a complementary contact disposed on the first door when the first door is closed.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Hans-Philipp Reitz, Helmut Steichele
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Patent number: 8083306Abstract: A housing for a refrigeration device with an interior compartment that is surrounded by an insulation layer and external skin that surrounds the insulation layer. The external skin may include at least one wall which has at least two zones with different thermal conductivities.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
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Patent number: 8079181Abstract: A door for a refrigerating unit is provided that includes a door leaf hinged to a body of the refrigerating unit and a decorative element that is superimposed on the door leaf in such a way as to be adjustable in position. The decorative element has a central cutout, through which a central region of the door leaf is exposed. A groove open towards this central region is formed on the door leaf in order to accommodate a profile element which conceals a gap between door leaf and decorative element.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Hans-Philipp Reitz
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Patent number: 8037706Abstract: A refrigeration device, in particular a no-frost device, refrigerator and/or freezer, comprising a thermally insulating housing containing at least one product storage compartment that can be supplied with cold air by a fan and an evaporator chamber that holds an evaporator. According to the invention, the evaporator chamber is thermally separated from the storage compartment by a partition. The device also comprises an electronic control system for controlling the refrigeration device and at least one light source for illuminating the storage compartment. The evaporator, the partition and the electronic control system and/or the evaporator, the partition and the light source are provided in the form of modules. The refrigeration device is characterized in that it is particularly reliable, works efficiently, can be cost-effectively produced and is easy to service.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Renate Pradel, Ralf Spiller
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Publication number: 20110239688Abstract: An ice cube container of an ice maker for household purposes includes a bottom, front and rear wall sections arranged on opposite ends of the bottom, and two sidewall sections interconnecting the end wall sections. The front and rear wall sections have each a length which is shorter than a length of the side wall sections. Arranged on one of the sidewall sections is a removal handle to allow easy removal of ice cubes. The ice cube container is removably received in a receptacle of a freezer compartment drawer of a refrigeration appliance in only one way in which the removal handle of the ice cube container faces the center of the freezer compartment drawer when the ice cube container is inserted in the receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Thomas Benz, Alexander Görz, James Jenkins, Matthew Ricket
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Patent number: 7980091Abstract: A refrigeration device comprising two refrigerated regions, whose temperature is independently regulated and which are supplied with cold air from a common evaporator chamber. A flap is situated in one branch of a cold air conduit, which connects the refrigerated regions to the evaporator chamber, said flap being pivotable between two positions, each of which seals a respective branch of the conduit. The pivoting displacement of the flap is driven by an eccentric cam.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Panagiotis Fotiadis, Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
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Publication number: 20110030410Abstract: A household appliance including a body; a door closing an interior compartment of the body and connected to the body by a hinge; an overlaid decorative plate that is distanced from the door by a gap; a covering element having a first limb that extends over a lateral wall of the body and a second limb that engages in the gap; and a first mounting part that is mounted in the gap on the overlaid decorative plate and that delimits a recess of at least one part of the second limb. The first mounting part has an abutment that defines a maximum depth up to which the second limb is introduced into the recess. A spacer is fixed on the first mounting part to enable mounting of the first mounting part at a distance from an edge of the overlaid decorative plate, wherein the distance is fixed by the spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Mehmet Ciyanoglu, Alexander Görz, Karl-Friedrich Laible
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Patent number: 7870756Abstract: A refrigerator includes an evaporator zone and a cooling zone separated from each other in a refrigerator housing. A fan drives a cold air flow from the evaporator zone into the cooling zone via a central inlet port that is arranged next to a heat-insulating partition located between the evaporator zone and the cooling zone. A distributing device that diverts a partial air flow into a distributor pipe that extends along a wall of the cooling zone is mounted upstream of the central inlet port in the direction of flow of the cold air. The distributor pipe is provided with holes that are distributed along the height of the wall and extend into the cooling zone.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2006Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle, Ralf Spiller
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Patent number: 7856845Abstract: The invention relates to a refrigerating device having a cooling compartment that can be closed by a door. The door has a heat insulated inner lining and a cooling air duct. The cooling air duct in the door conducts air cooled by an evaporator to the cooling compartment and the cooling air duct is recessed in the heat insulation of the door and is not covered by the heat insulation on the side facing the inner lining of the door.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Panagiotis Fotiadis, Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
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Patent number: 7845745Abstract: The invention relates to a domestic appliance that includes a first and a second housing that are juxtaposed and fastened to each other sidewall to sidewall. A hinge hinging one housing to the other housing is fastened to respective edges of the sidewalls of the housings facing each other. A blocking element is fastened to the housings at a distance to the respective edges of the sidewalls and blocks the freedom of motion of the hinge.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Alexander Görz, Philipp Reitz
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Publication number: 20100218544Abstract: The invention relates to a refrigerating device having a cooling compartment that can be closed by a door. The door has a heat insulated inner lining and a cooling air duct. The cooling air duct in the door conducts air cooled by an evaporator to the cooling compartment and the cooling air duct is recessed in the heat insulation of the door and is not covered by the heat insulation on the side facing the inner lining of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Panagiotis Fotiadis, Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle
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Publication number: 20100219732Abstract: A refrigeration device, in particular a refrigerator and/or freezer, comprising a housing with a top, a base, lateral walls and a rear wall as external walls, a door, an interior compartment situated in the housing and surrounded by internal walls and a front frame for thermally decoupling the internal walls from the external walls, the lateral walls being thermally insulated from the other walls by an additional insulation strip. The invention is characterised in that the entry of heat from the exterior into the interior compartment via the lateral walls can be significantly reduced by the thermal decoupling of said lateral walls, thus significantly increasing the efficiency of the refrigeration device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Inventors: Alexander Görz, Hans-Philipp Reitz
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Patent number: 7779646Abstract: The invention relates to a housing that encloses an inner chamber, a cold air pipe that extends in a wall of the housing separated from the inner chamber by an insulating layer, and a transition piece that connects one end of the cold air pipe to an air inlet of the inner chamber. The transition piece includes a guide wall that extends from one end of the insulating layer to an edge of the air inlet adjacent to the one end of the insulating layer, connecting a wall of the cold air pipe that is adjacent to the insulating layer to the adjacent edge of the air inlet in a continuous manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Alexander Görz
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Publication number: 20100031694Abstract: The invention relates to a container for forming within a refrigerating device an interior space that can be accessed via a door opening of the refrigerating device. The container includes a plurality of blanks forming a plurality of walls, a cooled goods support base, and a support rail such that the height of the cooled goods support is adjustably settable. A joint is formed between a blank forming the first side wall and a blank forming the rear wall, and the joint is at least partly concealed behind the support rail relative to a view into the refrigerating device through the door opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2006Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Thomas Benz, Alexander Görz, Hans-Philipp Reitz