Patents by Inventor Alfred Raab

Alfred Raab 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).

  • Publication number: 20230400243
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a housing, at least one hinge mounted on a front of the housing, and a door mounted on the hinge and thus mounted pivotably relative to the housing. The hinge has a bearing bracket fastened to an end face of the front with at least one fastening element. The bearing bracket is constructed symmetrically, so that it can be installed either on a left end face of the front or on a right end face of the front, and in both installation situations the door mounted on the bearing bracket is situated in the same position relative to the housing in the height direction and the width direction of the household appliance when in the closed state. A method for producing a household appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Florian Gerstmayr, Johannes Köpf, Alfred Raab, Christian Schmid
  • Patent number: 11536071
    Abstract: A damping unit for damping a movable element of a home appliance has at least two dampers positioned in a housing. The dampers are positioned side-by-side to guarantee a defined series of damping an energy of the movable element. There is also described a home appliance having the novel damping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Ali Akca, Christian Baumann, Muharrem Uemit Caglin, Ercan Engin, Alfred Raab, Aydin Sahin
  • Patent number: 11519207
    Abstract: A refrigeration device has a first door with an opening and a second door for closing the opening in the first door. A first hinge member has a first connection portion fixed on a main body of the refrigeration device and a first hinged portion connected to the first door. A second hinge member has a second connection portion fixed on the first door and a second hinged portion connected to the second door. The second hinge member includes a columnar portion that is hinged to the first hinged portion. One of the columnar portion and the first hinged portion has a first shaft hole, and the other one has a first hinge shaft that extends into the first shaft hole. The novel device prevents a door body of the refrigeration device from being damaged at a hinged position and the reliability of the refrigeration device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: BSH HAUSGERAETE GMBH
    Inventors: Qinchao Liu, Ping Lv, Alfred Raab, Chuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11319748
    Abstract: A refrigerator, in particular a domestic refrigerator, has a body and a closure element, which jointly delimit a storage chamber. A seal is provided, which is arranged between the body and the closure element and which is at least partly arranged in a seal receptacle. The seal receptacle has a passage section for bypassing the seal. Accordingly, the passage section has at least two passage channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Raab, Oliver Elser, Simon Hillmann, Markus Mayer, Juergen Diebold
  • Patent number: 11073326
    Abstract: A door for a domestic refrigeration appliance has a door inner panel and a door outer panel. The inner and outer panels are arranged on a single-piece, multiple-sided door frame. The door frame is open in the peripheral direction of the frame shape, and a separate recessed handle element is arranged in an open peripheral section of the door frame. There is also described a domestic refrigeration appliance with a door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Raab, Friedrich Klein, Tobias Heisswolf
  • Publication number: 20210032929
    Abstract: A refrigerator, in particular a domestic refrigerator, has a body and a closure element, which jointly delimit a storage chamber. A seal is provided, which is arranged between the body and the closure element and which is at least partly arranged in a seal receptacle. The seal receptacle has a passage section for bypassing the seal. Accordingly, the passage section has at least two passage channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Alfred RAAB, Oliver ELSER, Simon HILLMANN, Markus MAYER, Jürgen DIEBOLD
  • Publication number: 20200308887
    Abstract: A household refrigeration apparatus has a housing with a door that is pivotally mounted to the housing by a hinge. The hinge has a pivot and a separate base part, at which the pivot is rotatably supported around a rotational axis. A height adjusting device is formed at the hinge for adjusting the door in the height position in height direction relative to the housing. The pivot includes an annular coupling disk of the height adjusting device, which is coupled to a coupling receptacle formed in the base part. An individual height position of the pivot is adjusted depending on the rotational position of the coupling disk around the rotational axis relative to the coupling receptacle. The coupling disk has a coupling element with ramp-like oblique flanks on both sides, by which the coupling element axially plunges into the coupling receptacle in the direction of the rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: ALFRED RAAB, JOHANNES KOEPF, SIMON KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20200115945
    Abstract: A damping unit for damping a movable element of a home appliance has at least two dampers positioned in a housing. The dampers are positioned side-by-side to guarantee a defined series of damping an energy of the movable element. There is also described a home appliance having the novel damping unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: ALI AKCA, CHRISTIAN BAUMANN, MUHARREM UEMIT CAGLIN, ERCAN ENGIN, ALFRED RAAB, AYDIN SAHIN
  • Patent number: 10584524
    Abstract: A domestic refrigerator has a housing and a door pivotably disposed on the housing by way of hinges. At least one hinge has a door closing fitting part on the door side with a closing clip. A bearing element having a closing cam which is coupled to the locking clip in the closed state of the door is formed on the housing. The closing cam has a coupling projection formed, on a coupling contour which faces it in the state in which it is coupled to the locking clip, with a recess in which a projection end piece formed on the locking clip engages in the coupled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Shizeng Fang, Klaus Flinner, Alexander Goerz, Alfred Raab
  • Publication number: 20200024880
    Abstract: A refrigeration device has a first door with an opening and a second door for closing the opening in the first door. A first hinge member has a first connection portion fixed on a main body of the refrigeration device and a first hinged portion connected to the first door. A second hinge member has a second connection portion fixed on the first door and a second hinged portion connected to the second door. The second hinge member includes a columnar portion that is hinged to the first hinged portion. One of the columnar portion and the first hinged portion has a first shaft hole, and the other one has a first hinge shaft that extends into the first shaft hole. The novel device prevents a door body of the refrigeration device from being damaged at a hinged position and the reliability of the refrigeration device is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: QINCHAO LIU, PING LV, ALFRED RAAB, CHUAN ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190358872
    Abstract: A method for producing a household appliance component for a household appliance includes producing the household appliance component from plastic by injection molding. The injection molding is carried out at least in some phases in a combined injection molding process involving thin-wall injection molding and cascade injection molding. At least a partial region, which is formed as a hollow body, of the household appliance component is produced by the combined injection molding process. A household appliance component is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: BRIGITTE FURTH, SVEN HOLT, ALFRED RAAB, TOBIAS HEISSWOLF
  • Patent number: 10480847
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes a housing and an appliance component which is disposed on the housing, is separate from the housing and is movable relative to the housing. A handle which is disposed on the appliance component has a handle recess which can be gripped from above and which is delimited by a front wall of the handle and a slanted bottom wall of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Heisswolf, Simon Kraemer, Alfred Raab, Christian Schmid, Ralph Staud, Thomas Tischer, Philipp Kleinlein, Andreas Kessler
  • Patent number: 10295246
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a position of a door on a housing of a household refrigeration appliance to change a placement of the door while located on the housing, includes separating a door leaf of the door from a front flange of the housing in a depth direction of the household refrigeration appliance by a gap in a closed state of the door. A tool is inserted into the gap and a readjustment element, which can be accessed through the gap, is readjusted by using the tool in such a way that the position of the door relative to the housing is changed in dependence on the readjustment of the readjustment element. A household refrigeration appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Heisswolf, Simon Kraemer, Alfred Raab, Christian Schmid
  • Publication number: 20180326628
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a component for a home appliance includes making the home appliance component from plastic in an injection molding process. During at least some phases of the injection molding process a combination of the thin-wall injection molding technique and the cascade molding technique is used. The invention also relates to a home appliance component manufactured according to the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: BRIGITTE FURTH, SVEN HOLT, ALFRED RAAB, TOBIAS HEISSWOLF
  • Publication number: 20180320953
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes a housing and an appliance component which is disposed on the housing, is separate from the housing and is movable relative to the housing. A handle which is disposed on the appliance component has a handle recess which can be gripped from above and which is delimited by a front wall of the handle and a slanted bottom wall of the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: TOBIAS HEISSWOLF, SIMON KRAEMER, ALFRED RAAB, CHRISTIAN SCHMID, RALPH STAUD, THOMAS TISCHER, PHILIPP KLEINLEIN, ANDREAS KESSLER
  • Publication number: 20180283768
    Abstract: A door for a domestic refrigeration appliance has a door inner panel and a door outer panel. The inner and outer panels are arranged on a single-piece, multiple-sided door frame. The door frame is open in the peripheral direction of the frame shape, and a separate recessed handle element is arranged in an open peripheral section of the door frame. There is also described a domestic refrigeration appliance with a door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: ALFRED RAAB, FRIEDRICH KLEIN, TOBIAS HEISSWOLF
  • Publication number: 20180156531
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a position of a door on a housing of a household refrigeration appliance to change a placement of the door while located on the housing, includes separating a door leaf of the door from a front flange of the housing in a depth direction of the household refrigeration appliance by a gap in a closed state of the door. A tool is inserted into the gap and a readjustment element, which can be accessed through the gap, is readjusted by using the tool in such a way that the position of the door relative to the housing is changed in dependence on the readjustment of the readjustment element. A household refrigeration appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: TOBIAS HEISSWOLF, SIMON KRAEMER, ALFRED RAAB, CHRISTIAN SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20170211304
    Abstract: A domestic refrigerator has a housing and a door pivotably disposed on the housing by way of hinges. At least one hinge has a door closing fitting part on the door side with a closing clip. A bearing element having a closing cam which is coupled to the locking clip in the closed state of the door is formed on the housing. The closing cam has a coupling projection formed, on a coupling contour which faces it in the state in which it is coupled to the locking clip, with a recess in which a projection end piece formed on the locking clip engages in the coupled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: SHIZENG FANG, KLAUS FLINNER, ALEXANDER GOERZ, ALFRED RAAB
  • Patent number: 9663982
    Abstract: A domestic cooling appliance has a housing and at least one receiving space for receiving food and first and second doors for closing the receiving space in the front. A first door is pivotally arranged at the housing a second door is pivotally arranged at the housing. The two doors are adjacent one another for closing the at least one receiving space at the front. The two doors are coupled to each other by a moving device, by which, upon operation of one of the two doors, automatically a concurrent movement of equal type of the other door is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Yang Cui, Yun Dai, Alfred Raab, Andreas Kempte
  • Patent number: 8122733
    Abstract: A compressor arrangement comprises a mounting, an evaporation trough, which may be inserted in the mounting on a number of slide-in tracks up to a final position and a compressor, wherein the separation of the evaporation trough from the compressor is greater in the final position of each slide-in track than at least one other point on the slide-in track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Alfred Raab