Patents by Inventor Ben Braden
Ben Braden 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: 11549690Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance for heating a food item is provided. The domestic cooking appliance includes a housing; a cooking chamber located in the housing and having a wall, the cooking chamber being configured to contain the food item while the food item is being heated; a heating element that provides heat to the cooking chamber for heating the food item; a temperature detector located in the cooking chamber and configured to detect a temperature in the cooking chamber; and a temperature detector positive motion stop located in the cooking chamber and surrounding a portion of the temperature detector.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Rose Marie Parker, Bryan Umphrey
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Patent number: 11378281Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing that is configured to guide flue gases exiting from an exhaust channel of a cooking compartment in an upward direction out of the housing. The rear vent trim includes a body, a back panel closing a rear side of the body, and a heat shield disposed between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim. The heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11339973Abstract: A household cooking appliance include a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening, the opening having a seal surrounding a perimeter of the opening; and a door covering the opening and moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The door includes a full glass inner panel that abuts the seal when the door is in a closed position. The full glass inner panel includes a surface having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is adjacent to a first area within the perimeter of the seal surrounding the opening and directly exposed to heating of the oven chamber, and the second portion is adjacent to a second area outside of the perimeter of the seal and not being exposed to heating of the oven chamber. The full glass inner panel extends substantially from edge-to-edge of the door.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventors: Ben Braden, Russell Dorsten, James David Green, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11339975Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance includes: a main housing; a cooking compartment; a gas burner that provides heat to the cooking compartment; a cooling air passageway located between the cooking compartment and a rear wall of the main housing, the cooling air passageway being separated from the cooking compartment by a rear wall of the cooking compartment; and a gas flue. The gas flue has an exhaust gas inlet open to the cooking chamber, the exhaust inlet being located in a lower panel of the gas flue, a cooling air inlet open to the cooling air passageway, an outlet located above the exhaust gas inlet, above the cooling air inlet, and above an uppermost portion of the cooking compartment, and an upper deflector located above the outlet and angled relative to vertical at a non-zero first angle such that the upper deflector extends over at least a portion of the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ian McIver, Richard Moyers, Charles Osborne, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11311145Abstract: A cooking appliance having a broiler may include a housing defining an upper compartment above the broiler and a rear compartment behind the broiler. A gas mixing pipe extends through the upper compartment to the rear compartment via an opening in an interior wall of the housing. A cover is removably coupled to an outer surface of the interior wall, such that opposing U-shaped slots of the two cover portions collectively form an aperture that conforms to an outer periphery of the gas mixing pipe. Accordingly, the cover blocks one or more gaps in the interior wall, such that the cover is configured to prevent gases from passing into the rear compartment through the gaps.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Daniel Davison, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11287064Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a cooking compartment, a gas burner tube in the cooking compartment, a gas supply orifice holder coupled to a gas supply line at a first end and having a gas supply orifice at a second end. The gas supply orifice is configured to inject gas from the gas supply line into the gas burner tube. The home cooking appliance further includes an anti-rotational housing fixing a position of the gas supply orifice holder with respect to the gas burner tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Josiah Fronckowiak, Jesus Garcia, Shaun Phillips
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Patent number: 11286698Abstract: Cooking appliances described herein may include an oven and a cooktop disposed above the oven. The oven may have an oven cavity and an oven door configured to open and close the oven cavity by pivoting about a horizontal axis. A linear actuator may be coupled to the oven door and configured to reposition the oven door in a vertical direction. Using this apparatus, a user may be assisted by the vertically-repositionable oven door when lifting and lowering objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Shaun Phillips
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Patent number: 11204171Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance for heating a food item includes a main housing; a cooking compartment in the main housing, the cooking compartment being configured to receive the food item to be heated, the cooking compartment having a first sidewall and a second sidewall; a gas burner that provides heat to the cooking compartment; a burner panel located between the gas burner and the cooking compartment; and a first fin protruding from the first sidewall and into the cooking compartment.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ian McIver, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20210254837Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance includes: a main housing; a cooking compartment; a gas burner that provides heat to the cooking compartment; a cooling air passageway located between the cooking compartment and a rear wall of the main housing, the cooling air passageway being separated from the cooking compartment by a rear wall of the cooking compartment; and a gas flue. The gas flue has an exhaust gas inlet open to the cooking chamber, the exhaust inlet being located in a lower panel of the gas flue, a cooling air inlet open to the cooling air passageway, an outlet located above the exhaust gas inlet, above the cooling air inlet, and above an uppermost portion of the cooking compartment, and an upper deflector located above the outlet and angled relative to vertical at a non-zero first angle such that the upper deflector extends over at least a portion of the outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Ben Braden, Ian McIver, Richard Moyers, Charles Osborne, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20210254833Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance for heating a food item includes a main housing; a cooking compartment in the main housing, the cooking compartment being configured to receive the food item to be heated, the cooking compartment having a first sidewall and a second sidewall; a gas burner that provides heat to the cooking compartment; a burner panel located between the gas burner and the cooking compartment; and a first fin protruding from the first sidewall and into the cooking compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Ben Braden, Ian McIver, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11035163Abstract: A domestic appliance may include: a shell; a door coupled to the shell; a treatment compartment defined at least in part by the shell and the door; a panel configured to enclose at least a portion of a cavity below the treatment compartment; an articulation arrangement coupled to the shell and configured to allow the panel to move from a closed and locked vertical position to an unlocked and open non-vertical position whilst being coupled to the shell; and a locking mechanism configured to selectively lock the panel in the vertical position. The articulation arrangement may include a first linear slot and a second slot including a linear portion and a curved portion extending from one end of the linear portion, the first linear slot engaging a first pin and the second slot engaging a second pin.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Shaun Phillips
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Publication number: 20210153690Abstract: A cooking appliance having a broiler may include a housing defining an upper compartment above the broiler and a rear compartment behind the broiler. A gas mixing pipe extends through the upper compartment to the rear compartment via an opening in an interior wall of the housing. A cover is removably coupled to an outer surface of the interior wall, such that opposing U-shaped slots of the two cover portions collectively form an aperture that conforms to an outer periphery of the gas mixing pipe. Accordingly, the cover blocks one or more gaps in the interior wall, such that the cover is configured to prevent gases from passing into the rear compartment through the gaps.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Ben Braden, Daniel Davison, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11009236Abstract: A door assembly for a domestic cooking appliance includes an outer door skin; an inner door liner; a transparent viewing panel assembly between the outer door skin and the inner door liner; an interior region located between the outer door skin and the viewing panel assembly; a lower air opening in a lower region of the door assembly that fluidly connects the interior region with an environment outside of the door assembly; an upper air opening in an upper region of the door assembly that fluidly connects the interior region with the environment outside of the door assembly; and an angled air guide forming a portion of a wall of the interior region between the lower air opening and the upper air opening, the angled air guide being non-coplanar with, and non-perpendicular to, a surface of a viewing panel of the viewing panel assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ian McIver, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11009234Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a cooktop surface and a gas pedestal burner on the cooktop surface. The gas pedestal burner includes a burner portion having a sidewall, a lower surface facing the cooktop surface, a plurality of burner ports in the sidewall, and a base portion under the burner portion. The base portion elevates the burner portion in a vertical direction above the cooktop surface and has a lower mounting surface disposed on the cooktop surface. An area of a footprint of the lower mounting surface of the base portion is less than an area of a footprint of the lower surface of the burner portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: BSH Home Appliances CorporationInventors: David Adams, Ben Braden, Russell Dorsten, Jonathan Grey, Donald Hendricks, Chris Hill, David Nowak, Timothy Russell, Graham Sadtler, Phil Springer
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Publication number: 20210102710Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing that is configured to guide flue gases exiting from an exhaust channel of a cooking compartment in an upward direction out of the housing. The rear vent trim includes a body, a back panel closing a rear side of the body, and a heat shield disposed between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim. The heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20210102419Abstract: A domestic appliance may include: a shell; a door coupled to the shell; a treatment compartment defined at least in part by the shell and the door; a panel configured to enclose at least a portion of a cavity below the treatment compartment; an articulation arrangement coupled to the shell and configured to allow the panel to move from a closed and locked vertical position to an unlocked and open non-vertical position whilst being coupled to the shell; and a locking mechanism configured to selectively lock the panel in the vertical position. The articulation arrangement may include a first linear slot and a second slot including a linear portion and a curved portion extending from one end of the linear portion, the first linear slot engaging a first pin and the second slot engaging a second pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Ben Braden, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Shaun Phillips
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Publication number: 20210048121Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a cooking compartment, a gas burner tube in the cooking compartment, a gas supply orifice holder coupled to a gas supply line at a first end and having a gas supply orifice at a second end. The gas supply orifice is configured to inject gas from the gas supply line into the gas burner tube. The home cooking appliance further includes an anti-rotational housing fixing a position of the gas supply orifice holder with respect to the gas burner tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Ben Braden, Josiah Fronckowiak, Jesus Garcia, Shaun Phillips
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Publication number: 20200408417Abstract: A door assembly for a domestic cooking appliance includes an outer door skin; an inner door liner; a transparent viewing panel assembly between the outer door skin and the inner door liner; an interior region located between the outer door skin and the viewing panel assembly; a lower air opening in a lower region of the door assembly that fluidly connects the interior region with an environment outside of the door assembly; an upper air opening in an upper region of the door assembly that fluidly connects the interior region with the environment outside of the door assembly; and an angled air guide forming a portion of a wall of the interior region between the lower air opening and the upper air opening, the angled air guide being non-coplanar with, and non-perpendicular to, a surface of a viewing panel of the viewing panel assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Ben Braden, Ian McIver, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20200408017Abstract: Cooking appliances described herein may include an oven and a cooktop disposed above the oven. The oven may have an oven cavity and an oven door configured to open and close the oven cavity by pivoting about a horizontal axis. A linear actuator may be coupled to the oven door and configured to reposition the oven door in a vertical direction. Using this apparatus, a user may be assisted by the vertically-repositionable oven door when lifting and lowering objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Shaun Phillips
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Publication number: 20200378612Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance for heating a food item is provided. The domestic cooking appliance includes a housing; a cooking chamber located in the housing and having a wall, the cooking chamber being configured to contain the food item while the food item is being heated; a heating element that provides heat to the cooking chamber for heating the food item; a temperature detector located in the cooking chamber and configured to detect a temperature in the cooking chamber; and a temperature detector positive motion stop located in the cooking chamber and surrounding a portion of the temperature detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Rose Marie Parker, Bryan Umphrey