Patents by Inventor BERND OSBAR

BERND OSBAR 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: 20260085880
    Abstract: A household appliance apparatus, in particular a household refrigerator apparatus, includes a housing which defines a usable space, in particular a refrigeration space, a power control device, a primary control device which is spatially separate from the power control device, and a bus connection for combined power and data transmission between the power control device and the primary control device. The power control device is disposed in a lower area of the housing and the primary control device is disposed in an upper area of the housing. A household appliance having the household appliance apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Armin WEBER, Stephan KEMPFLE, Harald JOKSCH, Bernd OSBAR, Andreas HIRSCHBOLZ
  • Publication number: 20260085871
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance apparatus for insertion into a refrigeration sector of a household refrigeration appliance provides the household refrigeration appliance apparatus with improved properties with respect to cabling. The household refrigeration appliance apparatus includes a control unit for controlling at least one functional unit, and an interface unit for connecting the control unit to a main control unit of the household refrigeration appliance. A no-frost apparatus, a household refrigeration appliance and a method for operating a household refrigeration appliance, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Harald JOKSCH, Bernd OSBAR, Michael SCHNEIDER, Holger WALLISER
  • Publication number: 20250198694
    Abstract: A communication module for a domestic appliance is configured as a sensor hub. The sensor hub is designed to process digital signals and to generate a signal for a communication bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Martin SCHIMMELE, Bernd OSBAR, Armin WEBER
  • Patent number: 11486632
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance includes a thermally insulated body or carcass which delimits a coolable interior, a refrigeration device for cooling the coolable interior space, a drawer which has a front panel, and a display provided on the front panel. The front panel includes a front side pointing away from the coolable interior space, a rear side pointing towards the coolable interior space, a top front edge and a top rear edge. The top region of the front panel includes a first region which has a recessed grip open to the top and which extends between the top front edge and the top rear edge, and a second region which extends next to the first region and in which the display is provided in a depression. The front panel includes a semitransparent cover. A method for producing a household refrigeration appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Feldmeyer, Simon Kraemer, Sandra Oefele, Bernd Osbar, Daniel Wengert
  • Patent number: 11408664
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance includes a thermally insulated body delimiting a coolable interior space, a refrigeration device cooling the interior space, a drawer with a front panel to be pushed into and pulled out of the interior space to deposit and remove food, and a display on the front panel. The front panel closes the interior space when the drawer is pushed in, and the upper region of the front panel has an upwardly open recessed grip with a front wall portion to be gripped from the rear and an oblique recessed grip portion transitioning into the wall portion to be gripped from the rear. The display is in a depression of the grip portion and the front panel includes a semitransparent cover completely covering the display through which displayed information shines when the display is switched on. A method for producing the domestic refrigeration device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Feldmeyer, Simon Kraemer, Sandra Oefele, Bernd Osbar, Daniel Wengert
  • Publication number: 20210041160
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance includes a thermally insulated body delimiting a coolable interior space, a refrigeration device cooling the interior space, a drawer with a front panel to be pushed into and pulled out of the interior space to deposit and remove food, and a display on the front panel. The front panel closes the interior space when the drawer is pushed in, and the upper region of the front panel has an upwardly open recessed grip with a front wall portion to be gripped from the rear and an oblique recessed grip portion transitioning into the wall portion to be gripped from the rear. The display is in a depression of the grip portion and the front panel includes a semitransparent cover completely covering the display through which displayed information shines when the display is switched on. A method for producing the domestic refrigeration device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: ANDREAS FELDMEYER, SIMON KRAEMER, SANDRA OEFELE, BERND OSBAR, DANIEL WENGERT
  • Publication number: 20200408462
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance includes a thermally insulated body or carcass which delimits a coolable interior, a refrigeration device for cooling the coolable interior space, a drawer which has a front panel, and a display provided on the front panel. The front panel includes a front side pointing away from the coolable interior space, a rear side pointing towards the coolable interior space, a top front edge and a top rear edge. The top region of the front panel includes a first region which has a recessed grip open to the top and which extends between the top front edge and the top rear edge, and a second region which extends next to the first region and in which the display is provided in a depression. The front panel includes a semitransparent cover. A method for producing a household refrigeration appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: ANDREAS FELDMEYER, SIMON KRAEMER, SANDRA OEFELE, BERND OSBAR, DANIEL WENGERT
  • Patent number: 10317131
    Abstract: A domestic refrigeration device includes a thermally insulated body with an internal compartment delimiting an interior coolable food storage space, a refrigeration apparatus cooling the interior space, a door leaf closing the interior space in a closed state and making the interior space accessible in an open state, and an interior lighting configuration illuminating the interior space with the door leaf open. The interior space has side walls with a depth, edges facing the door leaf, a ceiling and a rear wall rearwardly closing the interior space. The lighting configuration includes a first partial interior lighting configuration illuminating the interior space only at least approximately starting from a distance or space measured from the edges of the side walls facing the door leaf to the rear wall, and a second independent partial interior lighting configuration illuminating only a front region of the interior space facing the door leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Max Eicher, Philipp Kleinlein, Bernd Osbar, Christian Schmid, Armin Weber, Andreas Danler, Manfred Gstrein, Georg Seebacher
  • Patent number: 9885515
    Abstract: An appliance body of a refrigeration appliance can be closed off in its upper part by at least one door and receives a drawer in its lower part. The drawer can be locked in the closed position by a latch, which engages into a fitting part that supports the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Osbar, Gerald Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20170241699
    Abstract: An appliance body of a refrigeration appliance can be closed off in its upper part by at least one door and receives a drawer in its lower part. The drawer can be locked in the closed position by a latch, which engages into a fitting part that supports the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: BERND OSBAR, GERALD SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20170205134
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a base body having an interior compartment, a door leaf pivotable relative to the base body for opening and closing the interior compartment and a closing device having an actuator. The actuator is constructed to move the closing device back and forth between a position latching the closed door leaf and a position unlatching the closed door leaf. The closing device has an RFID scanner and the household appliance is constructed to control the actuator, based on a code which is stored in an RFID transponder, is read by the RFID scanner and is associated with the closing device, in such a way that, depending on the position of the closing device before reading the code, the actuator moves the closing device from the latched position into the unlatched position or from the unlatched position into the latched position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: BERND OSBAR, GERALD SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20170108267
    Abstract: A domestic refrigeration appliance includes a thermally insulated body having an internal container which delimits a coolable interior provided for the storage of food, a refrigeration apparatus for cooling the coolable interior space and a door leaf which is provided to close the coolable interior in a closed state and to make the coolable interior accessible in an open state. An interior lighting system includes at least one lighting device for at least partially lighting the coolable interior when the door leaf is open. A light color of light generated by the interior lighting system can be set or adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: BERND OSBAR, CHRISTIAN SCHMID, ARMIN WEBER, MAX EICHER, PHILIPP KLEINLEIN, ANDREAS DANLER, MANFRED GSTREIN, GEORG SEEBACHER
  • Publication number: 20160313052
    Abstract: A domestic refrigeration device includes a thermally insulated body with an internal compartment delimiting an interior coolable food storage space, a refrigeration apparatus cooling the interior space, a door leaf closing the interior space in a closed state and making the interior space accessible in an open state, and an interior lighting configuration illuminating the interior space with the door leaf open. The interior space has side walls with a depth, edges facing the door leaf, a ceiling and a rear wall rearwardly closing the interior space. The lighting configuration includes a first partial interior lighting configuration illuminating the interior space only at least approximately starting from a distance or space measured from the edges of the side walls facing the door leaf to the rear wall, and a second independent partial interior lighting configuration illuminating only a front region of the interior space facing the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: MAX EICHER, PHILIPP KLEINLEIN, BERND OSBAR, CHRISTIAN SCHMID, ARMIN WEBER, ANDREAS DANLER, MANFRED GSTREIN, GEORG SEEBACHER
  • Publication number: 20160313053
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes at least one illumination device and an elongated optical waveguide. The optical waveguide has a length, two ends, a back side and a front side opposite the back side. One of the two ends is optically coupled to the at least one illumination device, or each of the two ends is optically coupled to at least one illumination device. The back side of the optical waveguide has a coupling-out structure, which is an integral component of the back side of the optical waveguide and is configured to couple the light coupled into the optical waveguide out of the optical waveguide at least over a majority of the entire length of the optical waveguide through the front side of the optical waveguide. A domestic refrigeration appliance having such an illumination apparatus as an interior illumination apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: MAX EICHER, PHILIPP KLEINLEIN, BERND OSBAR, CHRISTIAN SCHMID, ARMIN WEBER, ANDREAS DANLER, MANFRED GSTREIN, GEORG SEEBACHER