Patents by Inventor Bertram Schmid

Bertram Schmid 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: 7578149
    Abstract: A motor having a stator and a rotor is provided as a direct drive for a laundry treatment appliance. The stator of the motor is preferably centered by a preferably cylindrical or conical protuberance in a bearing hole in a bearing spider or a rear wall of a tub of the laundry treatment appliance. The stator may have lugs on pole insulation which guide the rotor during installation, so that permanent-magnet poles of the rotor cannot strike soft-magnetic poles of the stator. A method for installation of the motor is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bertram Schmid, Rainer Holzer, Thomas Mehrer
  • Publication number: 20050210604
    Abstract: A motor having a stator and a rotor is provided as a direct drive for a laundry treatment appliance. The stator of the motor is preferably centered by a preferably cylindrical or conical protuberance in a bearing hole in a bearing spider or a rear wall of a tub of the laundry treatment appliance. The stator may have lugs on pole insulation which guide the rotor during installation, so that permanent-magnet poles of the rotor cannot strike soft-magnetic poles of the stator. A method for installation of the motor is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Bertram Schmid, Rainer Holzer, Thomas Mehrer
  • Publication number: 20030140517
    Abstract: In an apparatus 4 for drying crockery in a washing chamber 2 of a dishwashing machine hot moist washing chamber air is produced, from which moisture is removed by condensation outside the washing chamber 2. In order to keep the amount of water required for condensation small and to keep it in readiness for the next washing operation a heat exchanger 5 is provided outside the washing chamber 2, the heat exchanger surface 6 of the heat exchanger 5 separating a water guide chamber 7 and an air guide chamber 8. The heat exchanger surface 6 is arranged in such a way that condensate runs down under the effect of the force of gravity into an intermediate storage means 9 to which the water guide chamber 7 is connected and which is communicated with the washing chamber 2 by way of a valve 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventor: Bertram Schmid