Patents by Inventor Dino Bongini

Dino Bongini 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: 20100050700
    Abstract: A front loading laundry washing machine is provided. The laundry washing machine includes a washing tub, a laundry basket mounted in the tub, a motor to actuate the basket in rotation and a system for feeding liquid in the basket. The basket has a first and second end wall between which a peripheral wall extends. The liquid feeding system comprises at least one inflow passage formed in a prevalently imperforated annular region of the peripheral wall of the basket and an inflow conduit having a delivery outlet facing toward the prevalently imperforated annular region. The laundry washing system is further provided with a positioning system designed for bringing and maintaining the basket in a substantially predetermined angular position within the tub, in such a position the inflow passage being substantially aligned with the delivery outlet of the inflow conduit to receive therefrom a liquid flow for the purpose of loading of liquid in the basket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Indesit Company S.p.A.
    Inventor: Dino Bongini
  • Patent number: 7421867
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine comprises a dispenser of washing agents (10) having at least a movable body (26A, 26B, 40) defining a compartment for containing a dose of a respective washing agent. The movable body (26A, 26B, 40) is mounted in a housing (11) in such a way as to be able to assume a first position, for the manual admission of a washing agent into the compartment through a loading mouth (27, 41), and a second position, for withdrawing the washing agent from the compartment by means of a flow of liquid (IN). The movable body (26A, 26B, 40) is pivotally supported in the respective housing (11) to move angularly from said first to said second position and vice versa, around an axis (X) that is substantially perpendicular or otherwise transverse relative to the axis (Y) of the loading mouth (27, 41) of the body (10). Preferably, the movement of the body (26A, 26B, 40) from the first to the second position is obtained by means of the aforesaid flow of liquid (IN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Merloni Elettrodomestici S.p.A.
    Inventor: Dino Bongini
  • Publication number: 20040226320
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine (1) has a cabinet (2) inferiorly delimited by a respective bottom (F) in which a recess (17) is formed. The recess (17) is open towards the exterior of the cabinet (2) in two directions, substantially orthogonal to each other (X, Y).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: MERLONI ELETTRODOMESTICI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Dino Bongini
  • Publication number: 20040216499
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine comprises a dispenser of washing agents (10) having at least a movable body (26A, 26B, 40) defining a compartment for containing a dose of a respective washing agent. The movable body (26A, 26B, 40) is mounted in a housing (11) in such a way as to be able to assume a first position, for the manual admission of a washing agent into the compartment through a loading mouth (27, 41), and a second position, for withdrawing the washing agent from the compartment by means of a flow of liquid (IN). The movable body (26A, 26B, 40) is pivotally supported in the respective housing (11) to move angularly from said first to said second position and vice versa, around an axis (X) that is substantially perpendicular or otherwise transverse relative to the axis (Y) of the loading mouth (27, 41) of the body (10). Preferably, the movement of the body (26A, 26B, 40) from the first to the second position is obtained by means of the aforesaid flow of liquid (IN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: MERLONI ELETTRODOMESTICI S.p.A.
    Inventor: Dino Bongini
  • Patent number: 6169964
    Abstract: A system for controlling the consumption of a household appliance, comprising an electronic microcontroller and non-volatile memory device associated with the microcontroller, the household appliance being connected during use with at least one source of an external resource (water, electric energy, gas, etc.), the external resource being required by the apparatus for carrying out an operating cycle, where the apparatus also comprises a setting device for the manual selection of one or more operating parameters, and signaling device. Coded information are contained within a memory, which are used by the control system as a function of at least one selection actuated through the setting device, for calculating the consumption of the external resource required by the household appliance to execute an operating cycle, the signaling means being capable, if required, to show the consumption level of the external resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Merloni Elettrodomestici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Valerio Aisa, Dino Bongini
  • Patent number: 5570597
    Abstract: A front loading laundry washing machine, whereby the group constituted by the tub, the basket and by the balancing masses of the machine is suspended within the cabinet in a position being substantially higher than that of normal front loading washing machines, so as that at least the aperture of the frontal wall of the cabinet can be found at a height substantially higher than that of normal front loading washing machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Merloni Elettrodomestici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Dino Bongini, Sandro Duri, Andrea Stopponi
  • Patent number: 5548978
    Abstract: A front loading laundry washing machine, of the domestic type, whereby the body of the washing agents distributor is mounted on the frontal wall of the washing chamber, in correspondence with the respective aperture, and facing towards the inside of the basket through the aperture of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Merloni Elettrodomestici S.p.A.
    Inventors: Dino Bongini, Sandro Duri, Andrea Stopponi