Patents by Inventor Erwin Frank

Erwin Frank 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: 12507860
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity encompassing a dishwasher interior, and a dispensing facility designed to dispense a cleaning agent into the dishwasher interior. The dispensing facility has a receiving part including a receiving area for receiving the cleaning agent. A cover seals the receiving area. A sealing arrangement has at least one section arranged between the receiving part and the cover. The sealing arrangement includes a first sealing lip and a second sealing lip that is different from the first sealing lip. The sealing arrangement runs completely around the receiving area, with the first sealing lip running only partially around the receiving area, and the second sealing lip also running only partially around the receiving area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Frank, Stefan Würth
  • Publication number: 20240349975
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity encompassing a dishwasher interior, and a dispensing facility designed to dispense a cleaning agent into the dishwasher interior. The dispensing facility has a receiving part including a receiving area for receiving the cleaning agent. A cover seals the receiving area. A sealing arrangement has at least one section arranged between the receiving part and the cover. The sealing arrangement includes a first sealing lip and a second sealing lip that is different from the first sealing lip. The sealing arrangement runs completely around the receiving area, with the first sealing lip running only partially around the receiving area, and the second sealing lip also running only partially around the receiving area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Erwin Frank, Stefan Würth
  • Publication number: 20220313055
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher including a dishwasher cavity, a spray facility for applying washing liquor and/or fresh water to dishes accommodated in the dishwasher cavity, a drive facility for actively driving the spray facility, and a control apparatus for activating the drive facility depending on a control signal. An input unit detects a user input for moving the spray facility, and a generation unit generates the control signal depending on the user input detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Lugert, Erwin Frank
  • Publication number: 20200337516
    Abstract: In a method for operating a household dishwasher with a control apparatus for carrying out a washing program from a plurality of washing programs for washing washware arranged in a washing chamber, an optical sensor signal of the washing chamber is captured by an optical sensor of an external facility that is external to the household dishwasher. At least one intensive washing zone for intensively washing the washware in the washing chamber is determined in response to the captured optical sensor signal, and a drive facility is actuated to drive a spraying facility for spraying the washware with washing liquid, such that the determined at least one intensive washing zone is embodied by the spraying facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Erwin Frank, Michael Lugert, Michael Georg Rosenbauer, Norbert Gerstner, Anton Oblinger
  • Publication number: 20100047639
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the environmentally sound disposal of air/solvent mixtures which are made of combustible gaseous vaporous or liquid waste products, using a fuel cell system for the recycling of the air/solvent mixtures while removing the environmentally compatible exhaust air developing in the fuel cell system, the waste heat that is produced and the electric power that is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Claus Peter Kluge, Marc Bednarz, Erwin Frank, Alexander Gienapp, Gerhard Huppmann
  • Patent number: 5491418
    Abstract: A diagnostic tool having a communications interface adapter for flexible diagnostic communications with automotive vehicle electronic devices automatically identifies, when connected to the adapter, the vehicle type associated with the adapter, and automatically establishes from stored communications information, the diagnostic communications format under which the electronic devices associated with the identified vehicle type communicate. Diagnostic tool communications hardware is then automatically initialized to prepare for diagnostic communications with minimum operator intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Enrique J. Alfaro, Erwin Frank