Patents by Inventor Galina Ballheimer

Galina Ballheimer 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).

  • Front-loading laundry treatment machine
    Patent number: 8099983
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a liquor container suspended for oscillating in a housing. A washing drum is rotatable within the liquor container. A material-elastic collar is connected for establishing a liquid tight seal on the edge of a front-side loading opening of the liquor container, connecting with a housing-side loading opening, and with a door mounted for sealing the housing-side loading opening. A filling element is located on the door and has a curved outward portion in the shape of a truncated cone. The filling element has a surface area with at least one recess commencing close to a largest diameter of the cone portion, and forms a rising surface of sickle shape in the direction of the interior of the drum and toward a smallest diameter of the cone on the surface area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Galina Ballheimer, Bernhard Heym, Rainer Jurmann, Mark Sauer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Front-Loading Laundry Treatment Machine
    Publication number: 20090301143
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a liquor container suspended for oscillating in a housing. A washing drum is rotatable within the liquor container. A material-elastic collar is connected for establishing a liquid tight seal on the edge of a front-side loading opening of the liquor container, connecting with a housing-side loading opening, and with a door mounted for sealing the housing-side loading opening. A filling element is located on the door and has a curved outward portion in the shape of a truncated cone. The filling element has a surface area with at least one recess commencing close to a largest diameter of the cone portion, and forms a rising surface of sickle shape in the direction of the interior of the drum and toward a smallest diameter of the cone on the surface area thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Galina Ballheimer, Bernhard Heym, Rainer Jurmann, Mark Sauer, Wilfried Wildung