Patents by Inventor Horst Krenz
Horst Krenz 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).
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Patent number: 8020548Abstract: A household appliance includes a storage compartment and a useful storage volume that is closable by a door. The door is able to slide into the storage compartment with a guiding system during opening. To simplify the assembly of the household appliance, the useful storage volume is provided in a useful storage volume module while the storage compartment is provided in a storage compartment module. The two modules represent two separate components that are assembled so as to form the household appliance.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Patent number: 7445005Abstract: A household appliance door, which is mounted in a manner that enables it to pivot about a joint axis, has a door handle that can pivot about a door handle axis running parallel to the joint axis. At least one controlling mechanism is associated with the door handle. When the door executes a pivotal movement in a first pivoting direction, the controlling mechanism pivots the door handle in a second pivoting direction opposite the first pivoting direction, as such, reliable actuation of the door handle is achieved. The door handle is pivotally mounted in a bearing housing and the bearing housing extends in an axial direction along the entire door.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Patent number: 7261100Abstract: A household device includes a useful storage volume that can be closed by a door and a storage compartment disposed below, above, or to the side of the useful storage volume into which the door can be displaced. The door is associated with a guiding system including at least one slide track, wherein a guiding element associated with the door is guided by displacing the door from a closed position and moving it into the storage compartment. The slide track includes a start section that initially guides the door in an upward direction when it moves out of the closed position. Such a configuration has the same size as conventional household device with an increased useful storage volume.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Patent number: 7252082Abstract: A household appliance has a useful storage volume that can be closed by a door pivotally mounted around a horizontal articulation axis and also has a storage compartment. The door can be displaced in the storage compartment by a guiding system including at least one guiding element associated with the door, the guiding element being guided in a slide track associated with the appliance. To produce an ergonomically economical opening and closing movement of the door, the door is provided with at least one counterweight configuration that, during displacement of the door, exerts a balancing force on the door acting against the weight of the door.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Patent number: 7234457Abstract: A door for household appliances, in particular, a door for cooking appliances, are mounted to pivot about an articulation axis include a door handle that can be pivoted about a door-handle axis that runs parallel to the articulation axis and is connected to at least one control mechanism. When the door is pivoted in a first pivoting direction, the control mechanism pivots the door handle in a second pivoting direction that is opposite to the first. According to the invention, to obtain a reliable actuation of the door handle, a protective device is allocated to the control mechanism and prevents the pivoting motion of the door handle, during the actuation of the latter, from being transmitted to the control mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: BSH Bosch und Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Patent number: 7036499Abstract: Household devices that a useful compartment and can be closed by a door provided with a door handle include a storage compartment into which the door can be displaced by guiding system and at least one guiding element associated with the door and guided in a sliding track associated with the household appliance. To be able to operate the door in an ergonomically favorable manner, at least one control mechanism is associated with the door handle. When the door pivots in a first pivoting direction, the control mechanism pivots the door handle in a second pivoting direction counter to the first pivoting direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Publication number: 20050134158Abstract: A household device includes a useful storage volume that can be closed by a door and a storage compartment disposed below, above, or to the side of the useful storage volume into which the door can be displaced. The door is associated with a guiding system including at least one slide track, wherein a guiding element associated with the door is guided by displacing the door from a closed position and moving it into the storage compartment. The slide track includes a start section that initially guides the door in an upward direction when it moves out of the closed position. Such a configuration has the same size as conventional household device with an increased useful storage volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Publication number: 20050034381Abstract: Household devices that a useful compartment and can be closed by a door provided with a door handle include a storage compartment into which the door can be displaced by guiding system and at least one guiding element associated with the door and guided in a sliding track associated with the household appliance. To be able to operate the door in an ergonomically favorable manner, at least one control mechanism is associated with the door handle. When the door pivots in a first pivoting direction, the control mechanism pivots the door handle in a second pivoting direction counter to the first pivoting direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Publication number: 20050022802Abstract: A household appliance door, which is mounted in a manner that enables it to pivot about a joint axis, has a door handle that can pivot about a door handle axis running parallel to the joint axis. At least one controlling mechanism is associated with the door handle. When the door executes a pivotal movement in a first pivoting direction, the controlling mechanism pivots the door handle in a second pivoting direction opposite the first pivoting direction, as such, reliable actuation of the door handle is achieved. The door handle is pivotally mounted in a bearing housing and the bearing housing extends in an axial direction along the entire door.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Publication number: 20050023946Abstract: A household appliance includes a storage compartment and a useful storage volume that is closable by a door. The door is able to slide into the storage compartment with a guiding system during opening. To simplify the assembly of the household appliance, the useful storage volume is provided in a useful storage volume module while the storage compartment is provided in a storage compartment module. The two modules represent two separate components that are assembled so as to form the household appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Publication number: 20050023843Abstract: A door for household appliances, in particular, a door for cooking appliances, are mounted to pivot about an articulation axis include a door handle that can be pivoted about a door-handle axis that runs parallel to the articulation axis and is connected to at least one control mechanism. When the door is pivoted in a first pivoting direction, the control mechanism pivots the door handle in a second pivoting direction that is opposite to the first. According to the invention, to obtain a reliable actuation of the door handle, a protective device is allocated to the control mechanism and prevents the pivoting motion of the door handle, during the actuation of the latter, from being transmitted to the control mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer
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Publication number: 20050023945Abstract: A household appliance has a useful storage volume that can be closed by a door pivotally mounted around a horizontal articulation axis and also has a storage compartment. The door can be displaced in the storage compartment by a guiding system including at least one guiding element associated with the door, the guiding element being guided in a slide track associated with the appliance. To produce an ergonomically economical opening and closing movement of the door, the door is provided with at least one counterweight configuration that, during displacement of the door, exerts a balancing force on the door acting against the weight of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Frank Bartmann, Jochen Herbolsheimer, Horst Krenz, Heiko Meyer