Patents by Inventor Irene Dumkow
Irene Dumkow 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: 9879903Abstract: A refrigeration device including a heat-insulated housing, which contains a storage compartment, a water tank, a fan for propelling a stream of cold air that passes through an evaporator and a distribution unit for the controlled distribution of the stream of cold air along at least two circulation paths, the first of which is in closer thermal contact with the water tank than the second.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Patent number: 9459035Abstract: A refrigeration device is provided that includes a housing enclosing an interior and an assembly in the interior having a storage compartment for chunks of ice and a stirrer. The stirrer is rotatable about an axis that extends through the storage compartment to move chunks of ice contained in the storage compartment in relation to each other and to move ice towards a dispensing passage that extends through the housing. A closable flap is interposed between the storage compartment and the dispensing passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Helen Lewis, Peter Nalbach, Martin Pünjer, Craig Duncan Webster, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
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Patent number: 9243837Abstract: A dispensing device for free-flowing or pourable products, in particular in a refrigeration device. Said dispensing device has a feed pipe for a pourable product, comprising an exit opening and a shut-off flap that is situated at the exit opening, and an outlet for the free-flowing product, said outlet being attached to the flap and displaceable with the latter.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Marek Myszko, Peter Nalbach, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
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Patent number: 9151536Abstract: A dispensing device for a free-flowing or pourable refrigerated product is situated on the front face of the housing of a refrigeration device. A sleeve, through which the dispensing device is accessed, protrudes beyond the front face and is surrounded by a peripheral frame that protrudes beyond the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Patent number: 9097458Abstract: A refrigeration device comprising a heat-insulated housing, which contains a storage compartment, a water tank, a fan for propelling a stream of cold air that passes through an evaporator and a distribution unit for the controlled distribution of the stream of cold air along at least two circulation paths, the first of which is in closer thermal contact with the water tank than the second.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20150203344Abstract: A refrigeration device including a heat-insulated housing, which contains a storage compartment, a water tank, a fan for propelling a stream of cold air that passes through an evaporator and a distribution unit for the controlled distribution of the stream of cold air along at least two circulation paths, the first of which is in closer thermal contact with the water tank than the second.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Martin BUCHSTAB, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim YAZAN
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Patent number: 8376184Abstract: A device for removing condensation from an ice duct of an ice dispenser for a refrigerator. The device may include a flap, which is arranged to seal an output opening of the ice dispenser and a controller for the flap, which is designed to move the flap between a closed position, in which the inner side of the flap contacts the edge of the outlet opening and a dispensing position in which the flap is withdrawn from the edge of the outlet opening to permit the dispensing of ice cubes. Further, the controller is designed to open the flap after expiry of a first time period, during which the flap is not moved by the action of a user or by the controller and to close the flap after expiry of a second time period.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Jürgen Diebold, Irene Dumkow, Klaus Flinner, Markus Hanichl, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Günter Raubold, Gerald Schmidt, Martin Schweyer
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Patent number: 8240519Abstract: An ice dispenser including an ice supply container; a shaft extending into the supply container; a stirrer rotatable about the shaft which extends into the supply container, the stirrer being connectable to a rotation drive device that rotates the stirrer; an output chamber communicated with the supply container, the output chamber having an ice outlet opening; a slider rotatable in the output chamber, a rotation of the slider in a predetermined manner operating to bring the slider into moving engagement with ice located in the output chamber; and a coupling selectively disposable between an active coupling disposition in which the coupling operatively interconnects the stirrer and the slider to one another such that the slider rotates in correspondence with a rotation of the stirrer and a decoupling disposition in which the coupling does not operatively interconnect the stirrer and the slider to one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Helen Lewis, Peter Nalbach, Craig Duncan Webster, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
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Patent number: 8122734Abstract: A refrigerator is provided that includes a housing and a dispensing device for flowable and/or pourable chilled material, the dispensing device being located in a front recess of the housing. The front of the housing is covered at least in part by an adjustable decorative plate. The recess is accessible through a hole in the decorative plate while a case that is open towards the dispensing device and the hole of the decorative plate is adjustably mounted in the recess.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Patent number: 8025083Abstract: The invention relates to a support carrier for supporting a container to receive cooled goods from a cooled goods dispensing machines delivering cooled liquids and water ice cubes. Cooled goods dispensing machines are often integrated into refrigerators in such a way that a refrigerator door is provided with a recess into which a drink container is set. For the recess to be useable with containers of different sizes, and at the same time to ensure a secure support for the containers, a support carrier is provided having at least one joint and which can be, for example, folded out of the recess to permit a relatively larger container to be supported relative to the recess.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2006Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach
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Publication number: 20100326120Abstract: A refrigeration device having a water tank with at least one wall surface and a bottom surface and a flat heating system that is arranged on the water tank, wherein the flat heating system extends at least partially over the bottom surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20100218538Abstract: An ice-crushing unit having a shaft, a plurality of axially-spaced stops disposed on the shaft, and a plurality of cutter sets provided on the shaft. A first cutter set may be rotationally fixed on the shaft and a second cutter set may be rotatable with the shaft or fixed to a housing. In an exemplary embodiment, the second cutter set is clamped in a longitudinal direction of the shaft by at least one spring acting in the longitudinal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Jürgen Diebold, Irene Dumkow, Klaus Flinner, Markus Hanichl, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Martin Pünjer, Günter Raubold, Gerald Schmidt, Martin Schweyer, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20100218848Abstract: The invention relates to a support carrier for supporting a container to receive cooled goods from a cooled goods dispensing machines delivering cooled liquids and water ice cubes. Cooled goods dispensing machines are often integrated into refrigerators in such a way that a refrigerator door is provided with a recess into which a drink container is set. For the recess to be useable with containers of different sizes, and at the same time to ensure a secure support for the containers, a support carrier is provided having at least one joint and which can be, for example, folded out of the recess to permit a relatively larger container to be supported relative to the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach
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Publication number: 20100200621Abstract: A device for removing condensation from an ice duct of an ice dispenser for a refrigerator. The device may include a flap, which is arranged to seal an output opening of the ice dispenser and a controller for the flap, which is designed to move the flap between a closed position, in which the inner side of the flap contacts the edge of the outlet opening and a dispensing position in which the flap is withdrawn from the edge of the outlet opening to permit the dispensing of ice cubes. Further, the controller is designed to open the flap after expiry of a first time period, during which the flap is not moved by the action of a user or by the controller and to close the flap after expiry of a second time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Jürgen Diebold, Irene Dumkow, Klaus Flinner, Markus Hanichl, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Günter Raubold, Gerald Schmidt, Martin Schweyer
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Publication number: 20100186437Abstract: A cooling device having a housing, an ice passage that extends through a wall of the housing, and a condensation water channel that extends from the outer end of the ice passage downward in the interior of the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Jürgen Diebold, Irene Dumkow, Klaus Flinner, Markus Hanichl, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Günter Raubold, Gerald Schmidt, Martin Schweyer
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Patent number: 7762292Abstract: A dispensing device for free-flowing or pourable products, said device comprising a dispenser opening for the products, which is situated in a recess on the front of the device and a support that can be removed from the recess and has at least one first tray surface for a container that is to be filled from the dispenser opening. The support comprises a base part that is detachably fixed in the recess and a tray part, on which the first tray surface is formed. Said tray part is connected to the base part in such a way that it can be displaced between a first position, in which the first tray surface lies opposite the dispenser opening at a first distance and a second position, in which the tray surface lies opposite the dispenser opening at a second distance that is greater than the first.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20100043477Abstract: A refrigeration device is provided that includes a housing enclosing an interior and an ice reservoir, arranged in the interior, having an output opening and accommodating a stirrer. The ice reservoir can be pivoted between two positions that are different with respect to the height of the output opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Helen Lewis, Peter Nalbach, Craig Duncan Webster, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20100031691Abstract: A dispensing device for free-flowing or pourable products, in particular in a refrigeration device. Said dispensing device has a feed pipe for a pourable product, comprising an exit opening and a shut-off flap that is situated at the exit opening, and an outlet for the free-flowing product, said outlet being attached to the flap and displaceable with the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2006Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Marek Myszko, Peter Nalbach, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20100024461Abstract: A refrigeration device is provided that includes a housing enclosing an interior and an assembly in the interior having a storage compartment for chunks of ice and a stirrer. The stirrer is rotatable about an axis that extends through the storage compartment to move chunks of ice contained in the storage compartment in relation to each other and to move ice towards a dispensing passage that extends through the housing. A closable flap is interposed between the storage compartment and the dispensing passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Helen Lewis, Peter Nalbach, Martin Pünjer, Craig Duncan Webster, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20100025434Abstract: An ice dispenser including an ice supply container; a shaft extending into the supply container; a stirrer rotatable about the shaft which extends into the supply container, the stirrer being connectable to a rotation drive device that rotates the stirrer; an output chamber communicated with the supply container, the output chamber having an ice outlet opening; a slider rotatable in the output chamber, a rotation of the slider in a predetermined manner operating to bring the slider into moving engagement with ice located in the output chamber; and a coupling selectively disposable between an active coupling disposition in which the coupling operatively interconnects the stirrer and the slider to one another such that the slider rotates in correspondence with a rotation of the stirrer and a decoupling disposition in which the coupling does not operatively interconnect the stirrer and the slider to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Helen Lewis, Peter Nalbach, Craig Duncan Webster, Nathan Wrench, Kasim Yazan