Patents by Inventor Johannes Köpf

Johannes Köpf 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: 20230400243
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a housing, at least one hinge mounted on a front of the housing, and a door mounted on the hinge and thus mounted pivotably relative to the housing. The hinge has a bearing bracket fastened to an end face of the front with at least one fastening element. The bearing bracket is constructed symmetrically, so that it can be installed either on a left end face of the front or on a right end face of the front, and in both installation situations the door mounted on the bearing bracket is situated in the same position relative to the housing in the height direction and the width direction of the household appliance when in the closed state. A method for producing a household appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Florian Gerstmayr, Johannes Köpf, Alfred Raab, Christian Schmid
  • Publication number: 20230358083
    Abstract: A hinge element for a large domestic appliance contains a main body as well as a functional body which includes a plastic material. Accordingly, the main body and the functional body are connected to one another non-releasably. Ideally, a large domestic appliance, in particular a large domestic refrigerator, contains a housing in which a receiving space is formed. The domestic appliance has a closure element by which the receiving space can be closed, and the hinge element hingedly attaches the closure element to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Florian Gerstmayr, Johannes Köpf, Christian Schmid, Helmut Steichele
  • Publication number: 20200308887
    Abstract: A household refrigeration apparatus has a housing with a door that is pivotally mounted to the housing by a hinge. The hinge has a pivot and a separate base part, at which the pivot is rotatably supported around a rotational axis. A height adjusting device is formed at the hinge for adjusting the door in the height position in height direction relative to the housing. The pivot includes an annular coupling disk of the height adjusting device, which is coupled to a coupling receptacle formed in the base part. An individual height position of the pivot is adjusted depending on the rotational position of the coupling disk around the rotational axis relative to the coupling receptacle. The coupling disk has a coupling element with ramp-like oblique flanks on both sides, by which the coupling element axially plunges into the coupling receptacle in the direction of the rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: ALFRED RAAB, JOHANNES KOEPF, SIMON KRAEMER