Patents by Inventor Martin Brabec
Martin Brabec 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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Publication number: 20210199370Abstract: An edge protection module for attachment to an outer edge of a shelf of a domestic refrigerator, includes a metallic carrier strip having a strip axis, a lighting rod which is mounted on the carrier strip and extends along the strip axis and which has two axially opposite rod ends and a row of lighting elements, which are arranged in an axially distributed manner, and two connection points in electrical connection with the row of lighting elements, which connection points are arranged axially on both sides of the row of lighting elements in a defined axial position relative to the carrier strip and are accessible from outside the edge protection module, where at least one of the connection points is part of a contacting unit which is structurally separate from the lighting rod and is mounted on the carrier strip at an axial distance from the lighting rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Johann Schenkl, Martin Brabec, Markus Rauch, Matthias Wallner
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Patent number: 10962231Abstract: A pyrolytic oven comprises a housing and a muffle delimiting a cooking chamber inside the housing. A lighting module serves to illuminate the cooking chamber, wherein the lighting module has a cooling structure with an arrangement of cooling extensions formed in particular as pins or ribs, which project into a gap between housing and muffle and have a convection effect in a cooking mode of the oven. A fan device of the oven is configured and controlled to generate an air flow encountering the cooling structure in the gap in a pyrolytic mode of the oven. The cooling structure of the lighting module further has a wall formation, which in pyrolytic mode generates a wind shadow relative to the air flow for a number of cooling extensions of the cooling structure arranged distributed in a transverse plane to the flow direction of the air flow.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Johann Schenkl, Martin Brabec
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Patent number: 10928057Abstract: A domestic cooling device has a cold chamber delimited by walls, and at least one lighting module fitted into a wall opening of a delimiting wall of the cold chamber. The lighting module includes a light outlet pane, a light source arrangement having at least one light-emitting diode, a reflector body which reflects light in the direction towards the light outlet pane, which light reflection surface is irradiated by each light-emitting diode of the light source arrangement, and a frame part which is produced separately from the reflector body and protrudes from the delimiting wall on the side thereof facing towards the cold chamber, which frame part forms a visible surface which extends all around the light outlet pane and is exposed towards the cold chamber. The frame part is a surface-coated plastics component which is held in place by engaging the underside of the light outlet pane.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Martin Brabec, Manfredi Signorino, Georg Wilhelm
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Patent number: 10928018Abstract: A light bar includes an arrangement of several light elements reciprocally spaced behind one another in the longitudinal bar direction where each light element produces a light beam, a reflection surface formed on a light-impermeable reflector body and producing a diffuse scattering effect where a first portion of the light beam of each light element is directed at the reflection surface, a light-permeable window element at which light produced by the light elements exits the light bar. A second portion of the light beam that is different from the first portion is directed past the reflection surface onto the light exit window. The light radiated by the light bar is composed of a direct light proportion and a scattered light proportion, the relative ratio of which in a suitable configuration of the reflector body and the window element can be different in different radiation directions of the light bar.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Johann Schenkl
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Patent number: 10775100Abstract: A domestic cooling device includes an insulating wall, a cold chamber adjoining the insulating wall, and a wall light arranged on the insulating wall. The wall light includes at least one light source, a window element which forms a transparent window region, and a reflection surface that is arranged in front of the window element in the propagation path of at least a portion of the light radiation coming from the light source. The insulating wall includes an inner lining part adjoining the cold chamber and an insulating foam material arranged behind the inner lining part. An opening is formed in the inner lining part, at least a portion of the reflection surface being arranged within the contour of the opening. At least a portion of the reflection surface is formed by a cover part that covers the opening and with which the insulating foam material is in contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Inventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Franz Forster
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Patent number: 10739065Abstract: A domestic refrigerator has a cold chamber delimited by walls, and a lighting module inserted into a wall opening of a delimiting wall of the cold chamber. The lighting module has a planar, transparent light outlet pane arranged parallel to the delimiting wall, a frame inserted into the wall opening, at least one light-emitting diode which, in a projection perpendicular to the pane plane of the light outlet pane, is arranged so that it is concealed, and a light reflection surface, arranged behind the light outlet pane and irradiated by the light-emitting diode where the light reflection surface, in a region that is visible through the light outlet pane when viewed perpendicularly to the pane plane, has all over a roughness depth Rz of between 2.5 ?m and 8.0 ?m and an arithmetical mean roughness value Ra of between 0.63 ?m and 2.4 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Johann Schenkl, Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Georg Wilhelm
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Patent number: 10724732Abstract: A lighting device for lighting an interior of a domestic electrical appliance is configured to be operated in different lighting modes which differ from one another by the spectral composition of the light of the lighting device delivered into the appliance interior. In some embodiments, the lighting device comprises two light-emitting diodes which differ from one another in terms of the spectral content of the light delivered thereby. The different lighting modes of the lighting device differ from one another by a different operating combination of the light-emitting diodes. By varying the duty cycle and the pulse frequency of a pulse-width-modulated control signal, a control assembly is able to transmit two different pieces of control information to the lighting module in order to control the two light-emitting diodes individually.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Inventors: Johann Schenkl, Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Moritz Laubscher
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Patent number: 10724789Abstract: A shelf for a domestic cooling device has a base plate with an edge face, an edge strip extending along the edge face of the base plate where the edge strip has a strip body covering the edge face, and at least one light source element where the strip body forms a light reflection surface which is arranged in a propagation path of the light of the at least one light source element and has a diffuse reflecting effect for at least a portion of the light that is incident thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Inventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Johann Schenkl
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Patent number: 10663159Abstract: A lighting device for fitting into a wall surface of a domestic electrical appliance, in particular a refrigerator or/and freezer, includes a window pane for the emergence of light, a light source arrangement having at least one light-emitting diode, and a light reflection surface, arranged behind the window pane and irradiated by the light-emitting diode, for reflecting light in the direction towards the window pane. The light reflection surface has regions of different reflection behaviour, where in some embodiments the light reflection surface is divided into a glossy region closer to the light-emitting diode(s) and a scattering region further away from the light-emitting diode(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec
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Patent number: 10655863Abstract: A luminaire for a domestic electric appliance has a light source, a light-guiding body for guiding light emitted by the light source, and a light-permeable window element having a light inlet surface, at which light delivered by the light-guiding body is incident on the window element, and a light outlet surface, at which incident light emerges from the window element after passing through the window element. The light inlet surface has a shape curved in the manner of an arc, which differs from a plane surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Inventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec
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Domestic refrigeration device, and method of controlling a light source arrangement arranged therein
Patent number: 10641545Abstract: A domestic refrigeration device comprises an interior for storing foods, a light source arrangement which is configured to emit light, in particular white light, of different spectral characteristics into the interior, and a sensor unit which is configured to optically detect light emitted by the lit interior, to allocate to the detected light a value that is characteristic of the color of the emitted light, and to control the light source arrangement in such a manner that light of a specific spectral characteristic, which is dependent on the value that is characteristic of the color, is emitted.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Daniel Sygnat, Johann Schenkl -
Publication number: 20200018451Abstract: A light bar includes an arrangement of several light elements reciprocally spaced behind one another in the longitudinal bar direction where each light element produces a light beam, a reflection surface formed on a light-impermeable reflector body and producing a diffuse scattering effect where a first portion of the light beam of each light element is directed at the reflection surface, a light-permeable window element at which light produced by the light elements exits the light bar. A second portion of the light beam that is different from the first portion is directed past the reflection surface onto the light exit window. The light radiated by the light bar is composed of a direct light proportion and a scattered light proportion, the relative ratio of which in a suitable configuration of the reflector body and the window element can be different in different radiation directions of the light bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Johann Schenkl
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Patent number: 10508815Abstract: A domestic oven includes a muffle which delimits a cooking chamber, and a lighting device for illuminating the cooking chamber. The muffle has in a muffle side wall a light outlet window into which a window element having a light outlet surface is fitted. The lighting device includes a light source which, when viewed normally to the muffle side wall, is arranged outside the contour of the light outlet window, a reflective surface with a diffuse reflecting property which is arranged behind the light outlet surface within the contour of the light outlet window and is irradiated with light from the light source, and a lens element with a collecting property which is arranged in the light path between the light source and the reflective surface. In some embodiments, the lens element is also arranged outside the contour of the light outlet window.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Johann Schenkl, Martin Brabec
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Publication number: 20190339003Abstract: A domestic cooling device includes an insulating wall, a cold chamber adjoining the insulating wall, and a wall light arranged on the insulating wall. The wall light includes at least one light source, a window element which forms a transparent window region, and a reflection surface that is arranged in front of the window element in the propagation path of at least a portion of the light radiation coming from the light source. The insulating wall includes an inner lining part adjoining the cold chamber and an insulating foam material arranged behind the inner lining part. An opening is formed in the inner lining part, at least a portion of the reflection surface being arranged within the contour of the opening. At least a portion of the reflection surface is formed by a cover part that covers the opening and with which the insulating foam material is in contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Franz Forster
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Publication number: 20190339004Abstract: A domestic cooling device has a cold chamber and a wall light arranged on a delimiting wall of the cold chamber for illuminating the cold chamber. The wall light includes at least one light source and a window region manufactured from a transparent material, through which the light generated by the wall light emerges into the cold chamber. There is a reflection surface, in particular having a diffusely reflecting action, which is arranged in front of the window region in the propagation path of at least a portion of the light radiation coming from the light source. At least a portion of the reflection surface is formed by the delimiting wall, in particular by an inner lining part of the cooling device. The reflection surface can be formed in a hollow in the inner lining part. The window region extends over at least a portion of the hollow.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Franz Forster
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Publication number: 20190301792Abstract: A shelf for a domestic cooling device has a base plate with an edge face, an edge strip extending along the edge face of the base plate where the edge strip has a strip body covering the edge face, and at least one light source element where the strip body forms a light reflection surface which is arranged in a propagation path of the light of the at least one light source element and has a diffuse reflecting effect for at least a portion of the light that is incident thereonType: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Johann Schenkl
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Publication number: 20190242570Abstract: A domestic cooling device has a cold chamber delimited by walls, and at least one lighting module fitted into a wall opening of a delimiting wall of the cold chamber. The lighting module includes a light outlet pane, a light source arrangement having at least one light-emitting diode, a reflector body which reflects light in the direction towards the light outlet pane, which light reflection surface is irradiated by each light-emitting diode of the light source arrangement, and a frame part which is produced separately from the reflector body and protrudes from the delimiting wall on the side thereof facing towards the cold chamber, which frame part forms a visible surface which extends all around the light outlet pane and is exposed towards the cold chamber. The frame part is a surface-coated plastics component which is held in place by engaging the underside of the light outlet pane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Martin Brabec, Manfredi Signorino, Georg Wilhelm
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Publication number: 20190195553Abstract: A domestic refrigerator has a cold chamber delimited by walls, and a lighting module inserted into a wall opening of a delimiting wall of the cold chamber. The lighting module has a planar, transparent light outlet pane arranged parallel to the delimiting wall, a frame inserted into the wall opening, at least one light-emitting diode which, in a projection perpendicular to the pane plane of the light outlet pane, is arranged so that it is concealed, and a light reflection surface, arranged behind the light outlet pane and irradiated by the light-emitting diode where the light reflection surface, in a region that is visible through the light outlet pane when viewed perpendicularly to the pane plane, has all over a roughness depth Rz of between 2.5 ?m and 8.0 ?m and an arithmetical mean roughness value Ra of between 0.63 ?m and 2.4 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Johann Schenkl, Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Georg Wilhelm
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Domestic refrigeration device, and method of controlling a light source arrangement arranged therein
Publication number: 20190170432Abstract: A domestic refrigeration device comprises an interior for storing foods, a light source arrangement which is configured to emit light, in particular white light, of different spectral characteristics into the interior, and a sensor unit which is configured to optically detect light emitted by the lit interior, to allocate to the detected light a value that is characteristic of the color of the emitted light, and to control the light source arrangement in such a manner that light of a specific spectral characteristic, which is dependent on the value that is characteristic of the color, is emitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Daniel Sygnat, Johann Schenkl -
Publication number: 20190137092Abstract: A lighting device for lighting an interior of a domestic electrical appliance is configured to be operated in different lighting modes which differ from one another by the spectral composition of the light of the lighting device delivered into the appliance interior. In some embodiments, the lighting device comprises two light-emitting diodes which differ from one another in terms of the spectral content of the light delivered thereby. The different lighting modes of the lighting device differ from one another by a different operating combination of the light-emitting diodes. By varying the duty cycle and the pulse frequency of a pulse-width-modulated control signal, a control assembly is able to transmit two different pieces of control information to the lighting module in order to control the two light-emitting diodes individually.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Johann Schenkl, Manfredi Signorino, Martin Brabec, Moritz Laubscher