Patents by Inventor Michael Rupp

Michael Rupp 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).

  • Patent number: 12251071
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher including a washing chamber, a sensor unit designed to detect a time curve of at least one sensor signal of a washing liquor and to output the detected time curve of the at least one sensor signal, a memory unit designed to store the time curve of the at least one sensor signal, an ascertaining unit designed to ascertain a temporal functional value based on the time curve of the at least one sensor signal, and a control device designed to carry out a washing program for washing washware in the washing chamber of the dishwasher and to carry out a specified action as a function of the temporal functional value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Heinle, Daniel Miller, Martin Rittner, Michael Rupp
  • Patent number: 12144478
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher including a receptacle for items to be washed, a control apparatus configured to execute a wash program in dependence upon a loading of the receptacle with items to be washed and a camera configured to capture an image of at least one partial region of the receptacle in dependence upon a pull-out position of the receptacle. The captured image is stored by the control apparatus in dependence upon the pull-out position in a memory location of a number of memory locations, which memory location is assigned to the pull-out position, with each of the number of memory locations being assigned a set of pull-out positions. An image analysis unit determines the loading of the receptacle in dependence upon images that are stored in the memory locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Rupp, Kai Paintner, Kuldeep Narayan Singh, Tobias Späth
  • Patent number: 12144480
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a controller for executing a washing program for washing a dirty item to be washed, and a receiving unit for receiving a sensor signal indicative of a dirt type adhering to the dirty item to be washed from a plurality of dirt types, with each of the dirt types being determined by a dirt parameter matrix, in which each position is assigned to a dirt parameter. A determining unit determines the dirt type adhering to the dirty item to be washed as a function of the received sensor signal, with the controller executing the washing program as a function of the determined dirt type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alfredo Calvimontes, Kai Paintner, Kuldeep Narayan Singh, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20240315527
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity, a door designed to close off or open the dishwasher cavity, a receptacle for an item to be washed, and a drive designed to move the receptacle in a deployment direction to at least partially open the door and/or a retraction direction to at least partially close the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron Friedke, Daniel Miller, Michael Rupp, Manuel Jörg
  • Publication number: 20240298869
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a washing items receptacle and a sensor unit which is designed to generate a sensor signal as a function of a change in position of the washing items receptacle and/or a force exerted on the washing items receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron Friedke, Daniel Miller, Michael Rupp, Manuel Jörg
  • Patent number: 12070174
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity, and a functional region embodied in one piece with the dishwasher cavity and processed by a laser processing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Oblinger, Michael Rupp
  • Patent number: 11944251
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a washing container having a floor, and a spray arm supported for rotation about an axis of rotation and including spray nozzles for applying washing liquor and/or fresh water to a dishwasher load received in the washing container. The spray arm is designed so as to be capable of being disassembled and re-assembled along the axis of rotation, in order to transfer the spray arm from a first mode, in which the spray nozzles point away from the floor, into a second mode, in which the spray nozzles point toward the floor, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Eisenbart, Michael Georg Rosenbauer, Michael Rupp, Aaron Friedke, Martin Stickel
  • Patent number: 11933500
    Abstract: A hob comprises a hob plate, heating devices therebelow and a flat, two-dimensional carrier plate for the heating devices which runs parallel to the hob plate and has an upper face, said carrier plate bearing the heating devices on said upper face and fixedly holding said heating devices in position. Holding means are provided on the upper face of the carrier plate for each heating device. Each heating device has at least one laterally protruding holding tab, wherein each holding tab has latching means and the holding means have counter latching means for a latching connection with these latching means. The latching connection has clearance in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the carrier plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: E.G.O. ELEKTRO-GERAETEBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Foeller, Konstantin Freis, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20240041296
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher having a dish rack to receive dishes. An image capturing device captures a 2D image of the dish rack of the dishwasher and the dishes, and an image processing device determines a 3D image based on the captured 2D image and additionally captured metadata of the captured 2D image. A control device executes a wash program as a function of the determined 3D image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Kai Paintner, Michael Rupp, Kuldeep Narayan Singh
  • Publication number: 20230389139
    Abstract: An induction cooktop comprising a cooktop plate and a planar and flat support structure has a flexible woven fabric as a support on which antennas and/or sensors are mounted as lines by means of embroidering processes. The antennas and/or sensors have feed lines, which are mounted and/or secured on the support by means of embroidering processes and cross one another and other lines on the same surface of the support, wherein they are electrically insulated from one another. The support structure has a thermal stability of ?200° C. It is arranged on a planar and flat retainer and, together with antennas and/or sensors, is pressed against an underside of the cooktop plate by said retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Christian Egenter, Ulrich Waechter, Max-Felix Mueller, Mathias Bellm, Michael Rupp
  • Patent number: 11805961
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity, a door attached pivotably to the dishwasher cavity, a door opening and closing device for automated opening and closing of the door, and a control unit designed to actuate the door opening and closing device. The control unit is designed to detect a motor current of a drive element of the door opening and closing device and to evaluate the detected motor current as to whether the door opening and closing device is functional or non-functional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Aaron Friedke, Martin Rittner, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20230292978
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher including a receptacle for items to be washed, a control apparatus configured to execute a wash program in dependence upon a loading of the receptacle with items to be washed and a camera configured to capture an image of at least one partial region of the receptacle in dependence upon a pull-out position of the receptacle. The captured image is stored by the control apparatus in dependence upon the pull-out position in a memory location of a number of memory locations, which memory location is assigned to the pull-out position, with each of the number of memory locations being assigned a set of pull-out positions. An image analysis unit determines the loading of the receptacle in dependence upon images that are stored in the memory locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Rupp, Kai Paintner, Kuldeep Narayan Singh, Tobias Späth
  • Patent number: 11757447
    Abstract: A sensor element device for an operating device having a luminous display comprises a sensor element for a capacitive touch switch, a light guide for the luminous display, having an input region and an emission region, and light-nontransmissive shielding material which encloses the light guide except for the input region and the emission region. It furthermore comprises a lower side and an upper side, as well as at least one metallic sensor element. The sensor element extends from the lower side to the upper side. The sensor element device forms an integrated module with the light guide, shielding material and sensor element. The sensor element projects as far as a plane of the lower side. No part of the sensor element device protrudes downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Rupp, Dennis Schmid, Siegbert Wein
  • Publication number: 20230190071
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher having a receptacle for items to be washed, an image capturing facility configured to capture an image of the receptacle of the dishwasher for items to be washed, and an image processing facility configured to determine in dependence upon the captured image a map of an arrangement of the items to be washed. The map includes a division of the receptacle into a number of regions, with each region having a predetermined arrangement of items to be washed from a number of predetermined arrangements of items to be washed. An allocation unit determines a cleaning matrix including an allocation of a treatment specification to each of the regions in the map, and outputs the cleaning matrix. A control apparatus executes a wash program based on the cleaning matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kuldeep Narayan Singh, Kai Paintner, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20230180992
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher including a washing chamber, a sensor unit designed to detect a time curve of at least one sensor signal of a washing liquor and to output the detected time curve of the at least one sensor signal, a memory unit designed to store the time curve of the at least one sensor signal, an ascertaining unit designed to ascertain a temporal functional value based on the time curve of the at least one sensor signal, and a control device designed to carry out a washing program for washing washware in the washing chamber of the dishwasher and to carry out a specified action as a function of the temporal functional value..
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Heinle, Daniel Miller, Martin Rittner, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20230165427
    Abstract: A computer program product for a robot which includes a computer for operating a household dishwasher having a plurality of treatment programs is disclosed. The computer program product includes a non-transitory computer readable medium having commands which when the computer program product is run by the computer prompt the robot to carry out the steps of loading dishwasher skills which are specific to the household dishwasher from a storage device, and carrying out at least some of the loaded dishwasher skills in order to operate the household dishwasher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Kai Paintner, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20230082503
    Abstract: A system includes a dishwasher including a receptacle for an item to be washed, and a control device for carrying out a washing program, which can be parameterized by a number of different washing program parameters. An image-capturing device captures an image of the receptacle and an image analysis unit classifies the item to be washed in the receptacle in dependence on the captured image of the receptacle and to output a classification result to the control device. The control device is designed to parameterize the washing program depending on the classification result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Rupp, Kai Paintner, Kuldeep Narayan Singh
  • Publication number: 20230035793
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity, and a functional region embodied in one piece with the dishwasher cavity and processed by a laser processing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Anton Oblinger, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20230036605
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a controller for executing a washing program for washing a dirty item to be washed, and a receiving unit for receiving a sensor signal indicative of a dirt type adhering to the dirty item to be washed from a plurality of dirt types, with each of the dirt types being determined by a dirt parameter matrix, in which each position is assigned to a dirt parameter. A determining unit determines the dirt type adhering to the dirty item to be washed as a function of the received sensor signal, with the controller executing the washing program as a function of the determined dirt type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Alfredo Calvimontes, Kai Paintner, Kuldeep Narayan Singh, Michael Rupp
  • Publication number: 20220322911
    Abstract: A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity, a door attached pivotably to the dishwasher cavity, a door opening and closing device for automated opening and closing of the door, and a control unit designed to actuate the door opening and closing device. The control unit is designed to detect a motor current of a drive element of the door opening and closing device and to evaluate the detected motor current as to whether the door opening and closing device is functional or non-functional.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Friedke, Martin Rittner, Michael Rupp