Patents by Inventor Norbert Fox

Norbert Fox 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: 7197367
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a household appliance including at least one control element and at least one display element, the control element(s) being able to be used to select programs of which, in each case, at least one program parameter is settable via the control element(s), and further including a program control including a data processing means and a data memory; the control and display elements as well as the data memory being in data communication with the data processing means. In order to improve clarity and to allow user-modified programs to be called up repeatedly, a setting of the program parameter(s) is assigned to a user identification, storable under this user identification, and able to be called up by the selection of a program made via the control element(s) (6, 10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Miele & Cie. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Brinkemper, Michael Buehlmeyer, Norbert Fox, Uwe Hahn, Tobias Heidemann, Joerg Nattkemper, Detlef Niehaus, Margit Pohlueke
  • Publication number: 20050016385
    Abstract: A household appliance includes at least one display element, at least one control element, and a program control module. The control element can: set and select a number of user identifications; set a first program parameter setting for a first program sequence of a first program and for a second program sequence of a second program; assign the first program parameter setting to a first user identification; store the first program parameter setting under the first user identification; select, under the first user identification, the first program and thereby retrieve the first program parameter setting; and select, under the first user identification, the second program and thereby retrieve the first program parameter setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Klaus Brinkemper, Michael Buehlmeyer, Norbert Fox, Uwe Hahn, Tobias Heidemann, Joerg Nattkemper, Detlef Niehaus, Margit Pohlueke