Patents by Inventor Peter Nalbach
Peter Nalbach 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: 20100043476Abstract: A cooling device is provided having three storage zones that are insulated from each other and cooled via evaporators through which a coolant flows. A first coolant circuit extends through a first and a second of the three storage zones and a second coolant circuit positioned parallel to the first coolant circuit extends through the first and the third of the storage zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2008Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Wolfgang Becker, Adolf Feinauer, Helmut Konopa, Peter Nalbach, Wolfgang Nuiding, Berthold Pflomm, Simon Schechinger
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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
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Publication number: 20100011797Abstract: An ice reservoir container for a refrigerator is provided and includes a reservoir chamber which has a base that slopes along a first vertical section plane towards an outlet opening. The gradient of the base decreases along the section plane as the distance from the outlet opening increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE 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: 20090320511Abstract: An ice dispenser including a storage compartment for ice cubes having a dispensing opening through which ice cubes can exit; and a slider movable over the dispensing opening along a predefined path, the slider including a first set of fingers and a module having a second set of fingers, with the first set of fingers being formed with at least two axially interspaced fingers delimiting therebetween an intermediate space, and during movement of the slider on the predefined path, a finger of the second set of fingers passes through the intermediate space, the module of the slider being movable between a partial covering position in which the module partially covers the dispensing opening and a release position in which the module does not cover the dispensing opening to the same extent as it covers the dispensing opening in its partial covering position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20090320512Abstract: A refrigerator including a water tank having an inlet connection and an outlet connection in fluid communication with a water dispenser wherein the water tank includes a mixing area and a laminar flow area connected in series with the mixing area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: 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: 20090320510Abstract: A domestic appliance has a water conduit, in which a replaceable water filter and a valve are arranged, and a monitoring unit for calculating a value which is representative of the degree of wear of the water filter, which monitoring unit in each case increments the representative value by a given step width with a first delay after the valve is opened and, while the valve is open, at a time interval which is longer than the delay.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2006Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventor: Peter Nalbach
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Publication number: 20090311507Abstract: A thermal insulation material comprising a porous substrate made of a synthetic resin composition to which particles are applied that essentially have the shape of small plates. The average diameter of the particles can range from 0.1 times to 10 times the average diameter of the pores.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Peter Bauer, Erich Hell, Peter Nalbach
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Publication number: 20090308493Abstract: 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 at least one first tray surface for a tray part, which supports a container that is to be filled from the dispenser opening. The tray part can be controllably displaced in the recess 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 at least one tray surface lies opposite the dispenser opening at a second distance that is greater than the first.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2006Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: 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: 20090303695Abstract: A display element comprising a light-emitting diode and a display field that is backlit by the light-emitting diode. In said element, the beam path of the light in the display element passes through at least two light scattering elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20090293528Abstract: A refrigerator comprising a water conduit that is equipped with a socket for an exchangeable water filter and a monitoring unit for detecting the water throughput through the water conduit, said unit generating an alarm if the water throughput exceeds a threshold value. The monitoring unit can be deactivated if a water filter is mounted in the socket.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Hans Ihle, Andreas Kempte, Peter Nalbach, Michael Roth
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Publication number: 20090282856Abstract: A dispensing device (4) for a free-flowing or pourable refrigerated product is situated on the front face (2) of the housing (1, 2) of a refrigeration device. A sleeve (8), through which the dispensing device (4) is accessed, protrudes beyond the front face (2) and is surrounded by a peripheral frame (9) that protrudes beyond the sleeve (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2006Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20090277823Abstract: A refrigeration device comprising an internal water conduit that contains a mounting site for an exchangeable water filter and at least one valve situated downstream of said filter, for controlling the water flow through the conduit. A chemically inert particle filter can be fitted to the mounting site.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2006Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Haugerate GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Hans Ihle, Peter Nalbach
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Publication number: 20090249814Abstract: An ice maker for a domestic appliance comprises an ice tray, a water feed line which can be used to fill the ice tray with water, a water filter which is arranged in the water feed line such that it can be replaced, and a monitoring unit for calculating a value which is representative of the degree of wear of the filter. The monitoring unit has means for changing the representative value by a first fixed step width each time the ice tray is filled.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2006Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Georg Hausmann, Peter Nalbach
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Publication number: 20090193834Abstract: A refrigeration appliance with a water tank having an interior with an inlet connection and an outlet connection connected to a water dispenser, the water tank being divided by at least a first fin disposed in the tank interior and dividing the interior into at least two sections through which the contents of the tank flow from the inlet connection to the outlet connection, with the at least two sections merging into one another at a free edge of the fin, with the at least one fin being formed with a through-opening formed a predetermined distance from the free edge and connecting the at least two sections, the cross-sectional dimension of the through-opening being smaller than the cross-sectional dimension of the at least two sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2006Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Marek Myszko, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20090159154Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2006Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan
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Publication number: 20090071184Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: 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: 20090044562Abstract: A door for a refrigerator comprises a door leaf and a dispensing unit for water and/or ice, this unit being introduced into the door leaf, as well as a supply channel, which runs from one edge of the door leaf to the dispensing unit. The supply channel has a groove which is recessed into the door leaf and extends between adjacent corners of the door leaf.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2006Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE GMBHInventors: Martin Buchstab, Irene Dumkow, Adolf Feinauer, Klaus Flinner, Bernd Heger, Peter Nalbach, Kasim Yazan