Patents by Inventor Ralf Spiller

Ralf Spiller 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: 11029082
    Abstract: A household appliance apparatus, in particular a household refrigeration appliance apparatus, has at least one supporting unit for contacting with a supporting surface, and with a housing base unit which has a first base portion and at least one second base portion which define an intermediate space in at least one region. Accordingly, the supporting unit is arranged at least partially in the intermediate space and thus a reduced installation space relative to the supporting unit is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Ralf Spiller, Michael Krapp, Markus Mayer
  • Patent number: 10823493
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a body and a receiving chamber located in the body and at least partially delimited by a wall element. A holding part is disposed on a face of the wall element facing away from the receiving chamber, is coupled to an alignment contour provided on the wall element and extends over the alignment contour in a plane encompassing the wall element. The alignment contour has a projection facing away from the receiving chamber and being elongated in the plane encompassing the wall element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Ralf Spiller, Roland Kuemmel
  • Patent number: 10495372
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a box body having a storage compartment and a beam spanning a front end of the box body. The beam includes a front housing, a rear housing and a heat-insulation material located in a chamber delimited by the front housing together with the rear housing. A cover is located in the storage compartment. A hanging hook is configured to hang and connect a front end of the cover. The hanging hook includes an installation portion to be inserted into the beam in a forward and backward direction. The hanging hook and the beam can be conveniently installed in and removed from the refrigerator, and if the hanging hook is damaged, only the hanging hook needs to be replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Jinghui Chen, Wuba Lei, Ralf Spiller, Gang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10473262
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance has a housing in which at least one receiving area for food is implemented. At least one roller is arranged on the housing and by which the household refrigeration appliance can be rolled on an underlying surface. The roller is arranged rotatably mounted on a plate-like, separate bearing bracket and a roller assembly containing the roller and the bearing bracket is arranged non-destructively releasably on a base of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Ralf Spiller, Michael Krapp
  • Publication number: 20190301790
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a body and a receiving chamber located in the body and at least partially delimited by a wall element. A holding part is disposed on a face of the wall element facing away from the receiving chamber, is coupled to an alignment contour provided on the wall element and extends over the alignment contour in a plane encompassing the wall element. The alignment contour has a projection facing away from the receiving chamber and being elongated in the plane encompassing the wall element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: ANDREAS LINDEL, RALF SPILLER, ROLAND KUEMMEL
  • Patent number: 10365035
    Abstract: A domestic refrigeration appliance includes a housing in which an inner container is disposed. The inner container has walls delimiting a receiving chamber for food. A bearing rib for supporting a separating plate is formed or molded on a side wall of the inner container. An electrical part disposed on the front face of the bearing rib extends through a passage in the front face and projects into the receiving chamber. A method for producing a domestic refrigeration appliance is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindel, Ralf Spiller, Claudia Weiss, Felix Wiedenmann
  • Publication number: 20190226753
    Abstract: A household appliance apparatus, in particular a household refrigeration appliance apparatus, has at least one supporting unit for contacting with a supporting surface, and with a housing base unit which has a first base portion and at least one second base portion which define an intermediate space in at least one region. Accordingly, the supporting unit is arranged at least partially in the intermediate space and thus a reduced installation space relative to the supporting unit is needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: ANDREAS LINDEL, RALF SPILLER, MICHAEL KRAPP, MARKUS MAYER
  • Publication number: 20180274849
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a box body having a storage compartment and a beam spanning a front end of the box body. The beam includes a front housing, a rear housing and a heat-insulation material located in a chamber delimited by the front housing together with the rear housing. A cover is located in the storage compartment. A hanging hook is configured to hang and connect a front end of the cover. The hanging hook includes an installation portion to be inserted into the beam in a forward and backward direction. The hanging hook and the beam can be conveniently installed in and removed from the refrigerator, and if the hanging hook is damaged, only the hanging hook needs to be replaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: JINGHUI CHEN, WUBA LEI, RALF SPILLER, GANG ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20180156380
    Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance has a housing in which at least one receiving area for food is implemented. At least one roller is arranged on the housing and by which the household refrigeration appliance can be rolled on an underlying surface. The roller is arranged rotatably mounted on a plate-like, separate bearing bracket and a roller assembly containing the roller and the bearing bracket is arranged non-destructively releasably on a base of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: ANDREAS LINDEL, RALF SPILLER, MICHAEL KRAPP
  • Publication number: 20180112912
    Abstract: A domestic refrigeration appliance includes a housing in which an inner container is disposed. The inner container has walls delimiting a receiving chamber for food. A bearing rib for supporting a separating plate is formed or molded on a side wall of the inner container. An electrical part disposed on the front face of the bearing rib extends through a passage in the front face and projects into the receiving chamber. A method for producing a domestic refrigeration appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: ANDREAS LINDEL, RALF SPILLER, CLAUDIA WEISS, FELIX WIEDENMANN
  • Patent number: 9016085
    Abstract: The invention relates to a refrigerating appliance having an evaporator area and at least two cooling areas partitioned off from one another inside the housing of the refrigerating appliance. A wall has a solid inner skin, a solid outer skin and a layer made of expanded insulating material located between the inner and outer skin. A cold air supply channel in the wall extends from the evaporator area past the first cooling area to the second cooling area. A shaped part made of an insulating material extends between the cold air supply channel and the inner skin of the wall. The cold air supply channel is separated from the expanded insulating material by a partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Ralf Spiller
  • Patent number: 8840204
    Abstract: A refrigerating appliance door having an inner wall and an outer wall interconnected along their longitudinal edges. A window is cut out of an edge of at least the outer wall in which at least one display element can be viewed when the door is shut. The display element is mounted on an operating screen which is fixed to a front upper edge of the refrigerating appliance body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Bauer, Christoph Becke, Alexander Goerz, Hans-Reinhart Janssen, Ralf Spiller
  • Patent number: 8051673
    Abstract: A circulating air refrigerating appliance surrounds at least one storage region and an evaporation chamber containing an evaporator. The evaporator engages with projections extending from an inner wall of the housing defining the evaporation chamber. A separating wall between the storage region and the evaporation chamber is mounted adjacently to the evaporator in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Spiller
  • Patent number: 8037706
    Abstract: A refrigeration device, in particular a no-frost device, refrigerator and/or freezer, comprising a thermally insulating housing containing at least one product storage compartment that can be supplied with cold air by a fan and an evaporator chamber that holds an evaporator. According to the invention, the evaporator chamber is thermally separated from the storage compartment by a partition. The device also comprises an electronic control system for controlling the refrigeration device and at least one light source for illuminating the storage compartment. The evaporator, the partition and the electronic control system and/or the evaporator, the partition and the light source are provided in the form of modules. The refrigeration device is characterized in that it is particularly reliable, works efficiently, can be cost-effectively produced and is easy to service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Renate Pradel, Ralf Spiller
  • Patent number: 7870756
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes an evaporator zone and a cooling zone separated from each other in a refrigerator housing. A fan drives a cold air flow from the evaporator zone into the cooling zone via a central inlet port that is arranged next to a heat-insulating partition located between the evaporator zone and the cooling zone. A distributing device that diverts a partial air flow into a distributor pipe that extends along a wall of the cooling zone is mounted upstream of the central inlet port in the direction of flow of the cold air. The distributor pipe is provided with holes that are distributed along the height of the wall and extend into the cooling zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle, Ralf Spiller
  • Publication number: 20100031684
    Abstract: A circulating air refrigerating appliance surrounds at least one storage region and an evaporation chamber containing an evaporator. The evaporator engages with projections extending from an inner wall of the housing defining the evaporation chamber. A separating wall between the storage region and the evaporation chamber is mounted adjacently to the evaporator in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Spiller
  • Patent number: 7651181
    Abstract: A refrigerator door including an outer wall and an inner wall interconnected along longitudinal edges thereof and including a closing element fixed on an upper horizontal edge of the outer and inner walls. The interconnected closing element and the outer and inner walls delimit an insulating inner space therebetween. At the upper edges the outer wall is longer than the inner wall with the closing element bridging the difference in length between the walls. The resulting structure forming a space for a control panel covered by the outer wall when the refrigerator door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Bauer, Christoph Becke, Alexander Goerz, Hans-Reinhart Janssen, Ralf Spiller
  • Publication number: 20090314026
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooled goods apparatus with cool circulating air and having a cooling compartment for receiving the goods to be cooled, a duct for cooling air and, a low temperature generator for generating cooling air. The low temperature generator is in fluid communication with the cooling compartment via the duct that leads into the cooling compartment via an outlet opening. A jet forming means is formed by a nozzle element and/or a spacer that is arranged at the outlet opening and that keeps the goods to be cooled at a distance from the outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle, Matthew Ricket, Ralf Spiller, Martin Wagner
  • Publication number: 20090133425
    Abstract: A refrigeration device, in particular a no-frost device, refrigerator and/or freezer, comprising a thermally insulating housing containing at least one product storage compartment that can be supplied with cold air by a fan and an evaporator chamber that holds an evaporator. According to the invention, the evaporator chamber is thermally separated from the storage compartment by a partition. The device also comprises an electronic control system for controlling the refrigeration device and at least one light source for illuminating the storage compartment. The evaporator, the partition and the electronic control system and/or the evaporator, the partition and the light source are provided in the form of modules. The refrigeration device is characterised in that it is particularly reliable, works efficiently, can be cost-effectively produced and is easy to service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Goerz, Renate Pradel, Ralf Spiller
  • Publication number: 20090064706
    Abstract: The invention relates to a refrigerating appliance having an evaporator area and at least two cooling areas partitioned off from one another inside the housing of the refrigerating appliance. A wall has a solid inner skin, a solid outer skin and a layer made of expanded insulating material located between the inner and outer skin. A cold air supply channel in the wall extends from the evaporator area past the first cooling area to the second cooling area. A shaped part made of an insulating material extends between the cold air supply channel and the inner skin of the wall. The cold air supply channel is separated from the expanded insulating material by a partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Ralf Spiller