Patents by Inventor Robert Parchman

Robert Parchman 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: 11747087
    Abstract: Household appliances may include partially reflective (e.g., one-way mirror) glass as part of an oven door. The partially reflective glass may transmit light from an interior of the household appliance and may reflect light from outside the household appliance. Accordingly, one can see into the lighted interior but a camera inside the interior cannot see out through the door. In some examples, the household appliance includes a lamp and a camera disposed within the cavity of the appliance. The lamp and the camera are interlocked to protect user privacy by activating the one-way feature of the door glass as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: John Gibson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Patent number: 11499722
    Abstract: A household cooking appliance includes a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening and an oven door covering the opening and moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The oven door includes an inner surface that faces the oven chamber and is directly exposed to heating of the oven chamber when the door is in the closed position. The inner surface of the oven door includes a camera configured to capture video of an interior of the oven chamber before, during, or after a cooking operation without violating privacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Publication number: 20220214111
    Abstract: Household appliances may include partially reflective (e.g., one-way mirror) glass as part of an oven door. The partially reflective glass may transmit light from an interior of the household appliance and may reflect light from outside the household appliance. Accordingly, one can see into the lighted interior but a camera inside the interior cannot see out through the door. In some examples, the household appliance includes a lamp and a camera disposed within the cavity of the appliance. The lamp and the camera are interlocked to protect user privacy by activating the one-way feature of the door glass as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: John Gibson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Publication number: 20220214047
    Abstract: A household cooking appliance having a high temperature pyrolytic cleaning cycle includes a non-welded oven cavity accessible through an opening. The non-welded oven cavity includes a plurality of panels mechanically coupled together without welding and at least one seal disposed between the mechanically coupled panels of the plurality of panels for allowing pyrolytic cleaning of the non-welded oven cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman, Norman Sewell
  • Publication number: 20210341152
    Abstract: A household cooking appliance includes a housing having an oven chamber accessible through an opening and an oven door covering the opening and moveable about a hinge between an open position and a closed position. The oven door includes an inner surface that faces the oven chamber and is directly exposed to heating of the oven chamber when the door is in the closed position. The inner surface of the oven door includes a camera configured to capture video of an interior of the oven chamber before, during, or after a cooking operation without violating privacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Patent number: 11149485
    Abstract: A cooking appliance may have side-by-side, outwardly-opening doors. The doors may be operatively coupled to each other such that they rotate together and also translate together into respective storage slots on either side of an appliance cavity. Translation into the storage slots may include guiding respective roller carriages of the doors along tracks in the storage slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman, Stephen Somogy
  • Patent number: 11060737
    Abstract: A convection system in a home cooking appliance, including: an oven cavity defined by a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of opposed side walls, a rear wall, and a front opening closable by an oven door; at least one heating source configured to heat the oven cavity; and a convection air channel that passes along the top wall of the oven cavity and then down along the rear wall of the oven cavity, the convection air channel having at least one inlet in the top wall of the oven cavity, at least one outlet configured to communicate with the oven cavity, and a fan disposed within the convection air channel at a location outside of the oven cavity. The convection air channel is devoid of an additional heating source that is separate from and in addition to the at least one heating source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Patent number: 11035576
    Abstract: An appliance may include an appliance door configured to selectively open and close a cavity of the appliance. The door may be side-opening and retractable into a door storage space situated laterally adjacent to the appliance cavity. The door may be arrested in alignment with a track in the door storage space by an abutment portion of the door, and transitioned into the door storage space on rollers engaged with a track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Publication number: 20210160972
    Abstract: A home appliance, in particular a home cooking appliance, includes a home appliance cavity used as a cooking cavity. The home appliance cavity includes a substrate that is a fibrous matrix and an inorganic resin that is thermally resistant. In certain examples, the home appliance cavity is a single unit construction, eliminating assembly seams. Also described herein are methods of making the home appliance cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Publication number: 20200408421
    Abstract: An appliance may include an appliance door configured to selectively open and close a cavity of the appliance. The door may be side-opening and retractable into a door storage space situated laterally adjacent to the appliance cavity. The door may be arrested in alignment with a track in the door storage space by an abutment portion of the door, and transitioned into the door storage space on rollers engaged with a track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman
  • Publication number: 20200408018
    Abstract: A cooking appliance may have side-by-side, outwardly-opening doors. The doors may be operatively coupled to each other such that they rotate together and also translate together into respective storage slots on either side of an appliance cavity. Translation into the storage slots may include guiding respective roller carriages of the doors along tracks in the storage slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman, Stephen Somogy
  • Publication number: 20200182483
    Abstract: A convection system in a home cooking appliance, including: an oven cavity defined by a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of opposed side walls, a rear wall, and a front opening closable by an oven door; at least one heating source configured to heat the oven cavity; and a convection air channel that passes along the top wall of the oven cavity and then down along the rear wall of the oven cavity, the convection air channel having at least one inlet in the top wall of the oven cavity, at least one outlet configured to communicate with the oven cavity, and a fan disposed within the convection air channel at a location outside of the oven cavity. The convection air channel is devoid of an additional heating source that is separate from and in addition to the at least one heating source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Sean Johnson, Kenneth Jones, Robert Parchman