Patents by Inventor Ronald Allen Diehl
Ronald Allen Diehl 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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Patent number: 11549690Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance for heating a food item is provided. The domestic cooking appliance includes a housing; a cooking chamber located in the housing and having a wall, the cooking chamber being configured to contain the food item while the food item is being heated; a heating element that provides heat to the cooking chamber for heating the food item; a temperature detector located in the cooking chamber and configured to detect a temperature in the cooking chamber; and a temperature detector positive motion stop located in the cooking chamber and surrounding a portion of the temperature detector.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Rose Marie Parker, Bryan Umphrey
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Patent number: 11428417Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a housing, a cooktop on the housing, the cooktop having at least one gas burner, a cooking compartment in the housing and accessible through a door in a front of the housing, a cooling air system having a cooling fan that conveys cooling air through the housing, and an air guide between the cooktop and the cooking compartment, the air guide including an inlet located away from a space below the at least one gas burner of the cooktop and an outlet in fluid communication with the cooling fan, the air guide configured to restrict air from being drawn into the cooling fan from the space below the at least one gas burner of the cooktop.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliance Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Shaun Phillips
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Patent number: 11378281Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing that is configured to guide flue gases exiting from an exhaust channel of a cooking compartment in an upward direction out of the housing. The rear vent trim includes a body, a back panel closing a rear side of the body, and a heat shield disposed between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim. The heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 11286698Abstract: Cooking appliances described herein may include an oven and a cooktop disposed above the oven. The oven may have an oven cavity and an oven door configured to open and close the oven cavity by pivoting about a horizontal axis. A linear actuator may be coupled to the oven door and configured to reposition the oven door in a vertical direction. Using this apparatus, a user may be assisted by the vertically-repositionable oven door when lifting and lowering objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Shaun Phillips
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Patent number: 11073288Abstract: A door assembly for a domestic cooking appliance having a cooking compartment for heating a food item includes an outer door skin; an inner door liner; a transparent viewing panel assembly between the outer door skin and the inner door liner, the viewing panel assembly being configured to permit a user to view the cooking compartment when the door assembly is in a closed position; an interior region located between the outer door skin and the viewing panel assembly; a lower air opening in a lower region of the door assembly that fluidly connects the interior region with an environment outside of the door assembly; and a top upper air opening in an uppermost surface of the outer door skin that fluidly connects the interior region with the environment outside of the door assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20210102710Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a rear vent trim at a rear side of the top of the housing that is configured to guide flue gases exiting from an exhaust channel of a cooking compartment in an upward direction out of the housing. The rear vent trim includes a body, a back panel closing a rear side of the body, and a heat shield disposed between the back panel and the flue gases flowing in the rear vent trim. The heat shield is spaced from the back panel and forms an air gap between the back panel and the heat shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Timothy Russell
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Patent number: 10895381Abstract: A domestic gas cooking appliance for heating a food item is provided. The domestic cooking appliance includes a top sheet; a burner body on the top sheet, the burner body having an upwardly extending riser pin; a gas supply line that supplies gas to the burner body; and a burner cap positioned above the burner body and resting on the riser pin such that a pin receiving area contacts the riser pin. One of the riser pin and the pin receiving area comprises a magnet, and the other of the riser pin and the pin receiving area comprises a ferrous material.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignees: BSH Home Appliance Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Charles Gibson
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Publication number: 20200408419Abstract: A home cooking appliance includes a housing, a cooktop on the housing, the cooktop having at least one gas burner, a cooking compartment in the housing and accessible through a door in a front of the housing, a cooling air system having a cooling fan that conveys cooling air through the housing, and an air guide between the cooktop and the cooking compartment, the air guide including an inlet located away from a space below the at least one gas burner of the cooktop and an outlet in fluid communication with the cooling fan, the air guide configured to restrict air from being drawn into the cooling fan from the space below the at least one gas burner of the cooktop.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Shaun Phillips
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Publication number: 20200408418Abstract: A door assembly for a domestic cooking appliance having a cooking compartment for heating a food item includes an outer door skin; an inner door liner; a transparent viewing panel assembly between the outer door skin and the inner door liner, the viewing panel assembly being configured to permit a user to view the cooking compartment when the door assembly is in a closed position; an interior region located between the outer door skin and the viewing panel assembly; a lower air opening in a lower region of the door assembly that fluidly connects the interior region with an environment outside of the door assembly; and a top upper air opening in an uppermost surface of the outer door skin that fluidly connects the interior region with the environment outside of the door assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Ian McIver, Rose Marie Parker, Timothy Russell
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Publication number: 20200408017Abstract: Cooking appliances described herein may include an oven and a cooktop disposed above the oven. The oven may have an oven cavity and an oven door configured to open and close the oven cavity by pivoting about a horizontal axis. A linear actuator may be coupled to the oven door and configured to reposition the oven door in a vertical direction. Using this apparatus, a user may be assisted by the vertically-repositionable oven door when lifting and lowering objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Shaun Phillips
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Publication number: 20200378612Abstract: A domestic cooking appliance for heating a food item is provided. The domestic cooking appliance includes a housing; a cooking chamber located in the housing and having a wall, the cooking chamber being configured to contain the food item while the food item is being heated; a heating element that provides heat to the cooking chamber for heating the food item; a temperature detector located in the cooking chamber and configured to detect a temperature in the cooking chamber; and a temperature detector positive motion stop located in the cooking chamber and surrounding a portion of the temperature detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Ben Braden, Ronald Allen Diehl, Rose Marie Parker, Bryan Umphrey
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Publication number: 20200370748Abstract: A domestic gas cooking appliance for heating a food item is provided. The domestic cooking appliance includes a top sheet; a burner body on the top sheet, the burner body having an upwardly extending riser pin; a gas supply line that supplies gas to the burner body; and a burner cap positioned above the burner body and resting on the riser pin such that a pin receiving area contacts the riser pin. One of the riser pin and the pin receiving area comprises a magnet, and the other of the riser pin and the pin receiving area comprises a ferrous material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Ronald Allen Diehl, Josiah Fronckowiak, Charles Gibson