Patents by Inventor Stefan Diederichs

Stefan Diederichs 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).

  • Publication number: 20250024979
    Abstract: A household steam-cooking appliance includes a drawer extendible out of a drawer housing horizontally to a front and including a front reservoir portion receiving a water reservoir, and an evaporator tank portion arranged behind the reservoir portion and receiving an evaporator tank. A pivotably arranged lid covers an open top side of the evaporator tank in a steam-tight manner when the drawer is fully retracted into the drawer housing. The drawer is extendible out of its fully retracted position into an intermediate position in which the reservoir portion projects out of the drawer housing for filling the water reservoir and the lid covers the open top side of the evaporator tank in the steam-tight manner. The drawer is extendible out of its intermediate position into a fully extended final position in which the lid is pivotably automatically against the evaporator tank such as to define a gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Ludovic Ball, Stefan Diederichs
  • Patent number: 12092339
    Abstract: A household cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber, a steam generator located outside the cooking chamber, and a steam feed line which connects the steam generator to the cooking chamber. A fresh air line leads to the cooking chamber, with a shut off element being configured to shut off the fresh air line. The steam feed line and the fresh air line have a common end portion, which opens into the cooking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Lego, Martin Nagel, Stefan Diederichs, Hanna Wolf
  • Publication number: 20190137112
    Abstract: A household cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber, a steam generator located outside the cooking chamber, and a steam feed line which connects the steam generator to the cooking chamber. A fresh air line leads to the cooking chamber, with a shut off element being configured to shut off the fresh air line. The steam feed line and the fresh air line have a common end portion, which opens into the cooking chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Dieter Lego, Martin Nagel, Stefan Diederichs, Hanna Wolf
  • Patent number: 7913247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to providing updates of software products via a network, for example the Internet. In order to provide a simple software updates download method which can be run automatically without major manual interference, once some initial work has been done, a Download server side performs the steps of: a) generating a RSS file including information for defining name and location of a file comprising said software update, b) offering the RSS file on a download server, c) evaluating incoming download requests if the request comprises a notation of the RSS file, and d) if the request comprises a notation of the RSS file, sending said file to the requesting user. At the update requesting side a RSS reader program for managing a subscription list is used, wherein each member of the subscription list comprises the definition of a download source file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Stefan Diederichs