Patents by Inventor Thomas Bischofberger
Thomas Bischofberger 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: 20240148098Abstract: A helmet is provided that can include a cage defining a front end, a back end opposite the front end, a first lateral end and a second lateral end opposite the first lateral end. The cage can include multiple longitudinal beams that extend between the back end of the cage and the front end of the cage; and a transverse beam that extends between the first lateral end of the cage and the second lateral end of the cage. The transverse beam can be anchored to the multiple longitudinal beams. The helmet can include a body that fully encapsulates the multiple longitudinal beams of the cage and that partially encapsulates the transverse beam. The body can define multiple vents. Each vent can be situated between two adjacent longitudinal beams. The transverse beam can extend through one of the multiple vents.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Ming Xi Yu, Allen Albert Bischofberger, Christopher Thomas Pietrzak, Michael Joseph Krynock
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Patent number: 11060788Abstract: A household refrigeration appliance has a housing in which there is embodied a receiving space for foodstuffs, a first door and a second door separate therefrom. The doors closing a front-side receiving opening of the receiving space to the front. A door stop bar is disposed externally to the doors which is arranged in the receiving opening and is connected by a first end to a first boundary wall and by a second end to a second boundary wall. Wherein in the closed state the doors abut against the door stop bar on the front side, and have a frame heating which is arranged on the door stop bar for the purpose of heating the door stop bar. A heating line of the frame heating is arranged behind a front panel of the door stop bar and is thermally coupled to the front panel by the heat-conducting transmission medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Andreas Lindel, Michael Krapp, Thomas Bischofberger
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Publication number: 20210055044Abstract: A household appliance includes a body or a carcass and a closing element, such as a door or a drawer, which is movably disposed on the body. A sensor unit is provided for measuring the temperature and/or the humidity. The sensor unit is at least partly disposed on the closing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: SIMON KRAEMER, THOMAS BISCHOFBERGER, OLAF BAYERKE, ROLAND KUEMMEL
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Patent number: 9982932Abstract: A refrigeration appliance has a refrigerator compartment container and an ice container for providing ice. The refrigerator compartment container delimits a refrigerator compartment. A receiving niche for receiving the ice container is formed in an exterior of the refrigerator compartment container. The receiving niche has an opening to the refrigerator compartment, wherein an opening of the ice container and the opening of the receiving niche are aligned flush with one another. The ice container has a container outer wall, a container inner wall and a thermal insulation, which is arranged between the container inner wall and the container outer wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Andreas Lindel, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Thomas Bischofberger, Felix Wiedenmann
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Patent number: 9677806Abstract: A refrigeration device includes a housing which surrounds a storage compartment; and a container mounted in the storage compartment and including a drawer and a cover, with the cover being height-adjustable between a closed position of the drawer and an open position. The cover is guided on an obliquely sloping path between the closed position and the open position by ramps adjacent to corners of the cover.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Hans Ihle, Astrid Klingshirn
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Publication number: 20170074574Abstract: A refrigeration appliance has a refrigerator compartment container and an ice container for providing ice. The refrigerator compartment container delimits a refrigerator compartment. A receiving niche for receiving the ice container is formed in an exterior of the refrigerator compartment container. The receiving niche has an opening to the refrigerator compartment, wherein an opening of the ice container and the opening of the receiving niche are aligned flush with one another. The ice container has a container outer wall, a container inner wall and a thermal insulation, which is arranged between the container inner wall and the container outer wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: ANDREAS LINDEL, KARL-FRIEDRICH LAIBLE, THOMAS BISCHOFBERGER, FELIX WIEDENMANN
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Publication number: 20140053593Abstract: In a refrigerator having a thermally insulating housing which surrounds a storage chamber and having a refrigerant circuit which comprises a compressor, a condenser, a restrictor and an evaporator which cools the storage chamber, the restrictor is arranged at least partially on a side wall of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbHInventors: Hans Ihle, Thomas Bischofberger, Cuma Dülger, Panagiotis Fotiadis
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Patent number: 8256237Abstract: A refrigerating device is provided that includes an evaporator and a compartment that is cooled by air circulating air from and to the evaporator, wherein a diffusion layer can be displaced between a first position, in which air passage openings distributed in a wall separating the compartment from a distribution chamber are covered by the diffusion layer, and a second position, in which the diffusion layer is positioned so as to allow air to flow from the evaporator through the distribution chamber into the compartment while bypassing the diffusion layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Fritz Hägele, Hans Ihle, Andreas Kempte, Frank Placke, Rainer Spaag, Matthias Stahl, Ulrich van Pels
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Publication number: 20120146477Abstract: A refrigeration device includes a housing which surrounds a storage compartment; and a container mounted in the storage compartment and including a drawer and a cover, with the cover being height-adjustable between a closed position of the drawer and an open position. The cover is guided on an obliquely sloping path between the closed position and the open position by ramps adjacent to corners of the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Hans Ihle, Astrid Klingshirn
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Publication number: 20110107783Abstract: A channel closure means for a defrosting water channel of a refrigeration unit, such as a NoFrost refrigeration unit, is provided, wherein the channel closure means is water-soluble. Further, a defrosting water channel of a refrigeration unit is provided, wherein the defrosting water channel includes a channel closure means. In addition, a refrigeration unit, such as a NoFrost refrigeration unit is provided, wherein the refrigeration unit has a defrosting water channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2008Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Martin Buchstab, Hans Ihle
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Publication number: 20100199706Abstract: A refrigerator device having a thermally insulated housing, the interior of which is accessible via a door. The device includes at least one flow duct for the introduction of air into the interior, a fan for generating an air flow along the flow duct, and an air filter arranged in the flow duct. According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, an air filter for a refrigeration device can be produced with an adequate filter effect with low airflow hindrance into the refrigeration device, wherein the air filter in the flow duct only extends over a part of the flow width thereof. The invention further relates to an air filter designed as a filter cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Hans Ihle, Andreas Kemmer, Andreas Kempte
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Publication number: 20100186421Abstract: A method for operating an ice cube maker having an ice dish, at least one ice cube compartment that is filled with water and in which ice is produced by cooling, and two poles between which a field is generated and which are disposed such that at least part of the water is in the field. The method includes pouring the water into the ice dish; cooling the water; removing frozen ice from the ice dish; and applying a field to at least part of the water.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBHInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Panagiotis Fotiadis, Hans Ihle
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Publication number: 20100089089Abstract: A refrigerating device is provided that includes an evaporator and a compartment that is cooled by air circulating air from and to the evaporator, wherein a diffusion layer can be displaced between a first position, in which air passage openings distributed in a wall separating the compartment from a distribution chamber are covered by the diffusion layer, and a second position, in which the diffusion layer is positioned so as to allow air to flow from the evaporator through the distribution chamber into the compartment while bypassing the diffusion layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2008Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicants: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH, MIELE & CIE. KGInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Fritz Hägele, Hans Ihle, Andreas Kempte, Frank Placke, Rainer Spaag, Matthias Stahl, Ulrich van Pels
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Publication number: 20090320515Abstract: A refrigerating device having a body and a door that enclose a refrigerated interior, have frame surfaces oriented toward each other and delimit a gap filled by a seal, the refrigerating device including at least one wall in at least one frame surface being forming with a passage therein, said passage being configured to bridge the seal, thereby allowing the interior to communicate with the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2006Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Thomas Bischofberger, Martin Buchstab, Alexander Görz, Hans Ihle, Wolfgang Kentner, Karl-Friedrich Laible
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Patent number: D1021272Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Allen Albert Bischofberger, Luiz Felipe de Melo Dias, Alexander Hart Jerome, David Tyler Debus, Christopher Thomas Pietrzak
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Patent number: D1021273Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.Inventors: Allen Albert Bischofberger, Luiz Felipe de Melo Dias, Alexander Hart Jerome, David Tyler Debus, Christopher Thomas Pietrzak