Patents by Inventor Wilfried Wildung

Wilfried Wildung 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: 9506179
    Abstract: A modular system for drums of laundry care devices including at least one of washing machines and driers, the modular system including at least two similarly configured base bodies for securing to a respective drum, wherein the at least two similarly configured base bodies are configured for mounted receipt of at least two different functional parts, with the at least two different functional parts being interchangeable on a respective one of the at least two different base bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Uwe Ratfisch, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: 8893532
    Abstract: A laundry drum for a laundry treatment machine that is rotatable about an axis, wherein the laundry drum includes a drum jacket made of metal sheet, and wherein the drum jacket has throughflow holes and linear elevations that are distributed in a peripheral direction and that extend transversely to a periphery line. The linear elevations rise at a distance from one another in a straight or curved line from cylindrical regions of the laundry drum. Agitators are disposed on an inner periphery of the drum jacket and the throughflow holes are disposed in the cylindrical regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Stephan Sommer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: 8752404
    Abstract: A drum for a laundry treatment machine that is rotatably mounted within the housing of the laundry treatment machine, and wherein the drum includes a bottom disk and a jacket which are individually or jointly provided with a curved structure. The curved structure includes at least two rows of prism-type embossings that have substantially rectangular base, and the at least two rows encompass at least partially the drum. A surface of embossings that is directed in a circumferential direction of the drum is arranged at a steep angle to the jacket; an opposing surface of the embossings is arranged at a flat angle to the jacket; and lateral surfaces of the embossings are arranged at least nearly at a right angle to the jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Oertel, Uwe Ratfisch, Stephan Sommer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: 8720235
    Abstract: A laundry drum for a laundry treating machine, wherein the laundry drum includes a drum cover that has a cylindrical shape and structures that are distributed in a circumferential direction of the drum cover. The structures project from the cylindrical shape of the drum cover that is mounted in the laundry drum. Further, the structures are formed from inwardly bulging linear elevations that extend along a circumferential line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Stephan Sommer, Max Speckhart, Roland Vetter, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: 8677789
    Abstract: A plastic suds tub for a washing machine includes a cylindrical casing, an end face wall closing off the casing with a hollow-cylindrical, solid bearing mount, a stabilizer on the end face wall of a more solid and higher-quality plastic than the casing, and reinforcement ribs molded into the stabilizer or end face wall. The reinforcement ribs being radially-aligned from the bearing mount and branching along their radial extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Ismael Gracia Bobed, Christian Quandt, Holger Reichner, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: 8181355
    Abstract: A laundry drum for a laundry treatment machine mounted within a housing for rotation about a non-vertical axis, the laundry drum including a drum casing having a plurality of stamped recesses formed therein in a manner such that at least one sectional plane of the laundry drum lying at right angles to the axis of rotation has an at least approximately circular shape, the laundry drum including a drum casing having the curved stamped recesses formed therein in a manner wherein in the alignment of a surface contour lying in the drum casing is formed a surface having a plurality of arcuate edges which merge continuously into one another with a single axis of symmetry extending at least approximately in the circumferential direction of the drum casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Uwe Ratfisch, Stephan Sommer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: 8099983
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a liquor container suspended for oscillating in a housing. A washing drum is rotatable within the liquor container. A material-elastic collar is connected for establishing a liquid tight seal on the edge of a front-side loading opening of the liquor container, connecting with a housing-side loading opening, and with a door mounted for sealing the housing-side loading opening. A filling element is located on the door and has a curved outward portion in the shape of a truncated cone. The filling element has a surface area with at least one recess commencing close to a largest diameter of the cone portion, and forms a rising surface of sickle shape in the direction of the interior of the drum and toward a smallest diameter of the cone on the surface area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Galina Ballheimer, Bernhard Heym, Rainer Jurmann, Mark Sauer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: 8011210
    Abstract: The invention relates to washing drum shell formed by a final sheet metal strip which is coiled in the form of a cylinder and whose ends are welded to one another. The longitudinal sides thereof are connected to a bottom disk by a high-flange joint provided with transversal embossments. The high flange joint is sufficiently stable even when the carriers of the washing drum are drawn into the shell. The drawn-in carriers are connected by at least one fold to openings shaped in at least one bottom disk and the transversal embossments of the high flange joint are shaped in an area which is arranged directly near a connection between the drawn-in carriers and the bottom disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Heubner, Alfred Nitsche, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20110088276
    Abstract: A laundry drum for a laundry treatment machine mounted within a housing for rotation about a non-vertical axis, the laundry drum including a drum casing having a plurality of stamped recesses formed therein in a manner such that at least one sectional plane of the laundry drum lying at right angles to the axis of rotation has an at least approximately circular shape, the laundry drum including a drum casing having the curved stamped recesses formed therein in a manner wherein in the alignment of a surface contour lying in the drum casing is formed a surface having a plurality of arcuate edges which merge continuously into one another with a single axis of symmetry extending at least approximately in the circumferential direction of the drum casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Uwe Ratfisch, Stephan Sommer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20110048080
    Abstract: A drum for a laundry treatment machine that is rotatably mounted within the housing of the laundry treatement machine, and wherein the drum includes a bottom disk and a jacket which are individually or jointly provided with a curved structure. The curved structure includes at least two rows of prism-type embossings that have substantially rectangular base, and the at least two rows encompass at least partially the drum. A surface of embossings that is directed in a circumferential direction of the drum is arranged at a steep angle to the jacket; an opposing surface of the embossings is arranged at a flat angle to the jacket; and lateral surfaces of the embossings are arranged at least nearly at a right angle to the jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Oertel, Uwe Ratfisch, Stephan Sommer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20100326142
    Abstract: A laundry drum for a laundry treatment machine that is rotatable about an axis, wherein the laundry drum includes a drum jacket made of metal sheet, and wherein the drum jacket has throughflow holes and linear elevations that are distributed in a peripheral direction and that extend transversely to a periphery line. The linear elevations rise at a distance from one another in a straight or curved line from cylindrical regions of the laundry drum. Agitators are disposed on an inner periphery of the drum jacket and the throughflow holes are disposed in the cylindrical regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Stephan Sommer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20100287996
    Abstract: A laundry drum for a laundry treating machine, wherein the laundry drum includes a drum cover that has a cylindrical shape and structures that are distributed in a circumferential direction of the drum cover. The structures project from the cylindrical shape of the drum cover that is mounted in the laundry drum. Further, the structures are formed from inwardly bulging linear elevations that extend along a circumferential line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Stephan Sommer, Max Speckhart, Roland Vetter, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20100192640
    Abstract: A plastic suds tub for a washing machine includes a cylindrical casing, an end face wall closing off the casing with a hollow-cylindrical, solid bearing mount, a stabilizer on the end face wall of a more solid and higher-quality plastic than the casing, and reinforcement ribs molded into the stabilizer or end face wall. The reinforcement ribs being radially-aligned from the bearing mount and branching along their radial extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GmbH
    Inventors: Ismael Gracia Bobed, Christian Quandt, Holger Reichner, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20090308109
    Abstract: A modular system for drums of laundry care devices including at least one of washing machines and driers, the modular system including at least two similarly configured base bodies for securing to a respective drum, wherein the at least two similarly configured base bodies are configured for mounted receipt of at least two different functional parts, with the at least two different functional parts being interchangeable on a respective one of the at least two different base bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Uwe Ratfisch, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20090301143
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a liquor container suspended for oscillating in a housing. A washing drum is rotatable within the liquor container. A material-elastic collar is connected for establishing a liquid tight seal on the edge of a front-side loading opening of the liquor container, connecting with a housing-side loading opening, and with a door mounted for sealing the housing-side loading opening. A filling element is located on the door and has a curved outward portion in the shape of a truncated cone. The filling element has a surface area with at least one recess commencing close to a largest diameter of the cone portion, and forms a rising surface of sickle shape in the direction of the interior of the drum and toward a smallest diameter of the cone on the surface area thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Galina Ballheimer, Bernhard Heym, Rainer Jurmann, Mark Sauer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20090276966
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a horizontally rotatable drum having a drum shell. Hollow agitators are disposed on the inside of the drum and have a base as part of the drum shell and at least one inlet opening to allow lye into the hollow space. Outlet openings are located on a top region of each agitator for allowing lye to pour out upon rotation to an elevated position. A fixed barrier located in the hollow space of each agitator serves to divide the space to define a chamber such that upon rotation from a lowest position, the chamber fills with lye, and upon further rotation the lye flows out of the outlet openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Mette, Uwe Ratfisch, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20090229317
    Abstract: A domestic appliance includes a detergent solution container having at least one first contact surface; and at least one ballast weight having at least one second contact surface mechanically connected to the first contact surface wherein the first contact surface and the second contact surface are glued to one another. At least one depression is formed on the first contact surface or the second contact surface for collecting a certain supply of adhesive mass, in order for it to be possible for a sufficient supply of adhesive to be kept available during joining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Brandt, Frank Emmerich, Holger Fenske, Georg Gramm, Wilfried Wildung
  • Publication number: 20090211313
    Abstract: The invention relates to a water-circulating household appliance that may be, for example a washing machine, washer-drier, or clothes drier. The household appliance includes a rotatably mounted washing drum with a drum casing and a drum cover face. The washing drum is embossed with protrusions in the form of embossments whose edges are ellipsoidal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Marcus Exler, Johannes Geyer, Reinhard Heyder, Alfred Nitsche, Patrick Schüler, Stephan Sommer, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: D600417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Jacques Helot, Uwe Ratfisch, Carsten Weber, Wilfried Wildung
  • Patent number: D604465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Geyer, Jacques Helot, Uwe Ratfisch, Carsten Weber, Wilfried Wildung