Domestic appliance having a swiveled display screen

• US 20070164646A1
• Filed: 04/26/2005
• Published: 07/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Raab, Alfred
• Application Number:
  US11/587,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20070164646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/405.100
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/08 around a vertical axis , e.g. panoramic heads F16M11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/2092 comprising means allowing depth adjustment, i.e. forward-backward translation of the head relatively to the undercarriage
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2400/361 Interactive visual displays
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 29/005 Mounting of control devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/18 Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure

Abstract

A domestic appliance, for example a refrigerator, comprising a housing, a recess in the housing and a display screen which can be swiveled relative to the housing and is disposed flush in the recess of the housing. The display screen is linked on its back with a pair of first arms so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation. The first arms can be extended from an expanded configuration in the flush arrangement of the display screen to an angular configuration. In this angular configuration the at least one, first axis of rotation is displaced beyond the recess, thereby allowing swiveling the display screen about the first axis of rotation.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A domestic appliance comprising a housing, a recess in the housing and a display screen which can be swiveled relative to the housing and is disposed in a recess in the housing in a flush position, wherein at least one axis of rotation on which the display screen is suspended can be moved between a position in which it holds the display screen in the flush position and an extended position it which it extends in front of the recess and the display screen can rotate about the axis of rotation.

22. The domestic appliance according to claim 21, wherein the domestic appliance comprises a first pair of arms to which the display screen is connected on its rear side so that it can rotate about the at least one first axis of rotation, wherein the first arms can be extended from a splayed configuration in the flush position of the display screen into an angular configuration in which the at least one first axis of rotation is located in the extended position.

23. The domestic appliance according to claim 22, further comprising a pair of second arms, wherein each of the two second arms is connected in an articulated fashion to respectively one of the first arms and a position of the domestic appliance adjacent to the recess.

24. The domestic appliance according to claim 22, wherein the first arms and the second arms are embodied as plates.

25. The domestic appliance according to claim 22, wherein the first arms each have substantially the same length and the second arms each have substantially the same length.

26. The domestic appliance according to claim 22, wherein the first arms are mounted such that they can each be displaced in their longitudinal direction on a shaft, which is disposed rotatably on the domestic appliance at a position adjacent to the recess.

27. The domestic appliance according to claim 22, wherein in the splayed configuration, the first arms enclose an angle of about 150°

to about 180°

.

28. The domestic appliance according to claim 22, wherein the display screen is connected jointly to the two first arms by means of a first axis of rotation.

29. The domestic appliance according to claim 28, wherein the first axis of rotation is centrally arranged with respect to the width of the display screen.

30. The domestic appliance according to claim 21, wherein the display screen has no freedom of swiveling movement in its flush position in the recess.

31. The domestic appliance according to claim 21, wherein the first and second arms can rotate about axes of rotation, which run parallel to one another.

32. The domestic appliance according to claim 31, wherein the axes of rotation extend vertically.

33. The domestic appliance according to claim 21, further comprising stops which are arranged so that they face one another on the first arms and come to abut against one another in the angular configuration of the first arms.

34. The domestic appliance according to claim 33, wherein the stops each have sloping surfaces which abut against one another in the angular configuration of the first arms.

35. The domestic appliance according to claim 22, wherein a rotating movement of at least one of the first arms and the display screen about the first axis of rotation is braked by at least one friction brake.

36. The domestic appliance according to claim 35, wherein the at least one friction brake comprises brake disks mounted on a pin of the first arms which clamp a flange of the display screen perpendicular to a first axis of rotation.

37. The domestic appliance according to claim 36, wherein the pin is guided in a groove of the flange.

38. The domestic appliance according to claim 21, wherein a part of the housing of the domestic appliance is formed by a frame which is detachably fixed to the domestic appliance in which the recess for the display screen is located and on the rear side of which at least one of the second arms being affixed in an articulated fashion and the shafts being rotatably affixed.

39. The domestic appliance according to claim 38, wherein the frame is affixed to a door of the domestic appliance which serves to close or open the domestic appliance.

40. The domestic appliance according to claim 21, wherein the domestic appliance includes a refrigerator.