HINGE HAVING A DAMPING DEVICE

• US 20100269294A1
• Filed: 07/08/2010
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Julius BLUM GmbH (BLUM Verwaltung GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Julius BLUM GmbH (BLUM Verwaltung GmbH)
• Inventors: KRAMMER, Bernhard
• Granted Patent: US 7,966,696 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 16/308
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 5/08 of cylindrical shape
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/006 for hinges having a cup-shaped fixing part, e.g. for attachment to cabinets or furniture
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 5/02 specially for preventing the slamming of swinging wings during final closing movement, e.g. jamb stops
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/21 Brakes
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/256 with pistons or vanes
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/266 rotary
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furnitures, e.g. cabinets

Abstract

A hinge, particularly for movable pieces of furniture, having at least two stop parts connected in an articulated manner, which is to say a hinge arm and a hinge cup, for fastening to pieces of furniture, having a damping device for damping the hinge movement, and having a restoring mechanism, by which an actuating element of the damping device can be moved into a starting position for the next damping stroke after damping has taken place, the damping device and the restoring mechanism being disposed as separate components on the hinge cup, characterized in that the damping device, which has no restoring mechanism, is disposed on a lateral wall of the hinge cup, and that the restoring mechanism is disposed on an opposing lateral wall of the hinge cup.

Claims

1. A hinge for movable furniture portions, comprising:

at least two hingedly connected fitment portions, namely a hinge arm and a hinge cup, to be fixed to furniture portions;

a damping device for damping a hinge movement;

a return mechanism by which an actuating element of said damping device can be moved into a ready position for the next damping stroke after damping has occurred;

said damping device and said return mechanism are arranged as separate component units on said hinge cup;

wherein said damping device—

which does not have a return mechanism on its own—

is arranged at a side wall of said hinge cup and said return mechanism is arranged at an opposite side wall of said hinge cup.

2. The hinge according to claim 1, wherein the damping device comprises at least two damping components which are mounted movably relative to each other in a damping stroke, wherein the actuating element is operatively connected to one of the two damping components.

3. The hinge according to claim 2, wherein a damping medium in form of a fluid is arranged between said damping components.

4. The hinge according to claim 1, wherein said actuating element is mounted rotatably during the damping stroke and/or during the return stroke.

5. The hinge according to claim 1, wherein during a closing movement of the hinge, said actuating element can be acted upon by one of said fitment portions or by a hinge lever arranged between said fitment portions.

6. The hinge according to claim 1, wherein said actuating element of said damping device is connected or releasably connectable to a return element of said return mechanism.

7. The hinge according to claim 6, wherein said return element of said return mechanism is mounted rotatably during the damping stroke and/or during the return stroke.

8. The hinge according to claim 6, wherein a spring device can be tensioned by said return element during a closing movement of said hinge, wherein after damping has occurred said return element can be moved by said spring device into a ready position for the next damping stroke.

9. The hinge according to claim 8, wherein said spring device comprises at least one torsion spring.

10. The hinge according to claim 8, wherein said spring device is operative between a return housing of said return mechanism and said return element.

11. The hinge according to claim 10, wherein said return element is pivotally mounted with respect to said return housing.

12. The hinge according to claim 10, wherein said return housing is arranged on said hinge cup.

13. The hinge according to claim 12, wherein said return housing is arranged externally on said hinge cup at an outside wall thereof which is a lateral wall in the mounted position and in the mounted position beneath a fixing flange of said hinge cup.

14. The hinge according to claim 1, wherein said damping device has a damper housing which is arranged on the same fitment portion as a return housing associated with said return mechanism.

15. The hinge according to claim 14, wherein said damper housing is arranged externally on said hinge cup at an outside wall thereof which is a lateral wall in the mounted position and in the mounted position beneath a fixing flange of said hinge cup.

16. The hinge according to claim 15, wherein said damper housing is arranged on a side wall of said hinge cup and said return housing is arranged on an opposite side wall of said hinge cup.