STATIONARY HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE, IN PARTICULAR A DISHWASHER

• US 20110012486A1
• Filed: 03/27/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Kücük, Cengiz, Fetzer, Gerhard, Hotz, Dieter
• Granted Patent: US 9,211,050 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/228
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 15/4209 Insulation arrangements, e.g. for sound damping or heat insulation
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 15/4261 Connections of the door to the casing, e.g. door hinges
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 39/14 Doors or covers; Securing means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 11/0054 Covers, e.g. for protection
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 2011/0072 for the gap between hinge parts
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/023 Mounting of doors, e.g. hinges, counterbalancing

Abstract

A stationary household appliance having a door that is pivotably mounted on the stationary household appliance by a joint. The stationary household appliance also has a noise damper that is provided in a region of the joint.

Claims

1-29. -29. (canceled)

30. A stationary household appliance, comprising:

a joint;

a door pivotably mounted on the stationary household appliance by the joint; and

a noise damper provided in a region of the joint.

31. The stationary household appliance of claim 30, wherein the stationary household appliance is a dishwasher.

32. The stationary household appliance of claim 30, wherein the joint has a hinge lever that is associated with the stationary household appliance and a hinge support that is associated with the door, and wherein the hinge lever and the hinge support are pivotably engaged with each other about an axis of rotation.

33. The stationary household appliance of claim 32, wherein the noise damper is disposed on the hinge support.

34. The stationary household appliance of claim 33, wherein the noise damper has a noise damping wall.

35. The stationary household appliance of claim 34, wherein the noise damper has a basic element, and wherein the noise damping wall extends from the basic element to the hinge support.

36. The stationary household appliance of claim 35, wherein, in a noise exit direction, the noise damping wall at least partially covers a hinge lever opening on a housing front of the stationary household appliance.

37. The stationary household appliance of claim 30, wherein the noise damper has a force transmission element which transmits a force acting on an outer side of a housing wall of the stationary household appliance into components of the stationary household appliance.

38. The stationary household appliance of claim 37, wherein the force transmission element has at least two force introduction regions for transmitting the force into at least two different ones of the components of the stationary household appliance.

39. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein a first force introduction region of the at least two force introduction regions is provided in a hinge support on which a hinge lever of the door of the stationary household appliance is pivotably mounted.

40. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein a second force introduction region of the at least two force introduction regions is provided in a front frame delimiting a loading opening of the stationary household appliance.

41. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein a third force introduction region of the at least two force introduction regions is provided in a hinge lever of the door.

42. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein a fourth force introduction region of the at least two force introduction regions is provided in a base of the stationary household appliance.

43. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein the force transmission element has a support element that protrudes from the force transmission element, and wherein the support element is associated with a respective one of the at least two force introduction regions.

44. The stationary household appliance of claim 43, wherein the support element is supported on a hinge support.

45. The household appliance of claim 38, further comprising two opposing hinge supports and an intermediate door arranged between the two opposing hinge support, wherein the two opposing hinge supports are connected by a plinth rail.

46. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein the force transmission element has a plate-shaped basic element.

47. The stationary household appliance of claim 46, wherein the plate-shaped basic element has framework-like reinforcing walls.

48. The stationary household appliance of claim 47, wherein the framework-like reinforcing walls and a support element of the force transmission element are disposed on a common side surface of the plate-shaped basic element.

49. The stationary household appliance of claim 48, wherein a side of the plate-shaped basic element facing away from the support element is opposite an outer wall of a housing of the stationary household appliance.

50. The stationary household appliance of claim 49, wherein the force transmission element is one of a plastic injection molded part and a metal injection molded part.

51. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein the force transmission element has a plurality of latching elements for latching connection with a component of the stationary household appliance.

52. The stationary household appliance of claim 51, wherein each of the plurality of latching elements is integrally molded as at least one of a single material and a single piece on a support element of the force transmission element.

53. The stationary household appliance of claim 52, wherein the support element has a front-side support surface onto which a respective one of the plurality of latching elements is integrally molded.

54. The stationary household appliance of claim 38, wherein the force transmission element has a plate-shaped basic element, and wherein the plate-shaped basic element has a side wall running around an edge of the plate-shaped basic element.

55. The stationary household appliance of claim 32, wherein the hinge lever has a lever arm that is connected to a compensation device that exerts a compensation torque on the door to counteract a gravity torque of the door.

56. The stationary household appliance of claim 55, wherein the lever arm of the hinge lever is disposed between the hinge support and a force transmission element of the noise damper.

57. The stationary household appliance of claim 43, wherein the support element of the force transmission element is disposed outside of a pivot path of a lever arm of a hinge lever.

58. The stationary household appliance of claim 35, wherein the basic element has, in a region of the hinge lever, a raised bearing contour which is, in a normal condition, remote from a lever arm and which is, on exposure to force from a retention force, deformed in an elastically resilient manner until the bearing contour comes into contact with the hinge lever.

59. A force distributor for a stationary household appliance, the stationary household appliance comprising:

a joint;

a door pivotably mounted on the stationary household appliance by the joint; and

a noise damper provided in a region of the joint.