Door for a household appliance

• US 8,789,900 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Issued: 07/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Laible, Karl-Friedrich, Steichele, Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): WILKENS, JANET MARIE
• Application Number:
  US11/919,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20090045705A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,039 Days
• Field of Search: 312/226, 312/227, 312326-329, 312/204, 312/265.5, 312/265.6, 312/348.3, 403/326, 403/329
• US Class Current: 312/204
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2096/208 Decorative panels for household appliances
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 96/20 Furniture panels or like furniture elements
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 15/4265 Arrangements of door covering/decoration panels or plinths, e.g. for integrated dishwashers
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/028 Details
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/10 Arrangements for mounting in particular locations, e.g. for built-in type, for corner type
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2400/18 Aesthetic features

Abstract

A door for a household appliance is provided. The door includes a door outer skin; a decorative panel attached to the door outer skin, the decorative panel and the door outer skin being separated by an intermediate space; a gap located in the intermediate space, the gap being formed on and parallel to the decorative panel or the door outer skin; and an angle piece having a first limb and a second limb. The decorative panel and the door outer skin are connected together by the angle piece, the first limb engages the gap, and the second limb is attached to an edge of the door outer skin or the decorative panel.

Claims

1. A door for a household appliance, comprising:

a door outer skin;

a decorative panel attached to the door outer skin, the decorative panel and the door outer skin being separated by an intermediate space;

a bridge attached to the decorative panel or the door outer skin and located in the intermediate space, the bridge forming a gap between the bridge and the decorative panel or the door outer skin, the gap being parallel to the decorative panel or the door outer skin; and

an angle piece having a first limb and a second limb,

wherein the decorative panel and the door outer skin are connected together by the angle piece,

the first limb engages the gap, a distal end of the first limb being oriented away from a nearest peripheral edge of the decorative panel, and

the second limb is attached to an edge of the door outer skin or the decorative panel, wherein the second limb comprises;

a first surface that is disposed towards the door outer skin or the decorative panel where the second limb is attached; and

a second surface opposite the first surface and defining a thickness of the second limb together with the first surface,

wherein all of the angle piece is inward of the second surface with respect to a nearest outer edge of the decorative panel.

2. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gap is open toward an adjacent side edge of the decorative panel or to a side edge of the door outer skin.

3. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein one side of the gap is delimited by the bridge and the other side of the gap is delimited by the decorative panel or the door outer skin.

4. The door as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bridge is configured in a shaped part and is essentially U-shaped.

5. The door as claimed in claim 4, wherein the span of the bridge is defined by the spacing between two U-limbs of the bridge.

6. The door as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bridge has a span of at least one and a half times a width of the first limb.

7. The door as claimed in claim 3, wherein the first limb includes a bead oriented toward the bridge.

8. The door as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a plurality of bridges provided at vertical side edges of the decorative panel or the door outer skin.

9. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second limb includes an elongated hole.

10. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gap is arranged on the decorative panel.

11. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first limb comprises a bead with a length that is longer than a width, the length being along a direction of insertion of the first limb into the gap and at least partially within the gap.

12. The door as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first limb frictionally engages the bridge within the gap by way of the bead.

13. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the angle piece has an overall L-shape.

14. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the door is for a household appliance that is not installed in a furniture slot.

15. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the decorative panel does not project laterally beyond a body of the household appliance.

16. A door for a household appliance, comprising:

a door outer skin;

a decorative panel attached to the door outer skin, the decorative panel and the door outer skin being separated by an intermediate space;

a bridge attached to the decorative panel or the door outer skin, and, as seen from a front side of the door, the bridge is located completely between the decorative panel and the door outer skin in the intermediate space, the bridge forming a gap between the bridge and the decorative panel or the door outer skin, the gap being parallel to the decorative panel or the door outer skin; and

an angle piece having a first limb and a second limb,

wherein the decorative panel and the door outer skin are connected together by the angle piece,

the first limb engages the gap, a distal end of the first limb being oriented away from a nearest peripheral edge of the decorative panel, and

the second limb is attached to an edge of the door outer skin or the decorative panel wherein the second limb comprises;

a first surface that is disposed towards the door outer skin or the decorative panel where the second limb is attached; and

a second surface opposite the first surface and defining a thickness of the second limb together with the first surface,

wherein all of the angle piece is inward of the second surface with respect to a nearest outer edge of the decorative panel.

17. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein the gap is open toward an adjacent side edge of the decorative panel or to a side edge of the door outer skin.

18. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein one side of the gap is delimited by the bridge and the other side of the gap is delimited by the decorative panel or the door outer skin.

19. The door as claimed in claim 18, wherein the bridge is configured in a shaped part and is essentially U-shaped.

20. The door as claimed in claim 19, wherein the span of the bridge is defined by the spacing between two U-limbs of the bridge.

21. The door as claimed in claim 18, wherein the bridge has a span of at least one and a half times a width of the first limb.

22. The door as claimed in claim 18, wherein the first limb includes a bead oriented toward the bridge.

23. The door as claimed in claim 18, further comprising a plurality of bridges provided at vertical side edges of the decorative panel or the door outer skin.

24. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein the second limb includes an elongated hole.

25. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein the gap is arranged on the decorative panel.

26. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein the first limb comprises a bead with a length that is longer than a width, the length being along a direction of insertion of the first limb into the gap and at least partially within the gap.

27. The door as claimed in claim 26, wherein the first limb frictionally engages the bridge within the gap by way of the bead.

28. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein the angle piece has an overall L-shape.

29. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein the door is for a household appliance that is not installed in a furniture slot.

30. The door as claimed in claim 16, wherein the decorative panel does not project laterally beyond a body of the household appliance.