Household appliance, in particular beverage bottle storage cabinet with specific bottle illumination

• US 9,844,279 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Cinici, Bilal, Dinter, Lars, Ertik, Mustafa, Yildizgoecer, Tanzer
• Primary Examiner(s): MAY, ROBERT J
• Application Number:
  US14/974,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20160174733A1
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 362125
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 73/00 Bottle cupboards; Bottle racks
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/001 Devices for lighting, humidifying, heating, ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/0434 Glass or transparent panels
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/28 for containers, e.g. flasks, bottles , tins, milk packs racks or containers with dispensing arrangements A47F1/04; for lipsticks or markers A47F7/0021; for audio/video cassettes or booklike articles A47F7/14
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/04 Recessed bases
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/0044 Household appliances, e.g. washing machines or vacuum cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/305 for refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2131/405 for shop-windows or displays
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2331/803 Bottles
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 25/02 by shelves
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2500/02 Geometry problems
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 27/00 Lighting arrangements in general F21

Abstract

A household appliance, in particular a beverage bottle storage cabinet, has a beverage bottle receiving space, which is delimited by an upper wall. An illuminating device illuminates the beverage bottle receiving space. The upper wall has at least one light transmission opening through which light of a light module of the illuminating device can be radiated into the beverage bottle receiving space. A distance adapter adjoins the light transmission opening. The distance adapter spaces the light module from an underside of the upper wall that delimits the beverage bottle receiving space outside the beverage bottle receiving space. The distance adapter allows light from the light module to be directed to the light transmission opening.

Claims

1. A household appliance, comprising:

a body containing a beverage bottle receiving space;

an upper wall delimiting said beverage bottle receiving space;

an illuminating device for illuminating said beverage bottle receiving space, said illuminating device having a light module;

said upper wall being formed with at least one light transmission opening configured to enable light of said light module of said illuminating device to be radiated into said beverage bottle receiving space;

a distance adapter adjoining said light transmission opening, said distance adapter carrying said light module outside said beverage bottle receiving space and spacing said light module from an underside of said upper wall delimiting the beverage bottle receiving space, said distance adapter enabling light from said light module to be directed to said light transmission opening;

said distance adapter having a bottom facing away from said beverage bottle receiving space, said bottom being formed with a continuous hole that is delimited by a circumferential abutment flange on which said light module is disposed; and

said distance adapter being formed with said abutment flange and a front flange facing toward said upper wall, and said abutment flange defining a plane that is inclined relative to a plane of said front flange.

2. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein an inner side of said distance adapter opens out from said light module towards said light transmission opening in the form of a funnel.

3. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said distance adapter is a separate component fastened to said upper wall.

4. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said distance adapter is made of plastic.

5. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said light module is positioned to emit light diagonally forward towards a front and downwards into said beverage bottle receiving space.

6. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said plane defined by said abutment flange is inclined at an angle of between 30°

and 70°

relative to the plane of said front flange.

7. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said light module is arranged such that a main radiation direction of light emitted by said light module is perpendicular to said plane of said abutment flange.

8. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said light module is mounted to said abutment flange by way of latches.

9. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said distance adapter has a stepped inner side.

10. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said upper wall is a shelf that separates said beverage bottle receiving space from a further receiving space formed above said beverage bottle receiving space.

11. The household appliance according to claim 1, wherein said light module and said distance adapter are arranged to fit entirely within said upper wall.

12. The household appliance according to claim 1, configured as a beverage bottle storage cabinet.

13. A household appliance, comprising:

a body containing a beverage bottle receiving space;

an upper wall delimiting said beverage bottle receiving space, said illuminating device having a light module;

said upper wall being formed with at least one light transmission opening configured to enable light of said light module of said illuminating device to be radiated into said beverage bottle receiving space;

a distance adapter adjoining said light transmission opening, said distance adapter carrying said light module outside said beverage bottle receiving space and spacing said light module from an underside of said upper wall delimiting the beverage bottle receiving space, said distance adapter enabling light from said light module to be directed to said light transmission opening;

wherein said distance adapter has a bottom facing away from said beverage bottle receiving space, said bottom being formed with a continuous hole that is delimited by a circumferential abutment flange on which said light module is disposed;

wherein said distance adaptor has a front flange facing said upper wall; and

wherein said distance adapter is arranged such that viewed in a depth direction of the household appliance an intersecting line of a plane of said abutment flange and a plane of said front flange is closer to a front edge of said wall than free edges of said planes.

14. A household appliance, comprising:

a body containing a beverage bottle receiving space;

an upper wall delimiting said beverage bottle receiving space;

an illuminating device for illuminating said beverage bottle receiving space, said illuminating device having a light module;

said upper wall being formed with at least one light transmission opening configured to enable light of said light module of said illuminating device to be radiated into said beverage bottle receiving space;

a distance adapter adjoining said light transmission opening, said distance adapter carrying said light module outside said beverage bottle receiving space and spacing said light module from an underside of said upper wall delimiting the beverage bottle receiving space, said distance adapter enabling light from said light module to be directed to said light transmission opening; and

wherein said upper wall is a shelf that separates said beverage bottle receiving space from a further receiving space formed above said beverage bottle receiving space.