Electrical kitchen appliance

• US 20040194647A1
• Filed: 03/01/2004
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• 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: Zibret, Igor, Areh, Marko, Pavlovic, Henrik
• Granted Patent: US 7,193,171 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 100/213
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 19/02 Citrus fruit squeezers; Other fruit juice extracting devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 13/14 Operating parts, e.g. push-button
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2221/004 U-shaped openings surrounding keys
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2221/09 Flexible integral part of housing

Abstract

An outer wall is created for an electrical kitchen appliance and has a formation of recesses defining strips. A button is disposed on the strips. Regions embodied as film hinges are provided between the strips, enabling them, and thus the button disposed in-between the same, to pivot, in order to actuate an electrical button or a switch inside the housing of the kitchen appliance.

Claims

1. An electrical kitchen appliance, comprising:

an electrical switching device;

a housing having an outer wall made of an elastic material and having a first wall thickness, said outer wall forming a button for actuating said electrical switching device disposed inside said housing, said button defined by a region of said outer wall having a second wall thickness being less than the first wall thickness; and

a drive unit disposed in said housing.

2. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1, wherein said outer wall has recessed parts formed therein, said recessed parts being said region for defining said button.

3. The kitchen appliance according to claim 1, wherein said region has two first strips formed in said outer wall running substantially parallel to one another between which runs a second strip having the first wall thickness, said two first strips having the second wall thickness.

4. The kitchen appliance according to claim 3, wherein said second strip of the first wall thickness is enlarged in a circular shape at one point defining a circularly enlarged point.

5. The kitchen appliance according to claim 4, wherein said circularly enlarged point has gripping pimples.

6. The kitchen appliance according to claim 3, wherein said outer wall has recesses formed therein defining two third strips running substantially parallel to one another, and each of said third strips respectively adjoining one of said two first strips substantially at a right angle.

7. The kitchen appliance according to claim 6, wherein between said first strips and said third strips said outer wall having further regions of reduced wall thickness serving as film hinges.

8. The kitchen appliance according to claim 7, further comprising a further outer wall covering parts of said outer wall, said further outer wall not covering a region occupying at least part of a surface of said button.

9. The kitchen appliance according to claim 2, wherein said region has two first strips formed in said outer wall running substantially parallel to one another between which runs a second strip having the first wall thickness, said two first strips being said recesses parts.

10. The kitchen appliance according to claim 9, wherein said second strip of the first wall thickness is enlarged in a circular shape at one point defining a circularly enlarged point.

11. The kitchen appliance according to claim 10, wherein said circularly enlarged point has gripping pimples.

12. The kitchen appliance according to claim 9, wherein said outer wall has recesses formed therein defining two third strips running substantially parallel to one another, and each of said third strips respectively adjoining one of said two first strips substantially at a right angle.

13. The kitchen appliance according to claim 12, wherein between said first strips and said third strips said outer wall having further regions of reduced wall thickness serving as film hinges.

14. The kitchen appliance according to claim 13, further comprising a further outer wall covering parts of said outer wall, said further outer wall not covering a region occupying at least part of a surface of said button.

15. A fruit press, comprising:

an electrical switching device;

a housing having an outer wall made of an elastic material and having a first wall thickness, said outer wall forming a button for actuating said electrical switching device disposed inside said housing, said button defined by a region of said outer wall having a second wall thickness being less than the first wall thickness; and

a drive unit disposed in said housing.

16. The kitchen appliance according to claim 15, wherein said outer wall has recessed parts formed therein, said recessed parts being said region for defining said button.