Domestic refrigeration device having a control element designed with an integrated display unit for actuating a cover of a food storage container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10260799-B2
Application number	US-201515510749-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2015
Priority date	Sep 12, 2014
Publication date	Apr 16, 2019
Grant date	Apr 16, 2019

Abstract

A domestic refrigeration device has an internal space for receiving foodstuffs, which is bounded by walls of an internal container, and a storage container for foodstuffs that is arranged in the internal space and can be closed with a lid. The refrigerator further has a mounting device with which the lid is mounted in the internal space such that it can be raised and lowered for opening and closing the food storage container. A control element is provided by which the lid can be actuated, wherein the control element for actuating the lid can be actuated along an actuation path and the lid can be positioned, in dependence on a position of the control element, in a first closed position and at least in a second fully open position. The control element itself has a display unit for displaying symbolic information depending on the position of the lid.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A domestic refrigeration appliance, comprising:
an internal container having walls defining an internal compartment for holding food and said internal compartment being bounded by said walls;
a lid;
a food storage container for the food, being disposed in said internal compartment and can be closed by said lid;
a mounting device mounting said lid in said internal compartment such that said lid can be raised and lowered to open and close said food storage container;
an operating element for actuating said lid, wherein it is possible for said operating element to be actuated on an actuation path to actuate said lid and for said lid to be positioned in a first closed position and at least in a second completely open position in dependence on a position of said operating element, said operating element having a display unit to display symbolic information in dependence on a position of said lid;
said display unit having an information disk with information elements configured in a fixed position and permanently thereon; and
an operating element support, said information disk disposed in said operating element and fastened in a fixed position on said operating element support, on which said operating element is disposed such that said operating element can be moved relative to said operating element support.

2. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said display unit is a non-electronic display unit.

3. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the information element is configured as a printing.

4. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said information disk is disposed in a latched manner on said operating element support.

5. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to the claim 1 , wherein said display unit has a cover plate disposed in said operating element and covering said information disk from above.

6. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 5 , wherein said cover plate is disposed on said operating element in a fixed position in such a manner that said cover plate can be moved relative to said information disk, namely by means of a non-destructively releasable connection.

7. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 5 , wherein said cover plate has at least one viewing window, through which the information element configured on an upper face of said information disk facing said cover plate can be identified in dependence on the position of said operating element and therefore a position of said cover plate relative to said information disk.

8. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 7 , wherein said cover plate is configured from an at least translucent material and has a lower face facing said information disk, apart from said viewing window, being formed from an opaque material.

9. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 5 , wherein said operating element has a mushroom-shaped display unit support for said display unit, wherein said mushroom-shaped display unit support is disposed on said operating element support so that said mushroom-shaped display unit support can be moved relative thereto, wherein said information disk and said cover plate of said display unit are disposed in a mushroom-shaped head of said mushroom-shaped display unit support.

10. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 9 , wherein said operating element has a terminating ring, said terminating ring is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to said mushroom-shaped display unit support and which encloses said mushroom-shaped head and said cover plate peripherally.

11. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 10 , wherein said terminating ring has a cone-shaped upper face.

12. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 9 , wherein:
said operating element support has an opening formed therein;
said operating element has a coupling device; and
said mushroom-shaped display unit support has a stem that extends through said opening in said operating element support and is connected to said coupling device to move said lid.

13. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said operating element support has a surface region which is oriented obliquely upward, on which information about a moisture content in said food storage container in dependence on the position of said lid is displayed in a fixed position and information elements relating to food to be preferably stored in said food storage container with a respective lid position are configured on said display unit of said operating element.

14. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein:
said operating element having an operating element socket; and
said operating element has a terminating ring and said information disk is connected to said terminating ring in a rotationally fixed manner and accommodated in said operating element socket configured as a display unit support and disposed in a fixed position in said operating element support.

15. A domestic refrigeration appliance, comprising:
an internal container having walls defining an internal compartment for holding food and said internal compartment being bounded by said walls;
a lid;
a food storage container for the food, being disposed in said internal compartment and can be closed by said lid;
a mounting device mounting said lid in said internal compartment such that said lid can be raised and lowered to open and close said food storage container;
an operating element for actuating said lid, wherein it is possible for said operating element to be actuated on an actuation path to actuate said lid and for said lid to be positioned in a first closed position and at least in a second completely open position in dependence on a position of said operating element, said operating element having a display unit to display symbolic information in dependence on a position of said lid;
said display unit having an information disk with information elements configured in a fixed position and permanently thereon;
an operating element support;
said operating element having an operating element socket; and
said display unit having a cover plate covering said information disk and said cover plate is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to said operating element socket configured as a display unit support and disposed in a fixed position in said operating element support.

Assignees

• Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh

Inventors

• Becke Christoph
• Eicher Max
• Fink Juergen
• Hartwein Christine
• Lux Denis
• Tischer Thomas
• Wehlauch Marcus

Classifications

• F25D2400/36

  Visual displays · CPC title

• F25D29/005

  Mounting of control devices · CPC title

• F25D2317/04131

  Control means therefor · CPC title

• F25D25/025 Primary

  Drawers · CPC title

• F25D17/045

  Air flow control arrangements · CPC title