Method for adjusting the position of a door of a household refrigeration appliance, and household refrigeration appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10295246-B2
Application number	US-201715834648-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2017
Priority date	Dec 7, 2016
Publication date	May 21, 2019
Grant date	May 21, 2019

Abstract

A method for adjusting a position of a door on a housing of a household refrigeration appliance to change a placement of the door while located on the housing, includes separating a door leaf of the door from a front flange of the housing in a depth direction of the household refrigeration appliance by a gap in a closed state of the door. A tool is inserted into the gap and a readjustment element, which can be accessed through the gap, is readjusted by using the tool in such a way that the position of the door relative to the housing is changed in dependence on the readjustment of the readjustment element. A household refrigeration appliance is also provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for adjusting a position of a door on a housing of a household refrigeration appliance to change a placement of the door while located on the housing, the method comprising the following steps:
separating a door leaf of the door from a front flange of the housing by a gap in a depth direction of the household refrigeration appliance in a closed state of the door;
inserting a tool into the gap; and
using the tool to readjust a readjustment element being accessible through the gap for changing the position of the door relative to the housing in dependence on the readjustment of the readjustment element.

2. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises providing a lateral opening of the gap in a width direction of the household refrigeration appliance, introducing the tool laterally in a width direction into an access channel of the gap, and engaging the readjustment element with the tool.

3. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises readjusting the readjustment element in a width direction of the household refrigeration appliance in order to change the position of the door relative to the housing.

4. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises:
using a bearing device to pivotably mount the door on the housing;
providing the bearing device with a bearing angle adjustment plate being rotatably connected to the door and with a separate bearing angle base plate being statically located on the housing;
using the readjustment element to connect the bearing angle adjustment plate to the bearing angle base plate; and
moving the bearing angle adjustment plate and the bearing angle base plate linearly relative to each other by operating the readjustment element in order to effect a change in the position of the door relative to the housing.

5. The method according to claim 4 , which further comprises moving the bearing angle adjustment plate linearly in a width direction of the household refrigeration appliance relative to the bearing angle base plate in order to change the position of the door relative to the housing.

6. The method according to claim 4 , which further comprises:
providing the bearing angle base plate with an engagement peg passing through an opening in the bearing angle adjustment plate;
connecting the readjustment element to a section of the engagement peg passing through the opening and to an engagement peg of the bearing angle adjustment plate; and
aligning the engagement peg of the bearing angle adjustment plate and the engagement peg of the bearing angle base plate parallel to each other.

7. The method according to claim 4 , which further comprises fixing an adjusted relative position between the bearing angle adjustment plate and the bearing angle base plate.

8. The method according to claim 7 , which further comprises tightening a locking screw in order to fix the adjusted position.

9. The method according to claim 8 , which further comprises tightening the locking screw in a direction perpendicular to a readjustment direction of the plates.

10. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises adjusting the position of the door when the door is in the closed state.

11. The method according to claim 1 , which further comprises providing an adjustment screw as the readjustment element, and adjusting the position of the door by rotating the adjustment screw.

12. A household refrigeration appliance, comprising:
a housing having a front and a front flange;
a storage space disposed in said housing for storing food;
a door pivotably disposed on said housing for closing said storage space at said front of said housing;
said door and said front flange forming a gap therebetween at least in a closed state of said door, said gap providing an access channel;
a tool to be introduced into said access channel; and
an adjustment device being accessible by said tool through said access channel for adjusting a position of said door relative to said housing, said adjustment device having a readjustment element located for direct engagement and readjustment by said tool introduced into said access channel for adjusting said position of said door in dependence on said readjustment by said tool.

Assignees

• Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh

Inventors

• Heisswolf Tobias
• Kraemer Simon
• Raab Alfred
• Schmid Christian

Classifications

• E05D7/0415

  with adjusting drive means · CPC title

• F25D23/028 Primary

  Details · CPC title

• F25D2500/02

  Geometry problems · CPC title

• E05D3/02

  with one pin · CPC title

• E05D7/0423

  Screw-and-nut mechanisms (E05D7/0407, E05D7/043 take precedence) · CPC title