Domestic appliance with an appliance component having a handle recess accessible from above

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10480847-B2
Application number	US-201615774609-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2016
Priority date	Nov 18, 2015
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

A domestic appliance includes a housing and an appliance component which is disposed on the housing, is separate from the housing and is movable relative to the housing. A handle which is disposed on the appliance component has a handle recess which can be gripped from above and which is delimited by a front wall of the handle and a slanted bottom wall of the handle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A domestic appliance, comprising:
a housing;
an appliance component disposed on said housing being separate from said housing and being movable relative to said housing;
a handle disposed on said appliance component, said handle having a front wall and a slanted bottom wall, and said handle having a handle recess configured to be gripped from above, said handle recess being delimited by said front wall of said handle and said slanted bottom wall of said handle;
said bottom wall being a separate insert introduced into said appliance component; and
said appliance component having a slanted receiving bed for receiving said insert, said receiving bed having at least one resilient tongue disposed so as to press on said insert upon said insert being assembled in an end state in said receiving bed.

2. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said front wall has a lower edge, and said bottom wall ends with a front edge on said lower edge of said front wall.

3. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said bottom wall is disposed at an angle between 25° and 65° relative to said front wall.

4. The domestic appliance according to claim 3 , wherein said front wall is oriented at a right angle relative to said bottom wall.

5. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said bottom wall is disposed at an angle between 30° and 50° relative to said front wall.

6. The domestic appliance according to claim 5 , wherein said front wall is oriented at a right angle relative to said bottom wall.

7. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said bottom wall has a side facing said handle recess, said bottom wall has at least one of an electronic control unit or an electronic display unit on said side facing said handle recess and information is displayed on said bottom wall.

8. The domestic appliance according to claim 7 , wherein said electronic control unit has touch-sensitive control elements or said electronic display unit is a TFT display.

9. The domestic appliance according to claim 7 , wherein said electronic control unit has touch-sensitive control elements and said electronic display unit is a TFT display.

10. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said bottom wall and said front wall of said handle each have a respective upper end, and said upper end of said bottom wall is disposed further up than said upper end of said front wall in a vertical direction of said appliance component.

11. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said bottom wall is made from glass.

12. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said handle recess has a width direction and opposite ends, and said handle recess is delimited in said width direction on said opposite ends by boundary walls.

13. The domestic appliance according to claim 12 , wherein said boundary walls are triangular.

14. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein at least said front wall of said handle is integrated into said appliance component.

15. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said bottom wall is disposed in a non-destructive, detachable manner on said appliance component.

16. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said appliance component includes a one-piece basic component in which said handle recess is integrated as a molding, and said basic component has a said slanted receiving bed into which said bottom wall is countersunk as said insert.

17. The domestic appliance according to claim 16 , wherein:
said receiving bed has a first longitudinal side with an undercut;
said insert has a front side and a first longitudinal edge disposed at a slant relative to said front side and penetrating said undercut;
said insert has a second longitudinal edge; and
said receiving bed has a second longitudinal side with said at least one resilient tongue.

18. The domestic appliance according to claim 16 , wherein said receiving bed has a longitudinal side with an undercut, and said insert has a front side and first longitudinal edge disposed at a slant relative to said front side and penetrating said undercut.

19. The domestic appliance according to claim 16 , wherein said insert has a longitudinal edge, and said receiving bed has a longitudinal side with said at least one resilient tongue.

20. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein:
said appliance component has a front wall with a front side;
said front wall of said handle is integrated in said front wall of said appliance component; and
said front wall of said handle has a front side disposed flush with said front side of said front wall of said appliance component.

21. The domestic appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said appliance component is a drawer or a door.

22. A domestic appliance, comprising:
a housing;
an appliance component disposed on said housing being separate from said housing and being movable relative to said housing;
a handle disposed on said appliance component, said handle having a front wall and a slanted bottom wall, and said handle having a handle recess configured to be gripped from above, said handle recess being delimited by said front wall of said handle and said slanted bottom wall of said handle;
said bottom wall being a separate insert introduced into said appliance component, said insert having a slanted edge; and
said appliance component having a slanted receiving bed for receiving said insert, said receiving bed having an undercut receiving said slanted edge.

Assignees

• Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh

Inventors

• Heisswolf Tobias
• Kraemer Simon
• Raab Alfred
• Schmid Christian
• Staud Ralph
• Tischer Thomas
• Kleinlein Philipp
• Kessler Andreas

Classifications

• F25D23/028 Primary

  Details · CPC title

• F25D2400/36

  Visual displays · CPC title

• F25D23/02 Primary

  Doors; Covers (F25D23/08 takes precedence {locks or fastenings E05B65/0042}) · CPC title