Household refrigeration appliance including a drawer, and method for producing the household refrigeration appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11408664-B2
Application number	US-201916978829-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2019
Priority date	Mar 6, 2018
Publication date	Aug 9, 2022
Grant date	Aug 9, 2022

Abstract

A household refrigeration appliance includes a thermally insulated body delimiting a coolable interior space, a refrigeration device cooling the interior space, a drawer with a front panel to be pushed into and pulled out of the interior space to deposit and remove food, and a display on the front panel. The front panel closes the interior space when the drawer is pushed in, and the upper region of the front panel has an upwardly open recessed grip with a front wall portion to be gripped from the rear and an oblique recessed grip portion transitioning into the wall portion to be gripped from the rear. The display is in a depression of the grip portion and the front panel includes a semitransparent cover completely covering the display through which displayed information shines when the display is switched on. A method for producing the domestic refrigeration device is also provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A household refrigeration appliance, comprising:
a thermally insulated body delimiting a coolable interior space;
a refrigeration device for cooling said coolable interior space;
a drawer to be pushed into said coolable interior space and at least partially pulled out of said coolable interior space for depositing and removing food, said drawer having a front panel closing said coolable interior space in a pushed-in state of said drawer;
said front panel including an upper region having an upwardly-open recessed grip, said recessed grip including a front wall portion to be rearwardly gripped and an oblique recessed grip portion transitioning into said front wall portion, and said front panel including a semitransparent cover; and
a display provided on said front panel and disposed in a depression in said oblique recessed grip portion, said display being completely covered by said semitransparent cover permitting displayed information to shine through said semitransparent cover in a switched on state of said display;
said drawer including a spring being separate from and pressing against a bottom of said depression, said spring pressing said display against said semitransparent cover.

2. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said recessed grip extends at least across a majority of a width of said front panel.

3. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said semitransparent cover extends entirely across said oblique recessed grip portion.

4. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said depression and said display extend along a partial region of said recessed grip relative to a width of said front panel.

5. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said depression and said display extend along less than one-third of said recessed grip relative to a width of said front panel.

6. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said semitransparent cover is a semitransparent plate or a semitransparent glass plate.

7. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said semitransparent cover has a surface facing said display, said surface being imprinted or provided with a foil to obtain a semitransparent property of said semitransparent cover.

8. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said semitransparent cover has a semitransparency limiting or preventing said display from shining through said semitransparent cover in a switched off state of said display.

9. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said semitransparent cover is fixed in said recessed grip by at least one of an adhesive or an adhesive tape.

10. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 9 , which further comprises a protective foil fixed to and extending along an entire width of a rear of said display.

11. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said spring is a metal spring.

12. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said display is part of an input/display device configured for setting and displaying an operating parameter of said coolable interior space associated with said drawer.

13. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 12 , wherein after inputting the operating parameter and pushing said drawer into said coolable interior space subsequently to said input, a further input is possible automatically only by unlocking said input/display device.

14. A method for producing a household refrigeration appliance, the method comprising:
providing the household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 ;
placing said display in said depression; and
fixing said semitransparent cover in said recessed grip with said semitransparent cover completely covering said depression and said display.

15. The household refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said front wall portion and said oblique recessed grip portion together form one continuous unbroken upper surface and one continuous unbroken lower surface.

Assignees

• Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh

Inventors

• Feldmeyer Andreas
• Kraemer Simon
• Oefele Sandra
• Osbar Bernd
• Wengert Daniel

Classifications

• F25D23/028 Primary

  Details · CPC title

• F25D25/025 Primary

  Drawers · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• F25D23/021

  Sliding doors · CPC title