Food-receiving container having a ventilation device on a handle of a front panel, and household refrigeration appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12007158-B2
Application number	US-202117375044-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2021
Priority date	Jul 23, 2020
Publication date	Jun 11, 2024
Grant date	Jun 11, 2024

Abstract

A food-receiving container for a household refrigeration appliance includes a shell for receiving food and a ventilation device for carrying out an air exchange between the surroundings and the interior of the food-receiving container. The shell has a front panel on which a handle is disposed. The handle is disposed in an upper region of the front panel, when viewed in the vertical direction of the food-receiving container. The ventilation device is disposed on the handle. A household refrigeration appliance having the food-receiving container is also provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A food-receiving container for a household refrigeration appliance, the food-receiving container comprising:
an interior of the food-receiving container and a vertical direction of the food-receiving container;
a shell for receiving food, said shell having a front panel with upper region as viewed in the vertical direction of the food-receiving container;
a handle disposed at said upper region of said front panel; and
a ventilation device disposed at said handle for carrying out an air exchange between the surroundings and said interior of the food-receiving container.

2. The food-receiving container according to claim 1 , wherein said handle has a handle recess configured to be gripped from below, said ventilation device has sub-components, and at least said sub-components of said ventilation device are received partly or entirely in said handle recess.

3. The food-receiving container according to claim 2 , wherein said ventilation device has a ventilation slider displaceably mounted in said handle recess for opening and closing said ventilation device.

4. The food-receiving container according to claim 3 , wherein said ventilation device has a rail-shaped carrier part being separate from said ventilation slider and from said shell, said carrier part is disposed on said shell, and said ventilation slider is movably disposed on said carrier part.

5. The food-receiving container according to claim 4 , wherein:
said handle has walls defining said handle recess;
said carrier part is at least one of U-shaped in cross section or directly fastened to said walls defining said handle recess; and
said ventilation slider is directly mounted on said carrier part.

6. The food-receiving container according to claim 4 , wherein said ventilation slider has a top wall, said carrier part has a top wall, and symbols characterizing different ventilation operating states are disposed on at least one of said top wall of said ventilation slider or said top wall of said carrier part.

7. The food-receiving container according to claim 2 , wherein:
said shell has a shell wall;
said ventilation device has at least one ventilation opening integrally formed in said shell wall; and
said ventilation device has a ventilation slider for uncovering and covering said at least one ventilation opening for opening and closing said ventilation device.

8. The food-receiving container according to claim 7 , wherein said handle has a rear handle recess wall defining said handle recess, and said ventilation opening is formed in said rear handle recess wall.

9. The food-receiving container according to claim 7 , wherein said ventilation slider has at least one ventilation opening configured to at least partially overlap said at least one ventilation opening in said shell wall in an open position of said ventilation device.

10. The food-receiving container according to claim 7 , wherein said ventilation slider has an L-shaped or U-shaped cross section.

11. The food-receiving container according to claim 7 , wherein said ventilation slider has a further handle.

12. The food-receiving container according to claim 7 , wherein said handle has walls defining said handle recess, and at least one snap-in device directly fastens said ventilation slider to said walls defining said handle recess.

13. The food-receiving container according to claim 12 , wherein said ventilation slider is displaceably mounted on at least one of said walls by said at least one snap-in device.

14. The food-receiving container according to claim 1 , wherein said ventilation device has a display unit for displaying ventilation operating states of said ventilation device, and said display unit is disposed in said handle.

15. The food-receiving container according to claim 14 , wherein said handle has an upper handle recess wall on which a displayed ventilation operating state is able to be observed.

16. The food-receiving container according to claim 1 , wherein:
said ventilation device has a sub-component;
said shell has a base body with a front side;
said front panel is movably disposed on said front side of said base body; and
said base body has at least one hook engaging in said front panel in a basic position of said front panel on said base body for retaining said sub-component of said ventilation device on said front panel.

17. The food-receiving container according to claim 1 , which further comprises a lid of the food-receiving container, said lid being separate from said shell and configured to be positioned onto said shell for closing said shell.

18. The food-receiving container according to claim 1 , which further comprises symbols characterizing different ventilation operating states of said ventilation device.

19. A household refrigeration appliance, comprising a food-receiving container according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh

Inventors

• Cizik Herbert
• Eicher Max
• Heidenfelder Ingo
• Kessler Andreas
• Korte Andreas
• Kupfer Philipp
• Ramos Alzamora Carlos
• Staud Ralph
• Tischer Thomas

Classifications

• F25D25/025 Primary

  Drawers · CPC title

• F25D2317/04131

  Control means therefor · CPC title

• F25D17/045 Primary

  Air flow control arrangements · CPC title

• F25D17/042

  Air treating means within refrigerated spaces (air conditioning in general F24F) · CPC title

• F25D23/028

  Details · CPC title