Home cooking appliance with a side swing oven door having a friction hinge

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9631819-B2
Application number	US-201314029935-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 18, 2013
Priority date	Sep 18, 2013
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

A home cooking appliance with a side swing door is provided. The home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking cavity, and a side swing door movable about at least one hinge between a closed position and an open position to provide access to the cooking cavity. The at least one hinge includes a friction hinge configured to impede rotational motion of the side swing door.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A home cooking appliance comprising:
a housing having a cooking cavity; and
a side swing door movable about at least one hinge between a closed position and an open position to provide access to the cooking cavity,
wherein the at least one hinge includes a friction hinge configured to impede rotational motion of the side swing door,
wherein the friction hinge is a constant torque friction hinge configured to provide a first constant torque throughout a part of a first range of motion in an opening direction and a second constant torque throughout a part of a second range of motion in an closing direction of the side swing door, and
wherein the first constant torque is different than the second torque, and to minimize an amount of latching force needed to secure the side swing door in the second closed position, or eliminate the need to provide a latching mechanism.

2. The home cooking appliance of claim 1 , wherein the friction hinge is a constant torque friction hinge configured to provide a first constant torque throughout an entire first range of motion in an opening direction and a second constant torque throughout an entire second range of motion in a closing direction of the side swing door, and
wherein the first constant torque is different than the second constant torque.

3. The home cooking appliance of claim 1 , wherein the friction hinge further comprises an integral device configured to provide a mechanical assistance force to a movement of the side swing door.

4. The home cooking appliance of claim 1 , further comprising:
a device configured to provide a mechanical assistance force to a movement of the side swing door.

5. The home cooking appliance of claim 1 , further comprising an additional hinge configured to provide at least one of a predetermined closing force and a predetermined opening force on the side swing door.

Assignees

• Bsh Home Appliances Corp

Inventors

• Gayle James
• Geiger Joseph
• May George
• Rueter Felix

Classifications

• E05C1/08

  with latching action · CPC title

• F24C15/023 Primary

  Mounting of doors, e.g. hinges, counterbalancing · CPC title

• F24C15/02

  Doors specially adapted for stoves or ranges · CPC title

• E05D11/08

  Friction devices between relatively-movable hinge parts (E05D7/086 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E05F1/08

  spring-actuated {, e.g. for horizontally sliding wings (counterbalancing sliding or lifting wings E05D; springs per se F16F, e.g. gas-springs F16F9/00)} · CPC title