Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Stefan Dänzer

Dietmar Hildner

Branko Ivanovic

Christoph Walther

Trevor Specht

Stefan Bayerlein

Erhard Käser

Erhard Kaser

Volkmar Bunzel

Willi Kranz

Marco Böckler

Richard Turek

Magdalena Moll

Norbert Dänzer

Reinhold Hofmann

Richard Wiesinger

Bernd Ebert

Friedrich Horn

Jessica Constanze Baschke

Herbert Michel

Gülsüm Feuerlein

Arnold Reiner

Jessica-Constanze Baschke

Gerhard Lehmann

Roland Schmidtell

Niklas Lönnhed

Wolfgang Beck

Harald Pörner

Horst Meister

Kurt Krämer

Manfred Von Dobschütz

Gülsüm Feurlein

Christina Löwe

Jürgen Kleinfeldt

Erhard Koitzsch

Gerhard Schäff

A household appliance is provided having a plurality of decorative external panels that provide reinforcement to and an exterior face of the appliance. At least one of the panels has a main body portion and an interior body portion integrally formed together from a common sheet of material. The interior body portion has a plurality of integral structural reinforcements formed from bending the sheet of material in the interior body portion adjacent the main body portion. The integral structural reinforcements can include a pair of opposed parallelly extending pillars each defining a columnar volume, and a pair of opposed rearwardly bent flanges each being bent to engage the pair of pillars to form a box frame adjacent to and integral with the main body portion. In preferred embodiments, the plurality of reinforced external panels together can define a chassis of the appliance.

Housing for household appliance with external panel having integrated reinforcement

A frame is provided for supporting a hob plate of a hob. The frame includes a frame body and at least one mounting tongue depending from the frame body and extending from an underside thereof for connecting the frame to a chassis of a cooking appliance.

Cooking hob frame

A deflecting element is arranged in an oven door and aligned adjacent the ventilation openings to inhibit accidental spills through the openings from fouling interior door components. The deflecting element can have a plurality of tiered blades with associated respective channels for guiding and accumulating spills. One or several of the blades can have an angled deflector portion for guiding overflow liquid to a subjacent blade, away from interior glass panels. When the oven door is rotated into an upright position, closed position, liquid accumulated in the respective channels is conducted to the lateral edges of the door, where it can be guided via ducts out the base of the door or otherwise collected in removable reservoirs.

Deflecting element for appliance doors

Oven and method for operating an oven, comprising an On/Off-key (), at least one key () for choosing a predefined oven function or for choosing a predefined oven program and/or for programming a not predefined oven program, at least one specific key (), which enables the user to start a preferred oven function or a preferred oven program from an Off-mode or a Standby-mode of the oven, wherein a running oven function or a running oven program can be saved by a memory unit as a preferred oven function or as a preferred oven program, when the specific key () is actuated at least for a predetermined period of time.

Oven and method for operating an oven

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Wettringen, Germany

Stefan Dänzer