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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2016
Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh, Munich, DE;
Adolf Heydel, Waldenbuch, DE;
Nikolaus Schmidt, Sindelfingen, DE;
BSH Hausgeraete GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A refrigerator has a heat-insulated carcass which has an inner container with a cool able interior space for storing food, a refrigeration device for cooling the interior space, an electromechanical opening assisting device, and a door leaf mounted to the carcass for opening and closing the interior space. The opening assisting device contains an actuator configured to open the door leaf automatically by displacement of a control body. The actuator has a displaceable base body, a plunger mounted in the base body as the control body and an overload protection device arresting the plunger in the base body. The overload protection device fixes the plunger rigidly in the base body, for as long as an impact force acting on the plunger remains smaller than a trigger force and to release the plunger from the base body as soon as an impact force acting on the plunger exceeds the trigger force.