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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023
Filed:
May. 15, 2020
Electrolux Home Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Stefan Bayerlein, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, DE;
Stefan Dänzer, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, DE;
Reinhold Hofmann, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, DE;
Norbert Dänzer, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, DE;
Electrolux Home Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
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.