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Patent No.:

US 12379150 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025

Filed:

May. 02, 2023

Method for determining an actuation of a door of a household appliance by a user, apparatus for this purpose and also household appliance having the apparatus

Applicant:

Bsh Hausgeräte Gmbh, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Peter Hellwig, Dischingen, DE;

Simon Mayer, Dornstadt, DE;

Assignee:

BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich, DE;

Attorneys:

Laurence A. Greenberg

Werner H. Stemer

Ralph E. Locher

Primary Examiner:

Justin B Rephann

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E05F 15/616 (2015.01); F25D 23/02 (2006.01); F25D 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 23/028 (2013.01); E05F 15/616 (2015.01); F25D 29/005 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/31 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method determines an actuation of a door of a household appliance by a user. The door closes an access opening of a body of the appliance to an interior space by virtue of an elastic seal that is arranged on the door inner side and braces circumferentially against a region of an edge of the access opening. A plunger is moved by a drive unit until a plunger head braces against the door inner side. The plunger is influenced into an opening direction of the door by the drive unit using a bracing force that is smaller than a force for opening the door. An arbitrary stroke of the plunger is detected by a sensor and a sensor signal is allocated to the detected stroke. The sensor signal is compared with a comparison value and the actuation by the user is determined in dependence upon the comparison.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Hellwig, Peter. (2025). Method for determining an actuation of a door of a household appliance by a user, apparatus for this purpose and also household appliance having the apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 12379150). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12379150

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