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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2022
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Nicola Sartori, Barasso, IT;
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US);
Abstract
A door opener for a domestic appliance includes a motor and a pusher member having a rack portion. The pusher member is displaceable between a retracted position and an extended position in which it is engageable with a door of a domestic appliance in order to open the door, and a gear train connected between the output of the motor and the rack portion of the pusher member, which causes displacement of the pusher member in response to operation of the motor. The gear train comprises an overload clutch which comprises a first gear and a second gear mounted coaxially with, and rotatable with respect to, the first gear. The second gear comprises a plurality of resiliently deformable fingers, one end of each finger being releasably engageable with a complementarily-shaped portion of the first gear.
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