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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
May. 30, 2012
William Bringe, Powell, TN (US);
Samuel Harward, Knoxville, TN (US);
Rose Marie Parker, Caryville, TN (US);
Michael Rutherford, Duff, TN (US);
William Bringe, Powell, TN (US);
Samuel Harward, Knoxville, TN (US);
Rose Marie Parker, Caryville, TN (US);
Michael Rutherford, Duff, TN (US);
BSH Home Appliances Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A household appliance includes a warming drawer housing having an interior chamber, and a warming drawer module in the interior chamber. The module includes a support plate, a glass heating element forming a floor surface of the module for receiving items to be warmed, a gasket strip covering an upper perimeter surface of the glass heating element, a frame disposed over the gasket strip and the upper perimeter surface, and a first electrical connection disposed adjacent to an edge of the frame. The frame includes a drip guard projecting outward from the edge of the frame and overhanging the first electrical connection to guide a liquid from a surface of the frame or the glass heating element away from the first electrical connection such that the liquid does not come into contact with the first electrical connection.