Household device having a door and electrical contacts in the region of a door guide

US10168055B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BSH Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Martin Brunner · Pforzheim, DE
• Thomas Dankwardt · Karlsruhe, DE
• Manfred Hintermayer · Karlsruhe, DE
• Nils Platt · New Bern, US
• Thorsten Rausch · Karlsruhe, DE
• Marco Weinkötz · Bretten, DE
• Reinhard Wiedenmann · Weingarten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 2015
• Grant date: Jan 1, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F25D27/00
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A household appliance includes a housing having a receiving space for food and a storage space disposed below the receiving space. A door for closing an opening of the receiving space of the housing is insertable into the storage place when the door is opened and includes at least one electrical consumer, a first electrical contact coupled to the electrical consumer, and a housing-side second electrical contact electrically coupled to the first electrical contact for supply of electrical energy to the consumer as a function of an operating position of the door. The door is guided into the storage space by a guide apparatus which has a housing-side horizontal guide slot arranged laterally in relation to the door in a side wall of the storage space. The second electrical contact is arranged adjacent to the guide slot in the side wall of the storage space.