Door locking device for electric apparatus

US6145898A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ellenberger & Poensgen GmbH

Inventors

• Oswald Onderka · Altdorf, DE
• Günther Hengelein · Altdorf, DE
• Hubert Harrer · Böblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 30, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 14, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 30, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/696
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A door locking device for an electrical apparatus, in particular a household appliance, including a lock having a locking slide, supported in the lock and movable back and forth between an opening position and a closing position, having a blocking device for arresting the locking slide in its closing position, and having a locking tang (1, 51) which drops into the lock as the appliance door is being closed and once the appliance door is in its closed state is in engagement with the locking slide, in which a gear mechanism is permanently operative between the locking slide and the locking tang, for converting the drop-in motion of the locking tang upon closure or the dropping-out motion of the locking tang upon opening of the appliance door into a displacement motion of the locking slide (9, 69) once the blocking device is deactivated, and having a compulsory guidance of the locking tang in the lock in such a way that every opening motion of the appliance door from any arbitrary door position, once the blocking device is deactivated, necessarily moves the locking slide in the direction of its opening position.