Multi-door refrigerator comprising a heatable door bar

US8220288B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Alexander Görz · Aalen, DE
• Karl-Friedrich Laible · Langenau, DE
• Hans-Philipp Reitz · Giengen an der Brenz, DE
• Helmut Steichele · Lauingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 6, 2007
• Grant date: Jul 17, 2012
• Expiry date: Aug 24, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F25D2400/40
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A refrigerator including a body unit and a pair of doors which are attached on opposite sides of the body unit and which jointly delimit a first internal space, wherein a first door of said pair supports a bar that extends into the internal space when the first door is in a closed position, said bar having a locating face, against which a rear side of the second door fits closely when both doors are in a closed position, and containing an electrical heating device, the refrigerator including a control circuit for the electrical heating device including at least one electric contact through which a current supply circuit of the electrical heating device is routed, the at least one electrical contact being attached to the body unit and conductively connected to a complementary contact disposed on the first door when the first door is closed.