Oven door opening and closing device

US9074400B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Electrolux Home Products Corporation N. V. · BE

Inventors

• Behnam Mirshekari · Hannover, DE
• Klaus Walzlein · Schwabach, DE
• Simone Stephan · Ansbach, DE
• Klaus Kern · Adelshofen, DE
• Dietmar Hildner · Rothenburg ob der Tauber, DE
• Gerhard Schaff · Cadolzburg, DE
• Branko Ivanovic · Rothenburg ob der Tauber, DE
• Tobias Weber · Verl, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 20, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 7, 2015
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC E): Fixed Constructions
• CPC primary: E05Y2900/308
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An oven door opening and closing device includes at least one hinge connectable to an oven door and to an oven housing for realizing a predetermined pivoting opening and closing movement of the oven door relative to the oven housing between an open and a closed position. At least one closing force generating device generates a predetermined closing force, and a kinematic device is coupled to the hinge and to a moveable element in such a manner that the predetermined pivoting opening and closing movement of the hinge is converted into a predetermined reciprocating opening and closing movement of the moveable element. At least one damping system has a damper for generating a damping force which counteracts the closing movement of the movable element within a predetermined section, which corresponds to a predetermined angle section of the pivoting closing movement of the hinge shortly prior to the closed position.