Door lock for a dishwashing machine

US9101259B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA · DE

Inventors

• Albert Dirnberger · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE
• Georg Spiessl · Willhof, DE
• Peter Nitsche · Beilngries, DE
• Markus Lang · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 2012
• Grant date: Aug 11, 2015
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T292/0817
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A door lock for a dishwashing machine includes a lock housing, a pair of closing arms being held in and projecting from the lock housing and having free arm portions projecting from the lock housing that are deflectable relative to one another from a relative normal position in a first deflection direction counter to the action of a resetting spring arrangement, and a closing mouth, into which the free arm portions engage during closing of the door, having deflection surfaces encountered by the free arm portions during engagement into the closing mouth and which bring about a relative deflection of the free arm portions counter to the resetting action of the resetting spring arrangement, where the free arm portions during further engagement is move past the deflection surfaces and in so doing experience an at least partial resetting in the direction of their relative normal position.