Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
  • E05D11/00—Additional features or accessories of hinges
  • E05D11/0054—Covers, e.g. for protection
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
  • E05D11/00—Additional features or accessories of hinges
  • E05D11/0081—Additional features or accessories of hinges for transmitting energy, e.g. electrical cable routing
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D23/00—General constructional features
  • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
  • F25D23/028—Details
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
  • E05D5/00—Construction of single parts, e.g. the parts for attachment
  • E05D5/02—Parts for attachment, e.g. flaps
  • E05D5/06—Bent flaps
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
  • E05Y2600/00—Mounting or coupling arrangements for elements provided for in this subclass
  • E05Y2600/40—Mounting location; Visibility of the elements
  • E05Y2600/41—Concealed
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
  • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
  • E05Y2900/30—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for domestic appliances
  • E05Y2900/31—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for domestic appliances for refrigerators
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D2323/00—General constructional features not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • F25D2323/02—Details of doors or covers not otherwise covered
  • F25D2323/024—Door hinges
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
  • F25D2400/40—Refrigerating devices characterised by electrical wiring

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a cover for covering a bearing angle, which is intended for storing a door of a household appliance such as in particular a refrigerator, and a household appliance, in which the bearing angle is covered with such a cover.
• Hinge system developed that allows a large opening angle of the door and absorbs the forces occurring at the door stop.
• the bearing bracket must be covered with a cover for aesthetic reasons, otherwise it will be visible to a user after opening the door. Usually, such a cover is attached to the bearing bracket.
• the problem arises that with positional tolerances of the bearing angle, the cover either warps or even breaks, or that unsightly joints between the cover and the control panel arise.
• the present invention is based on the object, the existing
• the cover for covering the bearing angle has a connecting device for connecting the cover to the household appliance itself and not to the bearing angle. This has the advantage that the cover can be accurately connected to the household appliance even if there are manufacturing tolerances at the bearing angle or the bearing pin connected to it. By attaching the cover directly to the household appliance can thus be avoided that undesirable column or an oblique arrangement of the cover occur, and it can be effected that the cover can be positively and flush matched to the household appliance.
• the connecting device comprises a plurality of latching hooks for engaging in a corresponding recess on the front of the household appliance, wherein the engagement of the latching hooks in the recess can preferably also be solved again.
• the cover has a free end adjacent the free end of the bearing bracket on which the bearing journal is arranged, which comprises a latching hook for engagement in the bearing bush , This allows additional support of the cover.
• the flexibility of the cover can be increased if this latching hook is connected via an elastic rib with the cover.
• the latching hook is formed so that a clearance between latching hook and recess is present, so that the latching hook is not fixed up and down. This allows an even better decoupling of the cover in the event that positional tolerances of the bearing angle are present.
• the recess is provided in a front panel of the household appliance, which preferably at least partially covers a control panel - which is provided for control purposes of the household appliance.
• Household appliance can be connected when the bearing bracket or its associated bearing pin manufacturing tolerances are available. By attaching the cover directly to the household appliance can thus be avoided that undesirable column or an oblique arrangement of the cover occur, and it can be effected that the cover can be positively and flush matched to the household appliance.
• the cover is einstoffig molded from plastic injection molding.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a household appliance with a door articulated via a bearing angle, in which the present invention can be used;
• FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the cover according to the invention before insertion into the household appliance
• Fig. 4 is a similar to Fig. 2 view with inserted cover.
• Fig. 1 shows a household appliance 9 with open door 9a.
• a bearing bracket 10 is fixed, at the free end 11, a bearing pin 12 is arranged.
• the bearing angle 10 with the bearing pin 12 is formed mirror-symmetrically about its horizontal longitudinal axis. That is, it only needs a design of the bearing bracket 10 to be made, which can then be attached to the right or left of the household appliance 9.
• the journal 12 in this embodiment has, but not necessarily, a generally rectangular cross section in the horizontal direction.
• a bearing bush 20 is attached, which rotatably supports the door 9a.
• an electrical cable 60 is passed through a feedthrough 22, which leads into the interior of the household appliance.
• 9 is led to a so-called control panel, with which, among other things, control and regulation functions can be performed.
• a recess 6 is provided into which a cover for the bearing bracket 10 can be locked.
• a front panel 8 covers at least part of the control panel.
• a lid 30 can be plugged in the direction shown by the arrow A on the first, upper free end 14 of the journal 12.
• the lid 30 is internally formed so that it can be positively fitted onto the bearing pin 12.
• a guide rib 34 which has substantially the same curvature as the bearing angle 10 in this area.
• the cover 30 has, on its side facing the cable 60, an inlet 32 for the cable 60, which then extends further down through the bearing bush 20.
• the cover 30 has a cable holding portion 33 which is formed as the end face or top of the lid 30 extending surface.
• a cover 40 according to the invention has been pushed onto the bearing bracket 10.
• the cover 40 which is molded from plastic injection molding, has schematically indicated latching hooks 44, which are locked in the recess 6 in the front of the household appliance 9.
• the latching hooks 44 form a connection device 42.
• the cover 40 is not plugged or clamped on the bearing bracket 10 itself, but is locked to the recess 6 in the front panel 8 of the household appliance 9.
• the cover engages flush, accurate and without disturbing joints or slots in the front panel. This can be ensured even if the bearing bracket 10 is arranged offset due to positional tolerances vertically, horizontally or in an oblique direction.
• the cover 40 has at its free end 41 via a resilient rib 46 with its connected latching hook 45 which engages loosely, so with play, in a corresponding recess 24 of the bearing bush 20 and thus a portion 26 of the bearing bush 20, which has a circular arc-shaped cross-section and through which the cable 60 is then guided further down, engages under.
• the lid 30 ensures preliminary positioning of the cable 60 while the cover 40 then definitively positions the cable 60.
• Fig. 3 shows the cover 40 according to the invention with the inserted into the household appliance 9 side up.
• There six locking hooks 44 are provided which can be snapped into the recess 6 in the front panel 8 of the household appliance 9.
• the cover 40 has a latching hook 45 which is attached via an elastic rib 46.
• the latching hook 45 serves the loose and with vertical play afflicted engagement in the recess 24 shown in Fig. 4 in the bearing bush 20. This prevents on the one hand, when latched into the recess 6 cover 40 whose free end 41 of the bearing bush 20th solves, but on the other hand, no force exerted on the cover 40, if positional tolerances of the journal 12 are present.
• the latching hook 45 may optionally serve as an additional support for the cover 40.
• Fig. 4 shows the plugged onto the bearing bracket 10 and this encompassing cover 40 and the bearing bracket 10 (or its bearing pin 12) on which the bearing bush 20 and the cover 30 are attached.
• cover 40 snugly snapped into the front panel 8 of the household appliance 9 and is flush with this.
• the transition to the household appliance 9 fixed part of the bearing bracket 10 is flush.
• the bearing bushing 20 and the cover 30 are designed so that they completely enclose the bearing journal 12 - at least on the side accessible to a viewer.

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• Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
• Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
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• General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Refrigerator Housings (AREA)
• Closures For Containers (AREA)
• Pivots And Pivotal Connections (AREA)
• Casings For Electric Apparatus (AREA)
• Devices That Are Associated With Refrigeration Equipment (AREA)

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