EP2093495A2 - Door guide device for household device - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a door guiding unit (209) with a guiding surface (210) that is partially formed from plastic. The door guiding unit has a connecting link (44) that is provided to guide a household device-door or to insert larger part of the door into a storage space by a sliding movement. A damping unit is coupled with the door guiding unit in an installed condition. The door guiding unit exhibits a catching unit (216) that fastens the damping unit in the installed condition. The door guiding unit exhibits a partial region that is formed from polypropylene and/or long glass fiber.

Description

The invention relates to a household appliance door guide device according to the preamble of claim 1.

From the publication WO 03/073004 A1 For example, a domestic appliance door guide device is known having a door and a slide track which is intended to guide a door during a movement.

The object of the invention is in particular to provide a generic device with improved properties in terms of ease of manufacture.

The object is achieved by the features of claim 1, while advantageous embodiments and modifications of the invention can be taken from the dependent claims.

The invention relates to a household appliance door guide device with at least one door guide means, which has at least one guide surface.

It is proposed that the guide surface is at least partially formed from a plastic. With an embodiment according to the invention, a simple manufacturability can be achieved. A "guide surface" is to be understood in particular as meaning a surface which indirectly and / or directly guides a door during movement of the door relative to the door guide means in at least one specific direction predetermined by the door guide means. A "plastic" is to be understood in particular as meaning a substance which contains polymers which at least partially have organic atomic groups. In particular, a precise guidance can take place through the guide surface and, in particular, a cost-effective design can be achieved.

It is also proposed that the door guide means comprises a gate which is intended to guide a household appliance door. This allows a comfortable operation of the appliance door can be achieved.

Preferably, the scenery is intended to introduce the home appliance door at least to a large extent by means of a sliding movement in a storage space. Under the fact that the appliance door is introduced "to a large extent" in the storage space, should be understood in particular that at least a portion of the appliance door, which at least sixty percent, in particular at least seventy-five percent and more preferably at least ninety percent of a vertical extension of the appliance door in a closed Form state in an operating position, is arranged in the storage space. Thus, a simple Verstaubarkeit the household appliance door can be achieved.

Advantageously, the domestic appliance door guide device has at least one damping means, which is coupled in at least one mounted state with the door guide means. Hereby, a simple construction can be achieved.

Preferably, the damping means is at least partially disposed in a receiving region of the door guide means in at least one mounted state. In this way, a stable construction can be achieved.

It is also proposed that the door guide means comprises a locking means which secures the damping means in at least one mounted state. As a result, components can be saved.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the door guide means has at least one rib structure. In this way, a high stability can be achieved in a cost-effective design. A particularly high stability and in particular rigidity can be achieved if the rib structure is honeycomb-shaped.

It is further proposed that the domestic appliance door guide device has at least one sliding surface of the door guide means and at least one bearing means, which is intended to slide on at least one movement relative to the door guide means on the sliding surface. As a result, a precise movement of the bearing means can be achieved. Advantageously, the sliding surface is formed as part of a cylinder jacket, whereby the bearing means can perform a user-friendly movement.

Advantageously, the sliding surface serves to slide the bearing means in at least one state of wear. This allows a long life can be achieved.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the door guide means is at least partially formed of polypropylene and long glass fibers. In this way, a cost-effective design can be achieved with a stable construction. In particular, the door guide means may comprise at least one of the plastics PBT GF30 or PA6.6 GF30.

Preferably, the door guide means on a fastening means, which is intended to fasten a cable. As a result, components can advantageously be saved.

Furthermore, it is proposed that the domestic appliance door guide device has at least one rolling bearing with a metal outer ring, which is guided in at least one operating operation of the guide surface. In this way, a low-friction guiding operation can be achieved. In particular, a quiet operating noise is made possible.

Advantageously, the door guide means on a receiving area, which is intended to receive at least one actuating means. Hereby, a compact design can be achieved.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the door guide means is integrally formed of plastic. This allows a simple installation can be achieved. By the fact that the door guide means is "integrally formed" should be understood in particular that it is made of a single cast or is made of a spray and / or is formed in one piece and / or formed by a component.

Preferably, the domestic appliance door guide device has at least one storage space, in which a domestic appliance door is introduced in at least one state of use by means of the door guide means at least to a large extent. In this way, a compact arrangement can be achieved.

Further advantages emerge from the following description of the drawing. In the drawings, embodiments of the invention are shown. The drawing, the description and the claims contain numerous features in combination. The expert will conveniently consider the features individually and summarize meaningful further combinations.

Fig. 1

ein schematisiert dargestelltes, als Backofen ausgebildetes Hausge- rät mit einer erfindungsgemäßen Hausgerätvorrichtung bei entnom- mener Hausgerätetür,

Fig. 2

ein Ende der Hausgerätetür,

Fig. 3

eine schematische Darstellung des Hausgeräts in einem unvollstän- dig montierten Zustand, insbesondere ohne die Hausgerätetür,

Fig. 4

eine schematische Darstellung einer Lagereinheit,

Fig. 5

ein Drehmomentübertragungsmittel der Lagereinheit,

Fig. 6

eine Ansicht des Endes der Hausgerätetür mit einer Achseneinheit bei demontierten Innen- und Zwischenscheiben schräg unten,

Fig. 7

eine schematische Darstellung der von der Lagereinheit abgekoppel- ten Hausgerätetür ohne eine Zwischenscheibe und eine Innenschei- be,

Fig. 8

eine schematische Darstellung der geschlossenen Hausgerätetür in einer seitlichen Ansicht,

Fig. 9

eine schematische Darstellung der offenen Hausgerätetür in einer seitlichen Ansicht,

Fig. 10

eine schematische Darstellung eines Entriegelungszustands einer Verriegelungseinheit,

Fig. 11

eine schematische Darstellung einer Verriegelungsposition der Ver- riegelungseinheit,

Fig. 12

eine schematische Darstellung des Drehmomentübertragungsmit- tels und der Hausgerätetür in einer geöffneten Position,

Fig. 13

eine Arretierungseinheit der Hausgerätvorrichtung mit einem Fest- stellmittel in einer Ausgangsstellung, wobei sich die Hausgerätvor- richtung in einem teilweise demontierten Zustand befindet,

Fig. 14

eine Arretierungseinheit der Hausgerätvorrichtung mit einem Fest- stellmittel in einer Arretierungsposition, wobei sich die Hausgerätvor- richtung in einem teilweise demontierten Zustand befindet,

Fig. 15

ein unteres Ende des Hausgeräts mit einem Teil der teilweise ge- öffneten Hausgerätetür und einem Betätigungsmittel der Arretie- rungseinheit,

Fig. 16

ein Führungsmittel und ein gehäusefestes Führelement der Haus- gerätvorrichtung,

Fig. 17

ein Türführungsmittel einer Hausgerätetürführungsvorrichtung des Hausgeräts,

Fig. 18

eine Teilansicht des Türführungsmittels,

Fig. 19

ein an dem Türführungsmittel befestigtes Lagermittel und das Tür- führungsmittel und

Fig. 20

eine Außenseite des Türführungsmittels.

Show it:

Fig. 1

a schematically illustrated, designed as an oven domestic appliance with a domestic appliance device according to the invention with the household appliance door removed,

Fig. 2

an end of the household appliance door,

Fig. 3

2 a schematic representation of the domestic appliance in an incompletely mounted state, in particular without the appliance door,

Fig. 4

a schematic representation of a storage unit,

Fig. 5

a torque transmitting means of the bearing unit,

Fig. 6

a view of the end of the appliance door with an axis unit with disassembled inner and intermediate plates obliquely below,

Fig. 7

2 a schematic representation of the household appliance door uncoupled from the storage unit without an intermediate pane and an inner pane,

Fig. 8

a schematic representation of the closed appliance door in a side view,

Fig. 9

a schematic representation of the open household appliance door in a side view,

Fig. 10

a schematic representation of a release state of a locking unit,

Fig. 11

a schematic representation of a locking position of the locking unit,

Fig. 12

1 is a schematic representation of the torque-transmitting device and the appliance door in an open position;

Fig. 13

a locking unit of the domestic appliance device with a locking means in a starting position, wherein the domestic appliance device is in a partially disassembled state,

Fig. 14

a locking unit of the domestic appliance device with a locking means in a locking position, the domestic appliance being in a partially disassembled state,

Fig. 15

a lower end of the domestic appliance with a part of the partially opened domestic appliance door and an actuating means of the locking unit,

Fig. 16

a guide means and a housing-fixed guide element of the home appliance device,

Fig. 17

a door guide means of a household appliance door guide device of the household appliance,

Fig. 18

a partial view of the door guide means,

Fig. 19

a bearing means fixed to the door guide means and the door guide means and

Fig. 20

an outside of the door guide means.

FIG. 1 shows a household appliance 26 formed by an oven with a domestic appliance device having a pivotally mounted in pivoting directions 10, 12 household appliance door 14 with a door handle 62, which is shown in a disconnected state. The household appliance 26 has an oven muffle 30, which is arranged in a household appliance housing 28 and encloses a usable space 16 formed by a cooking chamber on five sides. On a sixth side, namely on a front side of the household appliance 26, the useful space 16 can be closed by the appliance door 14. Furthermore, the domestic appliance 26 has a storage space 18 arranged underneath the oven muffle 30 into which the household appliance door 14 can be lowered into a horizontal direction via a door storage unit 20 of the domestic appliance device to a large extent by means of a pivoting movement and a subsequent sliding movement. The door storage unit 20 has two basically corresponding, each with lateral end faces of the appliance door 14 in the pivoting directions 10, 12 fixed and in a surface extension 22 of the appliance door 14 movably coupled guide means 24 with two rollers 171, 173, wherein only one of the two guide means 24 is shown. The surface extension 22 extends in closed home appliance door 14 in a vertical direction when the domestic appliance 26 is arranged in an operating position. Furthermore, the door storage unit 20 for receiving a portion of the weight of the appliance door 14 a relative to the appliance housing 28 movably mounted storage unit 38.

FIG. 2 In addition to a door unit 64 with the door handle 62, the domestic appliance door 14 for transmitting the part of the weight of a coupling unit 34 with a contact portion 36 which the domestic appliance door 14 in an assembled state with the storage unit 38th coupled. The door unit 64 has an outer surface 32, which the domestic appliance door 14 in an operating position and in particular in a closed state of the household appliance door 14 and when the household appliance door 14 is pushed into the storage space 18, it is partially bounded laterally in a horizontal direction. In addition to the outer surface 32, the contact region 36 is arranged.

The coupling unit 34, which is a part of the door storage unit 20, is formed by an axle unit 54, which has a hexagonal steel bar 66 and two integral plastic storage units 68, which are each attached positively to one end of the steel bar 66 and mirror-inverted , In a circumferential direction 70 of the steel bar 66, the door unit 64 is rotatably supported by the bearing units 68 about an axis 76 which extends in a horizontal direction. For this purpose, the bearing units 68 slide bearing surfaces 84 ( FIG. 6 ), which together with corresponding sliding bearing surfaces of the door unit 64 form a sliding bearing. At the same time, the bearing units 68 form retaining means which, in particular in a closed position of the household appliance door 14, absorb a weight force of the domestic appliance door 14 and hold the domestic appliance door 14 - in cooperation with other holding means - in the closed position. The bearing units 68 are non-rotatable in the circumferential direction 70 against the steel rod 66 due to a bending of the steel rod 66. In principle, an embodiment of the axle unit 54 is also conceivable in which the steel rod 66 is dispensed with. It is also conceivable that the bearing units 68 are formed integrally with the steel rod 66 and are also made of steel.

The contact region 36 is formed by an end section 56 of the axis unit 54 (FIG. FIG. 2 ). For this purpose, the bearing units 68 have elevations 72 with flat surface parts 74, which extend mainly in a direction perpendicular to the axis 76. A surface of the projections 72 and in particular the surface parts 74 form the contact region 36.
FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of the household appliance 26 without the appliance door 14 in a lateral frontal view. The bearing unit 38 is movably supported by two guide slots 44 of the household appliance 26 relative to the domestic appliance housing 28. The guide slots 44, which are formed mirror-inverted to each other, limit a portion of the storage space 18 in a front view of the domestic appliance on a right and a left side. When the household appliance door 14 is pushed into the storage space 18, it is guided indirectly by the guide slots 44. For this purpose, the bearing unit 38 designed as a ball bearing bearings 42 with steel outer rings ( FIG. 4 ), which roll when inserting the appliance door 14 on the guide slot 44 formed from polypropylene and long glass fibers and are guided in this way. The rolling bearings 42 are attached to two torque transmitting means 48, 50 of the bearing unit 38. Furthermore, the bearing unit 38 has a coupling means 52 formed by a rod, at the ends of which the torque transmission means 48, 50 are arranged in main directions of extension 78 of the coupling means 52 with the aid of recesses 51 (FIG. FIG. 5 ) are plugged. A movement of one of the torque transmission means 48, 50 automatically leads to a movement of the other torque transmission means 48, 50 due to the coupling means 52. The torque transmission means 48, 50 each have a receiving area 40, which in a mounted state of the appliance door 14, the elevations 72 of the storage units 68th and thus the contact areas 36 receives. The receiving region 40 is partially delimited by a contact surface 49 of the torque-transmitting means 48, 50, which rests against the contact region 36 in an assembled state of the appliance door 14 and transmits a torque to the contact region 36 and thus the coupling unit 34, which occurs when the appliance door 14 moves on the coupling unit 34 exerts a torque by which the coupling unit 34 is rotated relative to the door unit 64. During the transmission of the torque, a surface part of the elevation 72 opposite the planar surface part 74 also acts, which rests against a contact surface 46 of the torque-transmitting means 48, 50. In the mounted state of the household appliance door 14, the elevations 72 ( FIG. 2 ) as bearing means 86 by transmitting a portion of the weight of the appliance door 14 and the door unit 64 to the abutment surface 49 and to a lower confining surface 80 of the torque transmitting means 48, 50 which partially defines the receiving region 40 in the vertical downward direction. The torque transmission means 48, 50 thus function as holding means 90, which in particular hold the closed household appliance door 14 in position.

Furthermore, the elevation 72 forms a further functional means 88-namely, a guide means 58-of the bearing unit 68 in that the contact area 36 slides on a bearing surface 46 when the household appliance door 14 is uncoupled from the storage unit 38, thereby guiding the appliance door 14. Accordingly, the contact region 36 functions as a guide surface 82. A maintenance or cleaning of the appliance door 14 can advantageously take place by the uncoupling.

FIG. 7 shows a schematic representation of the decoupled from the storage unit 38 household appliance door 14, wherein an intermediate disc and an inner pane 141 (see FIG. 1 ) of the door unit 64 have been removed. The door handle 62 is attached to rollers 111, 113 which rotatably support it about an axis 92. In an operating position, the axis 92 extends in a horizontal direction. On the rollers 111, 113 is in each case a torque transmission means 94, 95 fixed such that by means of the torque transmission means 94, 95 each have a torque on the rollers 111, 113 is transferable, which rotates the door handle 62 about the axis 92. Conversely, a torque can be transmitted to the torque transmitting means 94, 95 by means of the door handle 62. Furthermore, the torque transmission means 94, 95 each have a cable pull 181, which is deflected by one hundred and eighty degrees through the rollers 111 and 113, respectively. In each case a bolt 115 is attached to one of the torque transmission means 94, 95 (see FIG. 6 ) and engages in a receiving region 116 of the bearing units 68, whereby the torque transmission means 94, 95 are positively secured to the bearing units 68. The torque transmission means 94, 95 extend in grooves 127 of the bearing units 68 and are thus secured in a form-fitting manner along the axis 76.

The door unit 64 is designed as a profiled rail door and has two profiled rails 121, 123. The bearing units 68 are partially arranged in recesses 163 of the profile rails 121, 123. The recesses 163 are bounded by non-illustrated bearing surfaces of the rails 121, 123. When the household appliance door 14 is opened, the sliding bearing surfaces 84 of the bearing units 68 slide against the corresponding bearing surfaces of the profiled rails 121, 123. Furthermore, the rollers 111, 113 and thus the door handle 62 are rotatably supported by means of the profiled rails 121, 123. On the profile rails 121, 123 each one fastening means 98 is fixed relative to the rails 121, 123 immovably. An eyelet 125 of the fastener 98, which is integrally formed and, in a fully assembled state, functions as a disc attachment means for the inner disc 141 and the washer, has first and second attachment portions 100, 104 which are immovable relative to the axle 92.

The door unit 64 also has a first and a second spring means 96, 102, which are formed as coil springs. A first end of the first spring means 96 is hooked to the first attachment portion 100, a first end of the second spring means 102 is hooked to the second attachment portion 104. At two ends of the cable 181 eyelets 117, 119 of the torque transmission means 94, 95 are further attached. A second end of the spring means 96 is further attached to the eyelet 117. The spring means 96 is disposed between the eyelet 125 and the roller 113. A second end of the second spring means 102 is attached to the eyelet 119. The second spring means 102 is disposed between the eyelet 125 and the bearing unit 68. Main directions of extension of the spring means 96, 102 are parallel to the surface extension 22. A portion 129 of the torque transmitting means 94, which is attached to the eyelet 117, runs parallel and directly adjacent to an outer disk 133 of the door unit 64. A second section 131 runs parallel to the first section 129 and parallel to the inner pane 141 of the door unit 64 and is arranged directly next to the inner pane 141. The partial section 129 is arranged between the partial section 131 and the outer plate 133.

The first spring means 96 has a significantly greater spring stiffness than the second spring means 102. The spring means 96, 102 keep the cable 181 stretched in an assembled state. By means of a rotation of the door handle 62 relative to the profile rails 121, 123 about the axis 92, a torque is transmitted to the bearing units 68 with the aid of the rollers 111, 113 and the torque transmission means 94, 95.

In addition, upon rotation of the bearing units 68 about the axis 76 relative to the rails 121, 123 by means of the torque transmitting means 94, 95 and the rollers 111, 113, a torque is transmitted to the door handle 62. A rotation of the profile rails 121, 123 relative to the bearing units 68 takes place when opening and closing the appliance door 14.

FIG. 8 schematically shows the closed state of the appliance door 14. The first spring means 96 has in this case compared to all other possible operating positions a smallest deflection. A main extension direction 135 of the door handle 62 perpendicular to the axis 92 is in this case arranged perpendicular to the subsections 129, 131 and to the outer disk 133. When the household appliance door 14 is opened, the torque transmission means 48, 50 are transmitted by means of the abutment surfaces 46, 49 (see FIG FIG. 5 ) a torque on the survey 72 and thus on the bearing unit 68, since the force exerted by the spring means 96 on the torque transmitting means 94 and the force of gravity of the door handle 62, the survey 72 against the contact surfaces 46, 49 presses. In this way, the bearing units 68 remain stationary when opening the appliance door 14 relative to the bearing unit 38 and rotate relative to the rails 121, 123 about the axis 76. The bearing units 68 transmit thereby by means of the receiving portion 116 and the bolt 115, a torque and thus a drive to the torque transmission means 94, 95, which is why the bearing unit 68 is identical to a trained as a drive means 60 functional means 106. When opened, the torque transmitting means 94, 95 and the rollers 111, 113 transfer the drive to the door handle 62, which causes the main extension direction 135 of the door handle in each opening position of the door unit 64 to extend substantially in a horizontal direction when the domestic appliance 26 is in an operating position is arranged. Upon opening, furthermore, the spring means 96 is stretched as the spring means 102 contracts.

The storage unit 68 and the torque transmitting means 48 form a locking unit 108. In a use state in which the home appliance 26 is fully assembled and in which the user uses the door handle 62 only to open or close the appliance door 14, the locking unit 108 is in FIG a release state ( FIG. 10 ), in which the appliance door 14 in a partially open position of the storage unit 38 can be decoupled when the surface extension 22 (see FIG. 1 ) includes an angle of about twenty degrees with a vertical. To uncouple the household appliance door 14 is first pivoted in one of the pivoting directions 10, 12 in the partially open position. Thereafter, a user or a fitter can the home appliance door 14 on outer surfaces 183 of the rails 121, 123, which surfaces of the rails 121, 123 and the home appliance door 14 in a front view partially limit laterally, and on outer surfaces 185, 187 of the inner pane 141 and the Outer disk 133, which partially laterally delimit the outer disk 133 and the inner disk 141 in the front view, and hold the household appliance door 14 in a straight line in the direction of the surface extension 22 upwards. As a result, the elevations 72 slide through indentations 162 of the torque transmission means 48, 50 (FIG. FIG. 5 ) and are thereby removed from the receiving areas 40, whereby the household appliance door 14 is disconnected from the storage unit 38. During uncoupling and after uncoupling, the bearing unit 38 can optionally be detected by a locking unit 161 in a position in which the bearing unit 38 is arranged immediately before uncoupling. If this option is used, after disconnecting the household appliance door 14, guide surfaces 143, 145 of the storage unit 38 facilitate coupling the household appliance door 14 to the storage unit 38, by guiding the raised portions 72 when introduced into the receiving area 40 and thus also the storage units 68. Furthermore, in the coupling operation, the rollers 171, 173 of the guide means 24 (see FIG FIG. 1 ) in lateral grooves 175 of the household appliance door 14, which partially delimit the household appliance door 14 in an operating position laterally ( FIG. 2 ). A groove bottom 177 of the groove 175 has a recess 179, in which the elevation 72 is arranged. When the household appliance door 14 is coupled, the rollers 171, 173 move into the groove 175 and past the storage units 68, so that a movable coupling of the domestic appliance door 14 to the guide means 24 by the storage units 68 remains unimpaired.

The locking unit 108 is further provided to prevent removal of the appliance door 14 from the storage unit 38 in an at least partially open position of the appliance door 14. For example, a user or a fitter brings the appliance door 14 in a position in which the surface extension 22 at an angle of is about twenty degrees with a vertical, and moves the door handle 62 upward in the direction of the surface extension 22, the door handle 62 rotates by means of a coupling unit 139 formed by the rollers 111, 113, the torque transmission means 94, 95 and the bolts 115 , the bearing units 68 relative to the profile rails 121, 123 about the axis 76. As a result, the elevations 72 move in a locking position ( FIG. 11 ), behind the undercuts 147 of the torque transmitting means 48, 50, which are formed by formed by the torque transmission means 48, 50 boundaries of the receiving areas 40, rotate. The screwing in of the elevations 72 is guided by guide surfaces 157, 159 which are formed by the receiving areas 40 delimiting surface parts of the torque transmission means 48, 50. One of the guide surfaces 159 is formed by the undercut 147. The screwing in of the elevations 72 is stopped in that two surface parts 149, 151 of the elevations 72 abut against two surface parts 153, 155 of the torque transmission means 48, which partially delimit the receiving region 40. When the surface portions 149, 151 of the projections 72 abut against the surface portions 153, 155 of the torque transmitting means 48, the projections 72 are in the locking position. If a user then attempts to move the appliance door 14 in the direction of the surface extension 22 away from the storage unit 38, this is prevented by the projections 72 abutting the undercuts 147, as a result of which the projections 72 remain in the receiving areas 40.

FIG. 12 shows a schematic representation of the appliance door 14 in an open position with the inner pane 141, which the utility space 16 (see FIG. 1 ) closes in a closed position of the appliance door 14. The protrusions 72 are inserted into the receiving areas 40 and the locking unit 108 is in the unlocked state. If an operator attempts to decouple the appliance door 14 from the storage unit 38 in the open position by attempting to guide the elevations 72 out of the receiving areas 40 through the indentations 162, then the outer pane 133 acts as a locking element, since the torque transmission means 48, 50 contact the Outer disk abut and this prevents removal of the projections 72 from the receiving areas 40.

When mounting the appliance door 14, first the profile rails 121, 123 are glued to the outer pane 133 ( FIG. 6 ). To mount the coupling unit 34, the bearing units 68 are attached to the ends of the steel rod 66 and compressed so far until the bearing units 68 abut the ends of the steel rod 66. A first of the bearing units 68 is then in one of the recesses 163 of one of the rails 121, 123 inserted. By means of a movement of the second of the bearing units 68 and a movement of the steel rod 66, the second bearing unit 68 is inserted into the remaining recess. The steel bar 66 and the bearing units 68 are then in their mounted position. The bearing units 68 each have a recess 165. In order to fix the bearing units 68 and the steel rod 66, which acts as coupling means 169, fasteners 167 designed as steel clamps are inserted through the recesses 165 and locked in place in the mounted position, so that the fastening means 167 are fastened to the bearing units 68. The fastening means 167 abut against the ends of the steel rod 66, so that a relative movement and in particular a relative movement of the bearing units 68 to each other is prevented. In principle, it is also conceivable that the bearing units 68 are fastened in a different manner to the steel bar 66 or that the coupling unit 34 is mounted prior to the gluing of the profile rails 121, 123. Furthermore, it is conceivable that one of the bearing units 68 is fastened by means of the steel clamp and the other bearing unit 68 is fastened in another way to the steel rod 66 or is formed integrally therewith. A further alternative possibility for fastening the bearing units 68 by means of the steel clamps would also be to arrange in receiving areas of the bearing units 68, in which the steel rod 66 is inserted in an assembled state, spring elements, such as compression springs, which upon compression of the bearing units 68 be compressed. By compressing these spring elements, an assembly of the coupling unit 34 is possible even with already glued rails 121, 123 by the bearing units 68 compressed and the spring elements are thus compressed. In an assembled state, the bearing units 68 would be pushed apart from these spring elements and thus attached to the rails 121, 123. As a further alternative, the steel bar 66 could also have a different number of edges. In particular, the steel rod 66 can also be designed to be round, in which case the bearing units 68 would be rotatable relative to each other about the axis 76. In one embodiment of the coupling unit 34 without the steel rod 66, the bearing units 68 would otherwise be attached to the rails 121, 123. This could, for example, by locking the bearing units 68 in the rails 121, 123 or by inserting the bearing units 68 in the rails 121, 123 and securing circlips to the bearing units 68, which the bearing units 68 form fit to the rails 121, 123 along the Attach axle 76, done.

The guide means 24, which is rotatably supported about a horizontally extending axis 193, and the storage unit 38 form a domestic appliance door storage unit 191, which the Domestic appliance door 14 pivots about axis 193 ( FIG. 1 ). The locking unit 161 is provided to fix the home appliance door storage unit 191 in a pivotal position. For this purpose, the locking unit 161 has a locking means 195 designed as a bolt and an elastic actuating means 197, which is provided for locking the locking means 195 from a starting position (FIG. FIG. 13 ) in a locking position ( FIG. 14 ) in which the locking means detects the home appliance door bearing unit 191 in the pivotal position. The actuating means 197 is designed as an adjusting bracket. In the locking position, the locking means 195 engages a recess 201 of a locking means 200 of the locking unit 161, which is fixed to the guide means 24, that the guide means 24 and the locking means 200 relative to each other about an axis 204 which is parallel to the axis 193 and is rotated at a rotation of the guide means 24 with the guide means 24 are rotatable. The locking means 195 is with respect to the directions of rotation about the axis 193 on a housing-fixed guide member 203 (see FIG. 16 ) of the home appliance device. Therefore, when the locking means 195 is in the locking position, rotation of the guide means 24 about the axis 193 is prevented and the guide means 24 is thus fixed in a certain rotational position.

Furthermore, the locking means 200 is provided to transmit a spring force to the guide means 24. On the locking means 200, a coil spring 207 is mounted, which is expanded upon opening of the appliance door 14 and a part of the potential energy, which the appliance door 14 has in a closed state, stores and thus serves as an energy storage unit.

The torque transmission means 48, 50 are also parts of the domestic appliance door storage unit 191. They each have a recess 205 (FIG. FIG. 5 ) into which a locking means 189 (FIG. FIG. 1 ) of the guide means 24 in pivotal positions of the appliance door 14 and in particular in a pivot position of the appliance door 14, in which the locking means 195 is arranged in the locking position, engages. By the engagement of the locking means 189 in the recess 205, the guide means 24 and the bearing unit 38 are substantially immovable relative to each other. Accordingly, if the locking means 195 is in the locking state in a mounted state of the domestic appliance, the domestic appliance door storage unit 191 is fixed in a take-out swinging position. In this pivoting position, the domestic appliance door 14 can be decoupled from the domestic appliance door storage unit 191 by the rectilinear movement in the direction of the surface extension 22.

If the appliance door 14 is in a partially open position, an operator or fitter for fixing the appliance door storage unit 191, for example with the aid of a coin, can insert into a groove 206 of an actuating means 199 (FIG. FIG. 15 ), which is designed as a pivot, the locking unit 161 penetrate and this starting from a starting position, in which an opening and closing of the appliance door 14 is possible to rotate by ninety degrees ( Figures 13 and 14 ). If the home appliance door storage unit 191 is in a swing position different from the take-off swing position, the actuator 197 is cocked and thereby expanded by this rotation of the operation means 199 since the operation means 197 is fixed to the operation means 199. Due to the tightening of the actuating means 197, the locking means 195, which is attached to the actuating means 197, in a vertical downward direction against a sliding surface 202 of the locking means 200, which is arranged on an upper side of the locking means 200 is pressed. For a locking of the locking means 195 in the recess 201 pivots the operator or fitter the appliance door 14 in the pivot directions 10, 12 (see FIG. 1 ), wherein the locking means 195 slides on the sliding surface 202 until the domestic appliance door storage unit 191 is in the withdrawal pivot position and the locking means 195 in the recess 201 due to a pressure which the actuating means 197 on the locking means 195 downwardly engages. Thereafter, the home appliance door 14 can be decoupled by the linear movement of the bearing unit 38 and the guide means 24. Will a user the disconnected household appliance door 14 in an operating position such. B. bring in the closed position, the rollers 171, 173 are introduced into the groove 175 and the projections 72 in the receiving areas 40 and the actuating means 199 again turned back by one hundred eighty degrees, whereby the locking means 195 is moved back to the starting position and the appliance door 14 is pivotable, for example, in the closed position.

FIG. 16 shows a portion of the home appliance device with the fixed to the housing guide member 203 to which the guide means 24 is rotatably mounted about the axis 193. The guide element 203 has slots formed as recesses 208, which the locking means 195 during the displacement of the starting position ( FIG. 13 ) in the locking position ( FIG. 14 ) and back again.

The home appliance 26 further includes a home appliance door guide device. FIG. 17 shows an integrally formed first door guide means 209 of the household appliance door guide device. To guide the appliance door 14, the household appliance 26 has a further door guide means 209, which in comparison to the first door guide means 209 is formed mirror-inverted. The two door guide means 209 limit in a frontal view of the household appliance, the storage space 18 laterally (see FIG. 3 ). The door guide means 209 each form a guide slot, which is identical to the guide slot 44 or is mirror-inverted to this and which has a guide surface made of plastic with long glass fibers 210 for guiding the bearing unit 38. The guide slot 44 has a plurality of areas 256, 258, 260, which limit the storage space 18 partially laterally in an assembled state of the domestic appliance. The first area 256 is arranged on a front area of the household appliance and runs obliquely upward in an operating position of the household appliance. The second area 258 is arranged in a middle area 258 of the domestic appliance between the front area and the rear side of the household appliance and runs in a horizontal direction. The third area 260 limits the storage space 18 in a rear area partially laterally and extends obliquely downwards.

When introducing the household appliance door 14 into the storage space 18, the domestic appliance door 14 is at least partially braked by the household appliance door guide device. For this purpose, the domestic appliance door guide device has a damping means 212 ( FIG. 3 ), which is formed from a cuboid formed of polyurethane. At an end region of the guide slot 44 facing the rear of the household appliance, the door guide means 209 has a receiving area 214. The damping means 212 is engaged on a latching means 216 of the door guide means 209, which is arranged in the receiving region 214, and is partially arranged in the receiving region 214. At the end of an insertion process of the appliance door 14 into the storage space 18, the torque transmission means 50 (see FIG. 4 ) to the damping means 212 and transmits kinetic energy to the damping means 212, which partially converts the energy into heat and partially passes it on to the door guide means 209, which is thereby slightly deformed.

A portion of the door guide means 209 partially surrounding the guide slot 44 has a rib structure 218 formed by a honeycomb cell pattern 230. Furthermore, the door guide means 209 forms a receiving area 228 which directly adjoins a front side of the storage space. In an assembled state, the actuating means 199 is arranged in the receiving region 228 and rotatably supported by the door guide means 209 (see FIG. 15 ).

The guide means 24, which forms a bearing means 222 and allows pivoting of the appliance door 14, is rotatably supported by the door guide means 209. In a state of wear the rotatable mounting of the bearing means 222, the bearing means 222 could in a comparison to a new state of the domestic appliance have a margin in a lateral, horizontal direction away from the storage space 18. Due to a sliding surface 220 ( FIG. 18 ) of the door guide means 209, the bearing means 222 despite the margin perform a safe rotational movement. In this case, an outer region 234 of the bearing means 222 slides on the sliding surface 220 (FIG. FIG. 19 ), wherein the bearing means 222 is supported by the sliding surface 220. The sliding surface 220 is a segment of a cylinder jacket whose axis of symmetry corresponds to the axis 193.

On one side of the door guide means 209, which in an assembled state faces an outer region of the domestic appliance, the door guide means 209 has a fastening means 224 for fastening a cable 236 to a lighting of the domestic appliance ( FIG. 20 ). The fastening means 224 is designed as a clamping means and clamps the cable 236 in a mounted state on the rib structure 218.

Parts of the household appliance housing 28 are screwed directly to the door guide means 209 ( FIG. 3 ). These are in particular a floor 238, side walls 240, an intermediate floor 242, which limits the storage space 18 partially upwards, a trim panel and a Lisene. The bottom 238 has a fold 244, which expands in an operating position upwards and surrounds the door guide means 209. The fold 244 is screwed to the door guide means 209 at three points 246. The three points 246 are evenly distributed over a depth dimension of the household appliance.

At an area 248 adjoining the front of the domestic appliance, the door guide means 209 has an indentation at one end section of the guide slot 44, through which the bearing unit 38 can be removed from the guide slot 44. Before such removal of the bearing unit 38, the coupling of the bearing unit 38 with the locking means 189 designed as a tooth must be canceled.

If the domestic appliance 26 is lifted and dropped onto the floor 238 or an edge of the floor 238, forces acting on parts of the household appliance 26 are transmitted to the door guide means 209 in the event of a collision of the household appliance 26. These parts are in a rear portion of the household appliance 26, for example, the side walls 240, in a central region of the domestic appliance 26, the intermediate bottom 242 and the side walls 240 and in a front region of the domestic appliance 26, a baking pipe flange 252, the Lisene and a drip tray 250, which of the bottom 238 is formed. The door guide means 209 has an elevation 254 ( FIG. 17 ), which engages in a mounted state in the drip groove 250.
The door guide means 209 is manufactured in a spraying process.

reference numeral

10

pan direction

12

pan direction

14

House door

16

utility space

18

storage space

20

Door Storage Unit

22

surface extension

24

guide means

26

household appliance

28

Home appliance housing

30

oven muffle

32

outer surface

34

coupling unit

36

contact area

38

storage unit

40

reception area

42

roller bearing

44

guide link

46

contact surface

48

Torque transmission means

49

contact surface

50

Torque transmission means

51

recess

52

coupling agent

54

axis unit

56

end

58

guide means

60

drive means

62

door handle

64

door unit

66

steel rod

68

storage unit

70

circumferentially

72

survey

74

surface part

76

axis

78

Main direction

80

boundary surface

82

guide surface

84

friction bearing surface

86

bearing means

88

Working medium

90

holding means

92

axis

94

Torque transmission means

95

Torque transmission means

96

spring means

98

fastener

100

fastening area

102

spring means

104

fastening area

106

Working medium

108

locking unit

111

role

113

role

115

bolt

116

reception area

117

eyelet

119

eyelet

121

rail

123

rail

125

eyelet

127

groove

129

part Of

131

part Of

133

outer pane

135

Main direction

139

coupling unit

141

inner pane

143

guiding surface

145

guiding surface

147

undercut

149

surface part

151

surface part

153

surface part

155

surface part

157

guiding surface

159

guiding surface

161

arresting

162

indentation

163

recess

165

recess

167

fastener

169

coupling agent

171

role

173

role

175

groove

177

groove base

179

indentation

181

cable

183

outer surface

185

outer surface

187

outer surface

189

locking

191

House door bearing unit

193

axis

195

Locking means

197

actuating means

199

actuating means

200

locking

201

recess

202

sliding surface

203

guiding element

204

axis

205

indentation

206

groove

207

spiral spring

208

recess

209

Door guide means

210

guide surface

212

damping means

214

reception area

216

latching means

218

rib structure

220

sliding surface

222

bearing means

224

fastener

228

reception area

230

cell

234

outdoors

236

electric wire

238

ground

240

Side wall

242

false floor

244

fold

246

Point

248

Area

250

drip tray

252

Backrohrflansch

254

survey

256

Area

258

Area

260

Area

Claims (16)

Household appliance door guide device with at least one door guide means (209), which has at least one guide surface (210),
characterized in that
the guide surface (210) is at least partially formed from a plastic. Domestic appliance door guide device according to claim 1,
characterized in that
the door guide means (209) has a gate (44) which is intended to guide a household appliance door (14). Domestic appliance door guide device according to claim 2,
characterized in that
the gate (44) is provided to introduce the home appliance door (14) at least in large part by means of a sliding movement in a storage space (18). Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
marked by
at least one damping means (212) which is coupled in at least one mounted state with the door guide means (209). Domestic appliance door guide device according to claim 4,
characterized in that
the damping means (212) is at least partially disposed in at least one mounted state in a receiving area (214) of the door guide means (209). Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of claims 4 or 5,
characterized in that
the door guide means (209) has a latching means (216) which secures the damping means (212) in at least one mounted state. Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the door guide means (209) has at least one rib structure (218). Domestic appliance door guide device according to claim 7,
characterized in that
the rib structure (218) is honeycomb-shaped. Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
marked by
at least one slide surface (220) of the door guide means (209) and at least one bearing means (222) arranged to slide against the slide surface (220) during at least one movement relative to the door guide means (209). Domestic appliance door guide device according to claim 9,
characterized in that
the sliding surface (220) is formed as part of a cylinder jacket. Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of claims 9 or 10,
characterized in that
the sliding surface (220) serves to slide the bearing means (222) in at least one state of wear. Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the door guide means (209) has at least one subregion which is formed at least from polypropylene and / or long glass fibers. Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the door guide means (209) includes a fastener (224) adapted to secure a cable. Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
marked by
at least one rolling bearing (42) with a metal outer ring, which is guided in at least one operating operation of the guide surface (210). Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the door guide means (209) has at least one receiving area (228) which is intended to receive at least one actuating means (199). Domestic appliance door guide device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the door guide means (209) is integrally formed of plastic.

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