IP Library Granted Patent US 8,198,534
Granted Patent B2
US 8,198,534 · App. 12/682,893 · Granted Jun 12, 2012

Household appliance

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Patent No.
US 8,198,534
App. No.
12/682,893
Granted
Jun 12, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An appliance having a cable harness including a ground cable, the ground cable electroconductively connected to an electrically conductive component of the appliance. The cable harness is at least partially accommodated in a cable duct of the appliance. In an exemplary embodiment, a first contact element held on the cable duct and including an integrated first contact element is electroconductively connected to the ground cable of the cable harness, which comes into electrical contact with the electrically conductive component of the household appliance using an assembly movement.

Claims (9)

1. An appliance, comprising:

a cable harness including a ground cable, the ground cable electroconductively connected to an electrically conductive component of the appliance; a cable duct, wherein the cable harness is at least partially accommodated in the cable duct; and a first contact element integrated with the cable duct and electroconductively connected to the ground cable of the cable harness, which comes into electrical contact with a second contact element of the electrically conductive component of the appliance upon assembly of the cable duct.

2. The appliance as claimed in claim 1 , wherein assembly of the cable duct comprises fixing the cable duct to the electrically conductive component.

3. The appliance as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive component is connected electroconductively with an at least partially electroconductive clear area of the appliance.

4. The appliance as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrically conductive component is structured as a support column, to which a treatment compartment having an electrically conductive clear area is fixed.

5. The appliance as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first contact element is structured as a contact reed fixed on the cable duct.

6. The appliance as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second contact element is structured as a contact link formed on a support column.

7. The appliance as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cable duct is fixed on the electroconductive component by a latching plug-in connection.

8. The appliance as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a front door structured with a swivel-mount to be swung down and forwards for opening and closing of a treatment compartment of the appliance, wherein the cable duct is fixed on a support column serving the swivel-mount of the front door.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO REMOVE USSN 14373413; 29120436 AND 29429277 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 035624 FRAME: 0784. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jun 19, 2015
From: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
To: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
Reel/Frame 036000/0848 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 11, 2015
From: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
To: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
Reel/Frame 035624/0784 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 14, 2010
From: HOTZ, DIETER; KUECUEK, CENGIZ; SANCHO, PEDRO; SEESSLE, MANFRED; THIBAUT, WILHELM
To: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE GMBH
Reel/Frame 024228/0681 →