Kitchen appliance
View Patent ↗A kitchen appliance includes a base body, a pivot arm which is disposed in a pivotable manner on the base body and a lever facility for assisting a pivoting movement of the pivot arm. An adjusting mechanism is operably connected to the lever facility to set a degree of assistance for the pivoting movement.
1. A kitchen appliance, comprising:
a base body;
a pivot arm disposed in a pivotable manner on the base body;
a lever facility for assisting a pivoting movement of the pivot arm; and
an adjusting mechanism operably connected to the lever facility to set a degree of assistance for the pivoting movement, the adjusting mechanism including a control element rotatably supported on the base body, and the adjusting mechanism including a ratchet, the control element having at least one gearwheel region interacting with the ratchet.
2. The kitchen appliance of claim 1 , wherein the control element is supported on the base body for rotation about a rotation axis.
3. The kitchen appliance of claim 1 , wherein the control element is supported on the base body for rotation about a rotation axis such as to allow a full rotation about the rotation axis.
4. The kitchen appliance of claim 1 , wherein the base body has a housing, within which the control element is disposed.
5. The kitchen appliance of claim 1 , wherein the lever facility has a force-active member interacting with the control element in an engagement region thereof.
6. The kitchen appliance of claim 5 , wherein the force-active member is an elastic spring.
7. The kitchen appliance of claim 5 , wherein the engagement region of the control element has an offset relative to a rotation axis of the control element.
8. The kitchen appliance of claim 7 , wherein the engagement region of the control element is configured as an engagement shaft, which is offset from a main shaft of the control element running along a rotation axis by the offset.
9. The kitchen appliance of claim 1 , wherein the control element is formed as a single piece.
10. The kitchen appliance of claim 1 , wherein the control element is made of a reinforced material.
11. The kitchen appliance of claim 10 , wherein the reinforced material is reinforced with glass fibers.
12. A method, comprising:
detecting a pivot behavior of a pivot arm supported on a base body of a kitchen appliance for executing a pivoting movement;
using a lever facility for assisting a pivoting movement of the pivot arm; and
setting the pivoting movement of the pivot arm using an adjusting mechanism operably connected by the lever facility to the pivot arm, the adjusting mechanism including a control element rotatably supported on the base body, and the adjusting mechanism including a ratchet, the control element having at least one gearwheel region interacting with the ratchet.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the pivoting behavior is detected by measuring the pivoting movement.
14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the pivoting behavior is detected by measuring a pivot speed.
15. The method of claim 12 , performed in an automated manner on an assembly line during final assembly of a kitchen appliance or by an assembly operator.