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Granted Patent B2
US 10,488,102 · App. 15/697,524 · Granted Nov 26, 2019

Household cooling appliance with an ice tray and a cooling device in a door

Inventors: Kudret Baysal (Giengen, DE); Carsten Weiss (Giengen, DE); Bernd Mettel (Herbrechtingen, DE); Axel Kluger (Giengen, DE); Johannes Schlosser (Unterschneidheim, DE); Markus Spielmannleitner (Ellwangen, DE); Michael Laudahn (Gundelfingen, DE)
Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
F25D23/04F25C5/22F25D11/025F25B21/02F25C5/182F25C2300/00F25C2400/10F25D17/065F25D23/02F25D2317/062F25D2321/141
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Patent No.
US 10,488,102
App. No.
15/697,524
Granted
Nov 26, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A household cooling appliance has a housing with a receiving space for food, a door for closing the receiving space, wherein the door is movably arranged at the housing, an ice maker with an ice tray, wherein the ice maker with the ice tray is arranged in the door, a first cooling device, which is arranged at the door and by which the ice tray is cooled, wherein the first cooling device comprises a waste heat unit by which the waste heat resulting from the cooling of the ice tray can be dissipated, and a second cooling device, which is arranged at the housing and by which the receiving space is cooled. The waste heat unit of the first cooling device is thermally coupled with the second cooling device such that the waste heat of the waste heat unit can be transferred to the second cooling device.

Claims (11)

1. A household cooling appliance, comprising

a housing with a receiving space for food,

a door for closing the receiving space, the door being movably arranged at the housing,

the door including a functional component, and the functional component being at least partially an outer component of the door, the functional component being a front cover of the door,

an ice maker with an ice tray, the ice maker with the ice tray being arranged at the door,

a first cooling device, being arranged at the door and by which cooling the ice tray,

the first cooling device including a waste heat unit dissipating the waste heat resulting from the cooling of the ice tray, the waste heat unit being a condenser, and

the condenser being thermally coupled with the functional component for transferring the waste heat to the front cover.

2. The household cooling appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the functional component includes a door seal.

3. The household cooling appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the functional component includes a receiving space for an electronic module.

4. The household cooling appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the condenser is a skin condenser.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 10, 2017
From: BAYSAL, KUDRET; WEISS, CARSTEN; METTEL, BERND; KLUGER, AXEL; SCHLOSSER, JOHANNES; SPIELMANNLEITNER, MARKUS; LAUDAHN, MICHAEL
To: BSH HAUSGERAETE GMBH
Reel/Frame 043826/0592 →
Continuity (1)
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