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US 12,529,478 B2Granted
Selectively detachable handle assemblies for a door of an oven
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsZachary J. Bruin-Slot, Rohan Gajananrao Gore, Sarang Hemant Lokaksha, Yogesh Vasant Sonone, Pradeep Shankar Thorat
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Abstract
An oven including: (a) a door including (i) an external surface that faces an external environment and (ii) a mounting stud that projects from an interior of the door toward the external environment; and (b) a handle assembly comprising a handle, an attached state where the handle assembly is attached to the door through coupling with the mounting stud, a detachable state where the handle can be removed from the handle assembly, and a push-button mechanism that, when manipulated, transitions the handle assembly from the attached state to the detachable state.
Claims20
An oven comprising:
- a door comprising (i) an external surface that faces an external environment and (ii) a mounting stud that projects from an interior of the door toward the external environment;
- a handle assembly comprising a handle, an attached state where the handle assembly is attached to the door through coupling with the mounting stud, a detachable state where the handle assembly can be removed from the door, and a push-button mechanism that, when manipulated, transitions the handle assembly from the attached state to the detachable state;
- and
- a bushing comprising:
- a door end that extends into an aperture into the door,
- a handle end that projects away from the external surface of the door toward the handle when the handle is in the attached state,
- a body portion between the door end and the handle end,
- a recess adjacent to a flange between the flange and the handle end, and
- a receiving cavity open at the door end into which the mounting stud projects in a fastening manner to fasten the bushing to the door,
- wherein, in the attached state, the handle assembly is coupled to the bushing, and
- wherein, in the detachable state, the handle assembly can be decoupled from the bushing.
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An oven comprising:
- a door comprising (i) an external surface that faces an external environment and (ii) a mounting stud that projects from an interior of the door toward the external environment;
- and
- a handle assembly comprising
- a handle,
- an attached state where the handle assembly is attached to the door through coupling with the mounting stud,
- a detachable state where the handle assembly can be removed from the door,
- a push-button mechanism that, when manipulated, transitions the handle assembly from the attached state to the detachable state, and
- a standoff disposed between the handle and the external surface of the door, the standoff housing the push-button mechanism and comprising:
- a top surface facing upwards when the door is in a closed position,
- a bottom surface facing downwards when the door is in the closed position,
- a door edge facing the external surface of the door,
- a handle edge facing the handle,
- a pair of apertures disposed elevationally between the top surface and the bottom surface through which a pair of fasteners extend to fasten the standoff and the handle together, and
- a bushing receiver disposed elevationally between the top surface and the bottom surface, the bushing receiver disposed so that the bushing receiver receives a bushing attached to the mounting stud of the door when the handle is in the attached state but can release from the bushing while the handle is pulled away from the door when the handle assembly is in the detachable state.
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An oven comprising:
- a door comprising (i) an external surface that faces an external environment and (ii) a mounting stud that projects from an interior of the door toward the external environment;
- a handle assembly comprising
- a handle,
- an attached state where the handle assembly is attached to the door through coupling with the mounting stud,
- a detachable state where the handle assembly can be removed from the door, and
- a push-button mechanism that, when manipulated, transitions the handle assembly from the attached state to the detachable state;
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- a bushing fastened to the mounting stud, the bushing partially extending through an aperture of the door into the door and partially extending away from the external surface of the door, the bushing comprising (i) a body portion, (ii) a flange projecting radially outward from the body portion, and (iii) a recess into the body portion adjacent to the flange,
- wherein, the push-button mechanism comprises a push-button body with a locking wall and a locking aperture through the locking wall, the body portion of the bushing extending through the locking aperture,
- wherein, the push-button body comprises a relaxed position, and in the relaxed position, the locking wall at least partially resides within the recess of the bushing with the flange of the bushing disposed between the locking wall and the external surface of the door, thus placing the handle assembly in the attached state, and
- wherein, the push-button body further comprises a pushed position, and in the pushed position, the locking wall and the bushing do not interact, thus placing the handle assembly in the detachable state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.