Home cooking appliance with a side swing oven door having a friction hinge

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10077906
APP PUB NO 20170176020A1
SERIAL NO

15446047

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A home cooking appliance with a side swing door is provided. The home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking cavity and a side swing door movable about at least one hinge between a closed position and an open position to provide access to the cooking cavity, wherein the at least one hinge includes a friction hinge configured to impede rotational motion of the side swing door, wherein the friction hinge is a variable torque friction hinge configured to provide a variable torque throughout at least a part of a range of motion in at least one of an opening direction and a closing direction of the of the side swing door.

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BSH HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATIONIRVINE CA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gayle, James New Bern, US 5 10
Geiger, Joseph Trent Woods, US 18 179
May, George New Bern, US 18 276
Rueter, Felix Munich, DE 2 0

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