Patent ID: 9427134
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: A47L,D06F

Claim Text:
1. A stationary household appliance, comprising: a housing having a housing wall; a plurality of components inside the housing; and a unitary force transmitting element located between the housing wall and the plurality of components and adapted to transmit a force that acts upon the housing wall from the outside of the stationary household appliance into the plurality of components; wherein the unitary force transmitting element has at least two force application regions adapted to transmit the force into at least two different ones of the plurality of components by simultaneously contacting the at least two different ones of the plurality of components, wherein the unitary force transmitting element has a plate-like element, and wherein, in a region of a hinge lever of an appliance door of the stationary household appliance, the plate-like element of the unitary force transmitting element has a raised contact contour which is spaced away from the hinge lever when the force is not applied and which is deflected with elastic resilience until contact is made with the hinge lever when the force is applied, and wherein the plate-like element has lattice-like stiffening walls.