Patent ID: 7234457
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: E05B,E05F,E05Y,F24C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A household cooking appliance, comprising: a housing having a hinge pin; and a household appliance door to be mounted pivotally about a hinge pin, the household appliance door being pivotable between a closed position in which the door closes a compartment of a household appliance and an open position in which the door opens the compartment of the household appliance, the door including a door body configured to pivot about the hinge pin, said door body having a door handle pivotally disposed in said door body about a door handle axis disposed parallel the hinge pin and at least one control mechanism operatively connected to said door handle to, during a door opening movement involving a pivoting of said door body from the closed position to the open position, pivot said door handle about said door handle axis in a second handle pivoting direction opposite to a first handle pivoting direction, said one control mechanism including a cable having one end attached to said door handle at a one cable end attachment and another end attached to the door at an other cable end attachment, said one cable end attachment being attached to said door handle at a radial spacing from said door handle axis such that said one cable end attachment undergoes angular position changes relative to said door handle axis during pivoting of said door handle, and means for permitting movement of said other cable end attachment in correspondence with angular position changes of said one end attachment of the cable such that the effective length of said cable between its one cable end attachment and its other cable end attachment remains substantially constant, and a safeguarding device having a safeguarding length extent with one end attached to said door handle at a radial spacing from said door handle axis and another end attached to a resilient force absorbing element, said resilient force absorbing element being operable to resiliently resist pivoting of said door handle in said second handle pivoting direction and said resilient force absorbing element and said means for permitting movement of said other cable end attachment in correspondence with angular position changes of said one end attachment of the cable being compatibly configured with one another such that, when the door is in the closed position and said door handle is pivoted in said second pivoting direction while the door remains in the closed position, said resilient force absorbing element resiliently resists pivoting of said door handle in said second handle pivoting direction to a prescribed degree so as to reduce the transmission of forces resulting from said pivoting movement of said door handle to said at least one control mechanism.