Patent ID: 8387213

Claim:
A furniture hinge comprising: a fitment portion to be fixed to a furniture part, said fitment portion having a hinge arm; a hinge cup pivotally connected relative to said fitment portion, said hinge cup having an opening at one end of said hinge cup, an opposite end of said hinge cup in a depth direction of said hinge cup being closed by a bottom surface of said hinge cup, and said hinge cup having an interior which extends from said opening of said hinge cup to said bottom surface of said hinge cup in the depth direction of said hinge cup; and a damping device for damping a relative movement between said hinge cup and said fitment portion, wherein said damping device has a housing and first fixing means, and a side wall of said hinge cup has second fixing means, wherein said hinge arm of said fitment portion is hingedly connected to said hinge cup by way of at least one hinge lever, wherein said housing of said damping device is arranged substantially completely within said hinge cup and is releasably fixed to said hinge cup by releasable engagement of said first fixing means of said housing and said second fixing means of said hinge cup so as to be removable from and insertable into said hinge cup through said opening of said hinge cup in a direction perpendicular to said bottom surface of said hinge cup, and wherein said damping device is a fluid damper, wherein said first or second fixing means include at least one movable or mobile arresting element, by which said housing of said damping device is releasably fixed relative to said hinge cup, wherein the other of said first and second fixing means comprises an opening portion or a latching edge, and wherein said arresting element is of a resilient nature, and wherein the engagement between said first and second fixing means is releasable by pressure against the resilient action of said arresting element.