Locking device, for example for domestic appliances

• Main Authors: BAADER, HELMUT DR, HENGELEIN, GUENTHER, HARRER, HUBERT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.10.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDCUFFS; KEYS; LAUNDERING; LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILEARTICLES; LOCKS; SAFES; TEXTILES; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS

The locking movement and/or the unlocking movement of a bimetallic drive of an electrothermally-controlled locking apparatus, for example for household-device doors, is or are driven by a separate bimetal member (10, 11) over only a first segment of its movement path. In the process, energy is suppl...