US 7,320,185 B2
Drive device for a household appliance and method for mounting an electric motor
Reinhard Heyder, Berlin (Germany); and Jörg Skrippek, Priort (Germany)
Assigned to BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraeta GmbH, Munich (Germany)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/462,421.
Application 10/462421 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP01/13448, filed on Nov. 20, 2001.
Claims priority of application No. 100 62 364 (DE), filed on Dec. 14, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2004/0084602 A1, May 06, 2004
Int. Cl. F26B 11/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 34—602  [34/603] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A household appliance comprising:
a housing;
a drum disposed within the housing;
an electric motor having a bearing plate and driving the drum;
an arm supported by the housing of the household appliance and being coupled to the bearing plate;
a threaded fastener coupling the motor to the arm;
a first insulator being disposed between the bearing plate and the arm and suppressing discharge currents between the electric motor and the arm;
a second insulator disposed between the threaded fastener and the arm and permitting the discharge of electrostatic charges from the electric motor to the arm; and
wherein the first and second insulators are made from different materials having different electrical properties from one another.