US 11,739,577 B2
Furniture hinge
Stefan Duer, Schwarzach (AT); André Hammerer, Alberschwende (AT); and Rainer Hollenstein, Lustenau (AT)
Assigned to Julius Blum GmbH, Hoechst (AT)
Filed by Julius Blum GmbH, Hoechst (AT)
Filed on May 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/318,295.
Application 17/318,295 is a continuation of application No. PCT/AT2019/060367, filed on Nov. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. A 50977/2018 (AT), filed on Nov. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0262258 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. E05D 3/06 (2006.01); E05D 3/16 (2006.01); E05D 15/26 (2006.01)
CPC E05D 3/16 (2013.01) [E05D 15/264 (2013.01); E05D 2003/166 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/212 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A furniture hinge comprising:
a first fitting portion configured to be fixed to a furniture part or configured to be fixed to a carrier movably-supported relative to a furniture carcass;
a second fitting portion configured to be fixed to a movably-supported furniture part;
a hinge mechanism for hingedly connecting the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion to one another, the hinge mechanism having at least five hinge axis members,
wherein the hinge mechanism includes a supporting lever directly connecting the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion to one another,
wherein the hinge mechanism includes a control mechanism for controlling a motion sequence between the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion, the control mechanism being a separate component from the supporting lever so as to not have a one-piece construction with the supporting lever, and the control mechanism having at least three control levers hingedly connected to one another,
wherein the at least three control levers of the control mechanism include a first control lever connected to the first fitting portion via a hinge axis member, a second control lever connected to the second fitting portion via a hinge axis member, and a third control lever connecting the first control lever and the second control lever to one another, and
wherein the supporting lever includes at least two pivot bearings for receiving the hinge axis members, the at least two pivot bearings being spaced from one another along a hinge axis member.