Patents by Inventor Douglas Alan Pohl

Douglas Alan Pohl has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20150276298
    Abstract: On-the-door icemakers having improved air flow are disclosed. An example icemaker includes an ice mold configured to produce ice by removing heat from the ice mold using supplied cold air, and a shaped air flow redirection member disposed at least partially between the icemaker and the door to redirect at least a portion of the cold air away from the door toward the freezer compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: SINUHE ARGUMEDO, DOUGLAS ALAN POHL, LEONARDO RANGEL-MARTINEZ
  • Patent number: 6085542
    Abstract: A refrigerated product storage system incorporates first, second and third vertically spaced storage sections carried by a unitary support frame attached to an inner wall portion of a fresh food compartment door of a refrigerator. In the most preferred form of the invention, the storage system includes an uppermost dairy compartment, an intermediate chill compartment, and a lower, slidable drawer. The chill compartment is provided with a door which is pivotably mounted about a vertical, inboard pivot axis, with the door being formed with a cut-out handle portion adapted to be aligned with a passageway formed in a partition separating freezer and fresh food compartments of the refrigerator. With this construction, a supply of low temperature air is directed from the freezer compartment directly into the chill compartment through the cut-out handle portion. The door of the chill compartment is provided with a latching mechanism, preferably an over-center acting latching mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Maytag Corporation
    Inventors: Warren F. Johnson, Jane Albert, Larry Edward Dietz, Douglas Alan Pohl