Patents Assigned to Electrolux Home Products
  • Gas knob skirt retainer
    Patent number: 10503198
    Abstract: A control knob assembly to control an operation of an appliance comprises a skirt adapted to engage the appliance. The skirt has a side wall, and a front face which in use will face away from the appliance. The assembly has a knob adapted to engage with the skirt, the knob having a side wall, the knob being adapted to move axially relative to the skirt. A spring is located between the knob and the skirt, to bias the knob and the skirt away from each other. The skirt and/or the knob has a spring retaining means adapted to retain the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products PTY Limited
    Inventors: David Wait, Purvag Nanavati
  • Adjustable-length temperature probe
    Patent number: 10502640
    Abstract: A meat probe has a shaft, plug, and stabilizer for measuring a parameter (e.g., temperature) of a piece of meat and communicating the measurement to a cooking appliance. The stabilizer may have a plurality of wings. For example, two wings may be cantilevered about a proximal end that is at the shaft. As the shaft is inserted into the piece of meat, the wings are bent outwardly about the proximal end. In another example, four wings are connected on opposite ends to a first and second base, and the shaft extends through the first and second bases. As the shaft is inserted into the piece of meat, the second base is pushed upward, decreasing the distance between the first and second base and bending the wings about a middle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Swayne, Brendan McGinnis, Elizabeth A. Byrne
  • Method for controlling an induction cooking hob with a pot detection system and a control unit for controlling an induction cooking hob with a pot detection system
    Patent number: 10499463
    Abstract: A method for controlling an induction cooking hob with a pot detection system and a user interface. The method includes the steps of activating the induction cooking hob by touching a main switch by a user; starting automatically the pot detection system by a control unit of the induction cooking hob; and detecting at least one pot and/or pan on a cooking surface of the cooking hob or detecting if no pot or pan is placed on said cooking surface, by the pot detection system; deactivating the pot detection system after a predetermined time interval if no pot or pan or if no further pot or pan, respectively, has been detected on the cooking surface within the time interval; activating a deactivation indicator showing to the user that the pot detection system is deactivated, and providing an opportunity to reactivate the pot detection system by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation, N.V.
    Inventors: Alex Viroli, Massimo Nostro, Laurent Jeanneteau, Andrea Rossi
  • Shelf assembly
    Patent number: 10495376
    Abstract: A shelf assembly includes a rotating hinge body rotatably coupled to a stationary hinge body, and a shelf fixed to the rotating hinge body that is rotatable with the rotating hinge body relative to the stationary hinge body about a rotational axis. The shelf is rotatable between first and second positions. Moreover, the shelf assembly includes a cam assembly configured to inhibit rotation of the shelf between its first and second positions. The cam assembly includes a cam fixed to one of the stationary hinge body and rotating hinge body, a cam follower movably attached to the other of the stationary hinge body and rotating hinge body, and a biasing member that biases the cam follower into engagement with the cam. The rotatable shelf includes a glass panel having an upper surface with a plurality of edge portions. At least one of the edge portions is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Roesch, Cory Dale Simpson
  • Balanced cooling duct for cooking oven
    Patent number: 10495318
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooking oven having a cooling duct and a cooling fan that is laterally offset relative to a center of the inlet of the cooling duct. The cooling duct has two lateral cooling duct walls extended between the cooling duct inlet and a cooling duct outlet. The cooling duct is designed such that when the cooling fan is operated air flowing along the respective lateral walls will experience substantially equal pressure drop between the inlet and the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Greenbaum, James Leavy
  • Recirculating downdraft system for a cooking appliance
    Patent number: 10480798
    Abstract: Provided is a cooking appliance that includes an oven cavity and an oven door pivotally mounted to a front surface and configured to selectively provide access to an interior of the oven cavity. A cooktop includes a heating element and an inlet of a downdraft system exposed at a top surface of the cooking appliance. An outlet is provided through which air drawn into the downdraft system through the inlet is exhausted to an ambient environment of a room in which the cooking appliance is located. An air duct system conveys air between the inlet and the outlet, and a blower draws air from the ambient environment of the cooking appliance adjacent to the cooktop into the inlet and through the air duct system to be expelled through the outlet back into the ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: John Worrell
  • Dual use user interface and door position sensors
    Patent number: 10473389
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance including both a user interface and door position sensor. The same devices and sensors are for both functions. The user interface is mounted on a door or mullion in such a way that all or nearly all of the input devices on the user interface are activated simultaneously or nearly simultaneously when a door is closed so that the user interface can distinguish this action from user inputs in which only one or two input devices are activated at a time. Likewise, when all input devices are inactivated nearly simultaneously, the user interface may know that a door has been opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy E. Willis
  • Self-centering spring return mechanism for an appliance knob
    Patent number: 10466736
    Abstract: A self-centering knob assembly comprising a back disk, a pair of rotary arms, a spring, and a circuit board fixed to the knob shaft, is provided, with the pair of rotary arms and spring disposed between the back disk and circuit board. Each rotary arm defines first and second slots at opposing ends and a center aperture therebetween that rotatably engages the knob shaft. The first slot engages the end stop pin to limit rotation of the rotary arm. The spring defines opposing arms that engage and oppose rotation of respective rotary arms of the pair. The circuit board includes circuitry configured to provide positioning data of the knob shaft, and including a drive pin that, for each rotary arm, engages and carries the second slot in a respective direction of an opposing direction when the knob shaft and thereby the circuit board is rotated in the respective direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Stoufer
  • Burner grate, gas cooking hob, gas stove top and gas stove
    Patent number: 10458657
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a burner grate (7), gas cooking hob, gas stove top and gas stove. For obtaining sufficient secondary air supply for inner flame exit ports (6) of a gas burner (4) of a gas cooking hob (3), a burner grate (7) adapted to be placed over the gas burner (4) and to support cooking vessels placed on the gas cooking hob (3) is proposed, which burner grate (7) comprises a feeder duct (12) extending from an outer region (13) to a mid section (14) thereof, and is adapted and implemented for feeding air towards flames of inner flame exit ports (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Filippo Tisselli, Filippo Zanetti, Peter Negretti
  • Door storage bin assembly for a refrigerator
    Patent number: 10451338
    Abstract: A storage system and a refrigeration appliance including the storage system for storing food items in a temperature-controlled environment are provided. The storage system includes at least one rail with at least one elongated main portion extending along the width of the refrigerator door and two support arms on each side of the elongated main portion, and a plurality of detachable storage bins. The two support arms attach the rail to at least one mounting structure of a plurality of mounting structures formed within the liner panel and spaced vertically along the height of the interior of the refrigerator door. The storage bin has an arm extending from a rear surface of the bin and configured to be placed between the rail and the liner panel when the bin is placed in a storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Cordero, Dennis Schenk
  • Refrigerator with ice bucket on door
    Patent number: 10451328
    Abstract: A refrigerator with a freezer compartment having a door to open and close the freezer compartment. An ice maker is disposed within the freezer compartment for forming ice pieces. An ice storage bin is mounted to the door for receiving ice from the ice maker. A cover is hinged to the ice marker. The cover is moveable between an unrestricting position in which ice is discharged when the door is in a closed position to a restricting position in which ice does not discharge when the door is in an open position. A sliding tray having sidewall enclosing an area behind the ice maker and extending the depth between the ice maker and a rear wall of the refrigerator, defines a storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Nilton Carlos Bertolini, Thomas McCollough, Travis McMahan, Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez
  • Microwave oven or a multifunctional oven with microwave heating function
    Patent number: 10448464
    Abstract: A microwave oven or multifunctional oven with microwave heating function. The oven includes a cavity with an open front side and a front frame enclosing at least partially a front portion of the cavity. The cavity and the front frame include metal sheet. The front frame is connected to the cavity by fixing elements. A gap is formed between the cavity and the front frame. The gap encloses at least partially the front portion of the cavity and the front frame encloses the gap. The oven includes a door covering the open front side and the gap in a closed state of the door. The gap is at least partially filled by a gasket at least part of which includes one or more materials having low heat conductivity, so that the front frame is thermally decoupled from the cavity by the part of the gasket or the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.
    Inventors: Michael Wittmann, Trevor Specht, Tobias Schutz, Benjamin Himmelein
  • Safety control lockout knob
    Patent number: 10437278
    Abstract: A control knob for controlling the operation of a component of a household appliance is disclosed. The control knob includes a body configured to be attached to a rotatable rod extending from the appliance. A locking element reversibly secures the body in at least one rotational position. The locking element is movable between a first position and a second position. The locking element is configured to engage with a notch to rotatably secure the body in the at least one rotational position when the locking element is in the first position, and to disengage from the notch to permit the body to be rotated when the locking element is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Swayne, Desirea Lewis, Andrew Worley, Brendan McGinnis
  • FLUID CONTAINMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190300240
    Abstract: An exemplary fluid containment system may include a fluid receptacle comprising a receptacle cavity and a receptacle opening. Typically, the fluid receptacle is structured for receiving fluid via the receptacle opening. The fluid containment system further comprises a fluid control component structured to be operatively coupled to the fluid receptacle for controlling fluid flow into the fluid receptacle through the receptacle opening. The fluid receptacle may further comprise a base projection extending from an end of the fluid receptacle structured for positioning and stabilizing the fluid receptacle within a drain recess. The fluid containment system further comprises a fluid container structured for receiving fluid and structured to be positioned within the receptacle cavity of the fluid receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Erin Smith Wright, Brian Roderman, David Singer, Justin Pendleton, Sara Roueche Dulski, Kevin Shin
  • COMMUNICATIONS ADAPTER APPARATUS FOR INTERFACING WITH AN APPLIANCE CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20190305980
    Abstract: A communications adapter may be in operative communication with the controller of the appliance via a connector, cable, or wire configured to send and/or receive electrical signals, data, and/or power. Through the connector, the communications adapter may be configured to retrieve various types of appliance data (both real-time and static data) from the appliance controller. The communications adapter may then wirelessly communicate with a user device to relay the appliance data and receive user inputs. In this manner, the communications adapter provides a way to retrofit legacy appliances with wireless communication capabilities, which in turn enables the user to remotely monitor and control the appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Mario D'Ovidio
  • CORNER WALL MOUNTABLE HANGING STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20190298091
    Abstract: A mountable hanging structure may be mounted between two intersecting walls forming a corner. The hanging structure may comprise a rod comprising a body with a curved section extending between first and second ends and a mounting assembly comprising two retainers. Each of the retainers may comprises (1) a base configured for mounting to one of the intersecting walls, (2) a flange extending from the base for receiving a respective end of the rod, wherein the flange comprises one or more holding elements configured to receive the ends of the rod and prevent the rod from rotating relative to the base, and (3) a shroud configured for connecting to the base and comprising a bore for receiving an end of the rod. The base and the shroud may comprise interlocking members for interlocking the shroud to the base to mount the rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Erin Smith Wright, Brian Roderman, David Singer, Justin Pendleton, Sara Roueche Dulski, Kevin Shin
  • TRANSFORMABLE STORAGE CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20190300245
    Abstract: A transformable storage container may comprise: an end wall; a support frame operatively coupled to the end wall by a plurality of sides extending between the end wall and the support frame, the support frame defining an opening to an interior cavity defined by the end wall, the plurality of sides, and the support frame, the support frame further comprising: a first channel substantially parallel to the end wall; and a second channel substantially perpendicular and conjoined to the first channel, the first channel and the second channel forming a channel interface therebetween; and an end door movably coupled to the support frame by the first channel and the second channel, the end door comprising a protrusion proximate a perimeter of the end door, the protrusion being moveable between the first and second channels and rotatable within the channel interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Erin Smith Wright, Brian Roderman, David Singer, Justin Pendleton, Sara Roueche Dulski, Kevin Shin
  • COLLAPSIBLE HANGER
    Publication number: 20190298094
    Abstract: A collapsible hanger may comprise: a suspendable support base further comprising: a neck having first and second ends; and a support extending from the second end, the support having first and second pegs positioned at first and second ends of the support, respectively; a frame positionable along a length of the neck; first and second extensions operatively coupled to the frame, the first and second extensions defining, respectively, a first channel positioned along at least a portion of a length of the first extension for receiving and guiding the first peg, and a second channel positioned along at least a portion of a length of the second extension for receiving and guiding the second peg, wherein sliding the frame along the length of the neck adjusts a separation distance between the first extension and the second extension and causes movement of each peg along an associated channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Erin Smith Wright, Brian Roderman, David Singer, Justin Pendleton, Sara Roueche Dulski
  • Provisioning an appliance for network connectivity
    Patent number: 10425276
    Abstract: An apparatus integral with or directly coupled to an appliance is provided. The apparatus may connect to a user device at the apparatus configured to operate as a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point. The apparatus may receive a command over the connection from the user device to cause the apparatus to scan for one or more available WLAN(s) and obtain one or more service set identifiers (SSIDs) of the available WLAN(s). The apparatus may send the SSID(s) over the connection to the user device for display and user selection of a selected SSID of the SSID(s), with the selected SSID being of a selected WLAN of the available WLAN(s). And the apparatus may receive the selected SSID over the connection from the user device to enable the apparatus to connect directly to the selected WLAN as a WLAN station using the selected SSID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: Giorgio Francescangeli
  • Miniature printed circuit board mounted haptic device
    Patent number: 10423231
    Abstract: An apparatus such as an appliance with a printed circuit board, PCB, (202) mounted haptic feedback device (200) is provided. The apparatus comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) having an opening (204) defined therein, and a spool (206) affixed to the PCB and having a shaft with a coil (208) wound thereabout. The shaft defines an opening aligned with the opening of the PCB. The apparatus also comprises a spring-loaded plunger positioned and movable within the opening of the shaft. The spring-loaded plunger includes a metallic disk operatively coupled to an end of the plunger and distally positioned to the spool. A control component of the apparatus is configured to energize the coil according to a haptic feedback pattern, and thereby cause the coil to at tract the metallic disk and move the plunger within the opening of the shaft of the spool, and through the opening of the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: Paul Stoufer