Patents Assigned to Midea Group Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12173545
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of storage equipment and provides a door opening device and storage equipment. The door opening device includes a plurality of electromagnetic push rod structures, where each of the plurality of electromagnetic push rod structures includes a push rod; and a controller electrically connected to the plurality of electromagnetic push rod structures and is configured to drive a plurality of push rods of the plurality of electromagnetic push rod structures to act synchronously. The door opening device according to the present application can reduce the thickness of the door opening device to a large extent under the condition of ensuring the pushing force through synchronous action of the plurality of electromagnetic push rod structures arranged in parallel, which is helpful to improve the application range of the door opening device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zheng, Yang Li, Yingjie Ma
  • Patent number: 12173908
    Abstract: An igniter assembly for a gas cooking appliance is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the igniter assembly may have an igniter that can be removed from and/or inserted into an igniter socket through a surface of a cooking appliance without having to remove the surface of the cooking appliance. Accordingly, when the surface is being cleaned after cooking applications, the igniter can be removed from the surface, thereby eliminating any potential damage to the igniter and allowing the surface to be thoroughly cleaned. After cleaning, the igniter can then be re-inserted into the igniter socket through the surface of the cooking appliance without having to remove the surface of the cooking appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Richard Cowan
  • Patent number: 12176806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power factor correction circuit, a control method, and an electrical appliance. The power factor correction circuit may include: a power regulation branch, including a first switching unit, a second switching unit and a branch sampling resistor connected in series sequentially; an inductive branch, connected between an AC power source and a power regulation branch; a rectifier branch, including a first rectifier unit and a second rectifier unit, the rectifier branch may include a main line sampling resistor; a capacitance branch; a control circuit sampling a branch current flowing through each of the branch sampling resistors and a main line current flowing through the main line sampling resistor respectively, and controlling the switching of each power regulation branch sequentially. With the branch sampling resistor and the main line sampling resistor, the overall cost of the power factor correction circuit may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA WHITE HOME APPLIANCE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTER CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Cai, Yi Liu, Kai Jiang, Hong Bin
  • Patent number: 12170658
    Abstract: A networking method for a household appliance, a household appliance, and a terminal device are provided. The household appliance is provided with a network module. According to the method, the network module receives router information and the account and the password of a router transmitted by a mobile terminal. The router information contains time-related data required for logging into the router; according to the router information and the account and the password of the router, log into the router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lin Yan
  • Patent number: 12169073
    Abstract: A breezeless structure and an air conditioner are provided. The breezeless structure has an air dispersing structure, which has a stationary blade assembly and a rotating member spaced apart from each other in an air-flowing direction. The rotating member is rotatable relative to the stationary blade assembly. The stationary blade assembly has a plurality of stationary blades spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the stationary blade assembly. The rotating member has a plurality of rotating blades spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the rotating member. Each rotating blade is obliquely disposed to allow air to flow on opposite side walls of the rotating blade. Alternatively or additionally, each stationary blade is obliquely disposed to allow air to flow on opposite side walls of the stationary blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengqing Yi, Ansheng Ji, Peng Xie, Qiwei Liu, Fuxing Zhai, Shaosheng Guo, Jian He
  • Patent number: 12167723
    Abstract: A water dispenser including a body and a water outlet mechanism, the body includes a base and a supply pipe inside of the body, multiple mounting grooves set on the side of the base; the water outlet mechanism arranged on the base, including a diversion component including a diversion pipe and a diversion valve installed in a pipeline of the diversion pipe; an end of the diversion pipe is connected to the supply pipes, the other end of the diversion pipe extending into the mounting groove; a linkage component, an inner end of that connected to the valve, an outer end of that extending into the mounting groove; when the outer end of the linkage component suffers an inward force, making the valve move to conduct the water inlet chamber and the diversion chamber; and a resetting component that connects the base and the linkage component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: DS SERVICES OF AMERICA, INC., FOSHAN SHUNDE MEDIA WATER, MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiang Wu, Tyler Ayers, Luis Saldana
  • Patent number: 12163668
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing undesired change in cooking valve configuration. An appliance may include one or more guard members. The one or more guard members may be adjacent one or more control knobs operably connected to one or more valves. The guard member may overlap one or more portions of the outer periphery of the control knob extending from the control panel in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Richard W. Cowan
  • Patent number: 12166357
    Abstract: An under-cabinet wireless power system is mountable to an underside of a wall cabinet that is positioned over a countertop and includes a wireless power transmitter capable of powering a wirelessly powered appliance positioned proximate thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Trice, Brian Langness, Clayton James O′Donoghue, John Kenneth Hooker
  • Patent number: 12163674
    Abstract: A window air conditioner is disclosed. The window air conditioner has a casing, an indoor heat exchanger, an indoor wall and a fresh air housing. The casing has an indoor air inlet and an indoor air outlet, and the indoor heat exchanger is mounted in the housing and corresponds to the indoor air inlet. The indoor wall is mounted in the casing, and has an indoor air duct for communicating an air outlet side of the indoor heat exchanger with the indoor air outlet. The fresh air housing is installed in the casing, and has a fresh air inlet, and a first fresh air outlet and a second fresh air outlet communicated with the fresh air inlet. The first fresh air outlet is located on the air inlet side of the indoor heat exchanger, and the second fresh air outlet is communicated with the indoor air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junhua Zhou
  • Patent number: 12163675
    Abstract: A mobile air conditioner is provided. The mobile air conditioner has a housing and a storage box. The housing is provided with a hidden opening. The storage box has a storage cavity and a storage opening in communication with the storage cavity. The storage box is movably provided on the housing. The storage box has a first position extending out of the hidden opening to expose the storage opening and a second position hidden in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Zhao, Gang Liu, Jingqiang Jiang, Bowen He
  • Patent number: 12163669
    Abstract: A cooking appliance and method of operation thereof in which cooking element drying operations are implemented to drive moisture out of the electrically-insulative material in a sheathed electrical cooking element. In many instances, the cooking element drying operations are of relatively short duration and/or include multiple cycles to drive moisture out of the electrically-insulative material without generating sufficient leakage current to cause a GFCI trip, and in some instances, while maintaining a surface temperature of the cooking element below a temperature that could cause a skin burn to occur and/or for items in contact with the cooking element to be damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Vern A. Neal, Felix Conde Zelocuatecatl
  • Patent number: 12152666
    Abstract: An internal meshing planetary gear apparatus and a robotic joint device. The internal meshing planetary gear apparatus includes an internally toothed gear, a planetary gear, a plurality of inner pins, an eccentric shaft which acts as an input shaft, and a bushing. The plurality of inner pins is respectively inserted into a plurality of inner pin holes formed in the planetary gear, and is configured to revolve in the inner pin holes while rotating relative to the internally toothed gear about a rotation axis. The eccentric shaft is configured to cause the planetary gear to oscillate eccentrically. The bushing includes a fixing structure configured to fix an object member, and the bushing is combined with the eccentric shaft and configured to rotate together with the eccentric shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD., GUANGDONG JIYA PRECISION MACHINERY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Wenjie Lin, Kiyoji Minegishi, Ziming Guo, Tsuyoshi Isaji
  • Patent number: 12152797
    Abstract: A control method, an air conditioner, and a computer readable storage medium. The control method is used for the air conditioner, and includes obtaining abnormal weather information of a region where the air conditioner is located, determining operating parameters of a draught fan of an outdoor unit in the air conditioner according to the abnormal weather information, and controlling the draught fan of the outdoor unit to operate according to the operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA HEATING & VENTILATING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kongxiang Wu, Yongfeng Xu, Hongwei Li, Ruhan Wang, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 12152820
    Abstract: A refrigeration device, a refrigerator, and a control method therefor, a food processing method and a control device. The refrigeration device includes a compressor, a condenser, a throttling device and an evaporator, and the compressor, the condenser, the throttling device and the evaporator are sequentially connected to form a refrigerant circulation loop; a connecting pipeline between an exhaust port of the compressor and a refrigerant inlet of the throttling device in the refrigerant circulation loop is a first connecting pipeline; and the condenser is arranged on the first connecting pipeline. The refrigeration device further includes an auxiliary heat exchange branch, and the auxiliary heat exchange branch includes a condensing heater for heating a heating region, and is arranged on the first connecting pipeline in parallel; and a first valve device is further arranged on the auxiliary heat exchange branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Liu, Yun Tang, Xueqiang Tang, Qingqing Zeng
  • Patent number: 12155501
    Abstract: A status broadcasting method includes receiving a broadcast instruction that is generated according to preset broadcast configuration information and status change information of a household appliance, and broadcasting a corresponding status of the household appliance according to the broadcast instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Ouyang
  • Patent number: 12152824
    Abstract: A system for suppressing the electromagnetic interference of a refrigerant radiator and a household appliance, the system including: a refrigerant radiator, a drive circuit corresponding to the refrigerant radiator, a metal conductor and a filter unit; the metal conductor is separately connected to the filter unit and the refrigerant radiator, the filter unit is connected to the drive circuit, and an electromagnetic interference closed-loop circuit is formed between the refrigerant radiator, the metal conductor, the filter unit and the drive circuit corresponding to the refrigerant radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: Guangdong Midea White Home Appliance Technology Innovation Center Co., Ltd., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junfeng Hou, Dingjun Liang, Jian Hu
  • Patent number: 12146669
    Abstract: An indoor heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger shell, a side plate structure including shell side plates arranged at both ends of the heat exchanger shell, heat exchange fins installed at the shell side plates provided in the heat exchanger shell, refrigerant pipes passing through the heat exchange fins, and connection pipes protruding from an end of the heat exchanger shell and each connected to ends of two refrigerant pipes on same side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Yu, Zhigang Xing
  • Patent number: 12140373
    Abstract: An overcooled meat fresh-preservation control method, a controller and a refrigerator are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinqin Gong, Huixin Shi, Zhigang Wu, Zhifang Ning
  • Patent number: 12139836
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine and method utilize a fluid property sensor to sense a fluid property of a fluid during a wash cycle to sense the level of detergent remaining in a load and control a rinse operation performed thereafter based upon the sensed fluid property. In some instances, the fluid property may be sensed while the load is being spun at a rate sufficient to cause fluid to be released from the load such that the sensed fluid property is based at least in part on fluid that was previously absorbed into the load. In addition, in some instances, the fluid property may be sensed during a spin phase of a wash cycle to selectively cause a wash cycle to selectively revert to an additional rinse phase when required, or otherwise proceed directly to the remainder of the spin phase to complete the wash cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Phillip C. Hombroek, Alexi Blaise Poth
  • Patent number: D1054242
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA KITCHEN APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zeyuan Song, Liangsheng Zhou