Patents Assigned to Midea Group Co., Ltd.
  • CONTROL METHOD FOR DISHWASHER AND DISHWASHER
    Publication number: 20230301483
    Abstract: Provided are a control method for a dishwasher and a dishwasher. The dishwasher includes a spray rod and a spray rod driver configured to drive the spray rod to rotate. The control method for the dishwasher includes acquiring a predetermined washing signal; controlling the spray rod driver to drive the spray rod to rotate into a predetermined washing region from a current position; and adjusting a parameter of sprayed fluid flow when the spray rod rotates into the predetermined washing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: FOSHAN SHUNDE MIDEA WASHING APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yahui CHENG, Hyoungjun KIM, Shaohe QU, Yajun YI, Liuguang ZHANG, Hui KONG
  • Dishwasher with image-based position sensor
    Patent number: 11766160
    Abstract: A dishwasher and method utilize an image-based position sensor that is positioned to sense the rotational position of a discretely directable tubular spray element driven by a tubular spray element drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bassam Fawaz, Robert M. Digman, Joel Boyer
  • Microwave cooking appliance with user interface display
    Patent number: 11770882
    Abstract: A microwave cooking appliance for increasing visibility into the cooking cavity. The microwave cooking appliance may include a door. The door may include a conductive mesh layer. The door may include a frame supporting the conductive mesh layer. The door may include a conductive and/or sealing engagement between the conductive mesh layer and the frame. The door may include a leak detection device. The leak detection device may be adjacent the conductive and/or sealing engagement. The door may include a user interface display and/or a touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Trice, Brian Langness, Pierce Woodling
  • DOOR BODY STRUCTURE AND COOKING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230296258
    Abstract: A door body structure and a cooking device are provided. The cooking device has a housing that includes a limiting portion. The door body structure has a door body, an engagement member, a switching member, and a handle. The door body is arranged on the housing. The engagement member is arranged on the door body and has a hook. The hook is configured to be engaged with or disengaged from the limiting portion. The switching member is configured to cooperate with the engagement member to drive the engagement member to move between a first position and a second position. The switching member has a connecting segment connected to the engagement member and an operating member slidingly engaged with the connecting segment. The handle is provided on the door body and has a locking groove defined therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: GUANGDONG MIDEA KITCHEN APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jingsheng LIN
  • LATCHING STRUCTURE, HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20230295958
    Abstract: A latching structure, a household appliance and a control method for the household appliance are provided. The latching structure has a snapping member, a bracket, a limiting member, and a driving assembly. The snapping member is mounted on a door body and has a hook. The bracket is mounted on a housing and has a limiting portion. The hook can penetrate the bracket. The door body is connected to the housing in an openable and closable manner. The limiting member is rotatably mounted to the bracket and can reciprocate between an unlocked position and a locked position. The driving assembly is configured to engage with or disengage from the limiting member. In the unlocked position, the limiting member avoids the hook, and in the locked position, the limiting member is suitable for fitting the hook to limit a position of the hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: GUANGDONG MIDEA KITCHEN APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Yongjie CUI, Fangtian SHEN, Gang LIU
  • Method and apparatus for a manual gas valve
    Patent number: 11761637
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a manual gas valve. The manual gas valve may include at least one internal spring and a valve plug. The internal spring may be independent from an external spring and a valve stem. The internal spring may be positioned in a constant installed height. The internal spring includes a constant spring force applied to the valve plug. The one or more manual gas valves may be used in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Richard W. Cowan
  • Microwave cooking appliance with leak detection
    Patent number: 11765796
    Abstract: A microwave cooking appliance for increasing visibility into the cooking cavity. The microwave cooking appliance may include a door. The door may include a conductive mesh layer. The door may include a frame supporting the conductive mesh layer. The door may include a conductive and/or sealing engagement between the conductive mesh layer and the frame. The door may include a leak detection device. The leak detection device may be adjacent the conductive and/or sealing engagement. The door may include a user interface display and/or a touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guo Jun Zhang, Brian Langness, Daniel J. Trice, Pierce Woodling
  • Modulating oven burner control for gas cooking appliance
    Patent number: 11754291
    Abstract: A cooking appliance including an oven compartment, and first and second gas burners positioned to supply heat to the oven compartment. The first and second gas burners respectively include first and second electromechanical modulating valves that respectively couple the first and second gas burners to a gas supply. A controller is used to control the first and second gas burners to heat the oven compartment, and the controller, when maintaining a predetermined temperature in the oven compartment, controls the electromechanical modulating valves of the first and second gas burners to vary respective output levels of the first and second gas burners while maintaining a substantially constant combined output level for the first and second gas burners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Richard W. Cowan, Daniel J. Trice
  • Method and apparatus for scale calibration and optimization of a monocular visual-inertial localization system
    Patent number: 11756231
    Abstract: The method and system disclosed herein presents a method and system for capturing, by a camera disposed on a device moving in an environment, a plurality of image frames recorded in a first coordinate reference frame at respective locations within a portion of the environment in a first time period; capturing, by an inertial measurement unit disposed on the device, sets of inertial odometry data recorded in a second coordinate reference frame; determining a rotational transformation matrix that corresponds to a relative rotation between the first reference frame and the second reference frame; and determining a scale factor from the matching pairs of image frames. The rotational transformation matrix defines an orientation of the device, and the scale factor and the rotational transformation matrix calibrate the plurality of image frames captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Chen, Ke Huang, Wei Xi
  • Water receiving tray and chassis assembly for window air conditioner, and window air conditioner
    Patent number: 11754314
    Abstract: A water receiving tray for a window air conditioner includes a tray body and a wiring body. The tray body includes a water tank. The wiring body is provided at a side of the tray body proximal to an outdoor part of the window air conditioner. The wiring body includes a wiring groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hui Yu, Zhigang Xing, Kangwen Zhang, Ali Zhao, Yu Liu, Wenjun Shen, Yuhang Tang
  • Ice machine, fault handling method and fault handling apparatus for ice machine, and refrigeration device
    Patent number: 11747080
    Abstract: An ice machine, a fault handling method and fault handling apparatus of the ice machine, and a refrigeration device. The ice machine includes an ice machine body, an ice making tray located in the ice machine body, a heating assembly, and an ice stirring assembly for stirring out ice made in the ice making tray. A fault of an ice stirring assembly is automatically removed by means of a heating treatment mode of gradually raising a heating temperature multiple times, the method and apparatus moving simply and quickly, wherein the satisfaction degree of users is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jincai Wang, Yang Shao, Guangqing Yang, Zengqiang Si, Yabing Wu
  • Cooking appliance with unintentional control activation detection
    Patent number: 11747022
    Abstract: A cooking appliance that includes: a gas cooking element; an igniter located next to the gas cooking element to ignite the gas cooking element; a gas valve for regulating gas flow to the gas cooking element; a burner control coupled to the gas valve to vary the gas flow to the gas cooking element; and a control circuit coupled to the burner control and for activating the igniter when the burner control is positioned within a predetermined range of positions, where the control circuit detects when the burner control has been moved through the predetermined range of positions in less than a predetermined time, and in response to determining that the burner control has been moved through the predetermined range of positions in less than the predetermined time, generate an alert to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Richard W. Cowan, John Kenneth Hooker
  • Window air conditioner
    Patent number: 11739954
    Abstract: A window air conditioner includes a casing including a receiving groove formed at an outer peripheral wall of the casing. The receiving groove has an open top, an open left side, and an open right side. The casing is divided into an indoor part and an outdoor part by the receiving groove. The window air conditioner further includes an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor fan arranged in the indoor part, and an outdoor heat exchanger and an outdoor fan arranged in the outdoor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhisheng Lei, Zhigang Xing, Yu Liu, Kangwen Zhang, Hui Yu, Yuhang Tang
  • Window air conditioning unit anti-tip bracket assembly
    Patent number: 11739979
    Abstract: An anti-tip bracket assembly for a window air conditioning unit is disclosed, and more particularly, an anti-tip bracket assembly that pertains to securing a window air conditioning unit within a window assembly while allowing a user to open and close the window assembly in a safe and convenient manner is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: David Leezer, Adam Schultz, Brian Langness
  • Cooking appliance with multi-burner gas oven control
    Patent number: 11739941
    Abstract: A multi-burner gas oven control system is used in a cooking appliance to control multiple gas burners disposed in one or more cooking cavities of the cooking appliance. Each gas burner has an associated dedicated gas valve that is coupled to a gas supply through a common, shared gas valve, as well as an igniter that is used to ignite the gas supplied to the gas burner. During activation of a selected gas burner, all igniters are activated in connection with activating the shared gas valve and the dedicated gas valve for the selected gas burner. In addition, in some instances individual ignition sensors may be used to both confirm ignition of the selected gas burner and detect ignition of any unintended gas burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Vern A. Neal
  • Composition kit for preparing polyurethane foam and preparation method and application thereof
    Patent number: 11739189
    Abstract: A composition kit for preparing a polyurethane foam and a preparation method and applications thereof are provided. The composition kit for preparing a polyurethane foam includes a first component and a second component. The first component and the second component are disposed in different containers respectively. The first component includes an organic isocyanate and a low boiling point foaming agent. The second component includes a polyol composition, a high boiling point foaming agent, a composite catalyst, water, and a silicone oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shihu Zhao, Haixia Yuan, Junjie Lang, Yihui Xing, Yurong Kong
  • Oven broiler gas burner for cooking appliance with variable electromechanical valve
    Patent number: 11739933
    Abstract: A cooking appliance and method of operating the same utilize a variable electromechanical valve to regulate an output power level of an oven broiler gas burner for a cooking appliance. Among other benefits, in some instances broiler control during cooking may be decoupled from oven warm-up, and in some instances support may be provided for automatic and/or user controlled broiler output power levels and/or automated broil profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Richard W. Cowan, Cameron James Wyatt
  • Air fryer
    Patent number: D997630
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bingcan Liang, Yan Feng
  • Washing machine
    Patent number: D998265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjing Liao, Weijia Wang, Shangchao Yu, Jinyu Lin
  • Toaster
    Patent number: D999011
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chenglong Wu