Patents Examined by James O. Hansen
  • Apparatus for processing laundry
    Patent number: 10753131
    Abstract: A door for a home appliance includes four hinges which may be interchanged regarding a location on the door, and a series of interconnected arms that allow a pivot axis of the door to be changed from a first direction to a second direction by manipulation of a handle on the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sanghun Bae, Youngjoo Lee, Hongjun Cho
  • Drawer system having primary and concealed drawers
    Patent number: 10750863
    Abstract: A drawer system includes a primary drawer and a concealed drawer. The concealed drawer is concealed in a space under the floor of the primary drawer, between the lower portions of the sidewall of primary drawer. The primary drawer moves with the concealed drawer in a locked state to maintain the concealed drawer in the concealed state, and the concealed drawer moves independently from the primary drawer in the unlocked state to allow the concealed drawer to extend from the primary drawer, thereby allowing access to the concealed drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Black Pearl Woodworks LLC
    Inventor: Michael A. Nugent
  • Garment processing device
    Patent number: 10753130
    Abstract: A door of a garment processing device includes four hinges which may be interchanged regarding a location on the door, and a series of interconnected arms that allow a pivot axis of the door to be changed from a first direction to a second direction by manipulation of a handle on the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngjoo Lee, Sanghun Bae, Hongjun Cho
  • Containment enclosure having two distinct closed positions
    Patent number: 10753142
    Abstract: The invention relates to a containment enclosure comprising two compartments (21, 22) and a sealing system between the two compartments. The sealing system (16; 23, 30) comprises a door (23) having two opposite faces (23a, 23b). The door comprises a transfer support (30) on one of its faces. According to the invention, the door allows two closed positions distinct from one another, in which positions the door forms a gastight interface between the two compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: GETINGE LA CALHENE
    Inventors: Pascal Goulay, Pascal Cochard
  • Pull-out guide for a movable furniture part
    Patent number: 10743659
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pull-out guide for a movable furniture part, including at least one rail horizontal in the installed position, and a drive element for a drive device for the movable furniture part, and the drive element can be fastened on the rail, in particular detachably fastened. The driver element can be brought from a release position in a fixing position with the rail by a fastening movement of the drive element, the fastening movement being carried out in the horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: JULIUS BLUM GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Fischer, Pascal Janser
  • Methods and systems for providing protection against harmful material
    Patent number: 10730192
    Abstract: A glove box for handling harmful material is formed to be lightweight and modular in design, allowing for use in the field and various remote locations where a full laboratory is not available. The tank portion of the glove box is formed of a rigid, lightweight plastic and includes a number of standard-sized passageways for connecting other components (intake filter, exhaust filter, input/output containers, gasketed gloves, etc), allowing for modularity in its configuration. The top portion of the glove box may include a transparent window for viewing the material within the glove box. Filter components utilize HEPA filter elements and a separate, portable power supply is used to control a vacuum fan included in an exhaust filter. The power supply can also be used to perform diagnostic tests on the glove and may include a battery back-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Inventors: Marc Cordes, Paul LaHaye
  • Appliance drawer
    Patent number: 10731867
    Abstract: An appliance includes a cabinet, a drawer cavity defined in the cabinet, and a drawer slidably mounted within the drawer cavity. The drawer is slidable between a closed position and an open position. The appliance also includes an outer panel enclosing a front side of the drawer body. A storage volume of the drawer is defined between the drawer body and the outer panel. A first bracket is directly connected to the drawer body at a first side of the drawer body and directly connected to the outer panel at a first side of the outer panel. A second bracket is directly connected to the drawer body at a second side of the drawer body opposite the first side of the drawer body, the second bracket is also directly connected to the outer panel at a second side of the outer panel opposite the first side of the outer panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: G. Balaji Pawar, Anthony Michael Shaw
  • Domestic appliance including door mounted through articulated hinge mechanism
    Patent number: 10731865
    Abstract: A domestic appliance, such as a double oven range, incorporates a door having a bottom end portion which, when shifted between closed and opened positions, both pivots and vertically shifts relative to a frame body of the appliance through at least a connecting rod, push rod and pivot arm of a hinge mechanism. Due to a combined pivoting and lifting action of the door, minimal to no clearance is required between the bottom end portion and adjacent structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Tushar Jadhav, Sachin Kadus, Sachin Karade, Atul Nalawade
  • Household appliance
    Patent number: 10724784
    Abstract: A household appliance has a case body and a door that is pivotable about a rotation axis relative to the case body. The door includes a doorframe and a front door panel connected to a front side of the doorframe. The front door panel includes a protruding portion that extends out of the doorframe along a length or width direction of the door, and the door further includes a cover member disposed behind the protruding portion. The structure of the door is thus more diversified, to ensure a function of the door, and at the same time, meet an appearance requirement of industrial design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Ping Lv, Chuan Zhang, Yaoguo Xu
  • Framed full access cabinet
    Patent number: 10722029
    Abstract: A full access frame can be designed with a thin frame with stiles that are about half the width of conventional stiles, such that inner sides of the stiles and rails include hidden/blind connection points to facilitate hidden or blind mounting of the full access frame to cabinet sides with mounted dowel connectors that attach to the hidden/blind connection points. A framed full access cabinet includes a full access frame mounted on front of a cabinet box, such that drawer rails and door hinges can be mounted on inner cabinet sides of the cabinet box. The dowel connectors and the hidden/blind connection points can be respectively slide-in dowels and slide-in inserts or alternatively snap-in dowels and snap-in inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: DAVID O. BOONE REVOCABLE TRUST
    Inventor: David Oliver Boone
  • Drawer assembly with integral latch mechanism
    Patent number: 10709241
    Abstract: A drawer assembly is provided. That drawer assembly includes a drawer incorporating an integral latch and a bezel incorporating an integral spring. Thus, the drawer assembly includes an integral latch mechanism to hold the drawer in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Alfredo Peregrina Loera, Francisco Ronquillo, Omar Antonio Ramirez, Francisco Javier Ferreira
  • U-shaped tuck shelf
    Patent number: 10704825
    Abstract: A refrigerator cabinet including a first shelf defining a U-shape, wherein the U-shape is off-center so that a first side of the U-shape is wider than the an opposite, second side of the U-shape, a second U-shaped shelf having left, right and back portions located in a horizontal fashion above the first shelf, and a mounting structure for supporting the first and second U-shaped shelves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Julia B. Burke, Daniel Chow, Juan F. Flores, Todd Tunzi
  • Bathroom management apparatus
    Patent number: 10702060
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bathroom management apparatus having a storage space for various function modules, and capable of dividing the storage space into various sizes. The bathroom management apparatus may include a cabinet, a frame installed in the cabinet to reinforce stiffness of the cabinet; and a function module may include a towel care module. The function module includes an outer case configured to provide a storage space, a back plate provided inside the outer case to form a rear surface of the storage space, and an attachment groove being formed at a front surface at the back plate, a metal plate disposed at a rear surface of the back plate, and a partition removably coupled to the front surface of the back plate to divide the storage space. The partition may include an attachment protrusion configured for insertion into the attachment groove and a magnet coupled to the metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongyun Kim, Seongho Kim, Ungje Jo
  • Wire dishware and cutlery rack for dishwasher
    Patent number: 10694921
    Abstract: A dishwasher, including: a dishwashing compartment having a loading opening; a door configured to close the loading opening; a bottom washware rack configured for movement out of and into the dishwashing compartment; a middle washware rack configured for movement out of and into the dishwashing compartment; and a top washware rack configured for movement out of and into the dishwashing compartment. The top rack is formed of wire thereby to hold washware including cutlery and to enhance drying performance. The spacing between an inner surface of a top wall of the dishwashing compartment and an upper surface of a deepest portion of the top rack is in a range of 79.0 mm to 83.0 mm. The top rack is formed with a notch section along at least one side in a bottom portion thereof, and include an angled portion to hold bowls at a slight tilt with respect to horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: BSH Home Appliances Corporation, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Casey Carr, James Michael Edwards, Matthew Richards
  • Home appliance device
    Patent number: 10697692
    Abstract: For the purpose of improving efficiency, a home appliance device, in particular a home chiller appliance device, is proposed. The device includes at least one panel for at least partly covering an opening of a machine compartment; and a connection unit for connecting the panel; the panel comprising at least one panel module which has at least one fin, at least one first fin mounting element and at least one second fin mounting element for mounting the at least one fin, the connection unit comprising at least one connection element for connecting the at least one panel module, and wherein the connection element is movable with respect to the first fin mounting element and the second fin mounting element in a lengthwise direction of the panel in at least one pre-assembled state of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Yigit Akalan, Ziya Arslankiray, Mehmet Ciyanoglu, Lars Dinter, Emre Emek, Ercan Engin, Hueseyin Sen, Tanzer Yildizgoecer
  • Device and method for mounting a sensor and for sealing a cabinet
    Patent number: 10694850
    Abstract: A device for mounting a sensor, comprising: a bracket formed with at least one guide hole therein; at least one support rod each passing through a mounting hole in a housing of the sensor and the guide hole in the bracket and mounted on the housing of the sensor and the bracket; and at least one elastic element each disposed on the support rod, so that the sensor is movable relative to the bracket along the support rod against the elastic element. Other brackets can be used. The sensor senses when a cabinet door is closed and sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA, ADC Czech Republic, s.r.o, CommScope Telcommunication (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kristof Vastmans, Mojmir Bombera, Zhaoyang (Carlson) Tong, Lin Lin
  • Household appliance comprising shelf arrangement
    Patent number: 10690400
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a household refrigeration appliance and, more specifically, to a household refrigeration appliance with a multifunctional shelf. A multifunctional shelf arrangement is provided, including: a shelf comprising a frame that is physically associated to the walls of an internal box by shelf rails; the frame comprising lateral, front and rear portions, as well as at least one accessory physically associated to the shelf by accessory rails defining at least one track for displacement of the accessory. Specifically, in accordance with this disclosure, the frame comprises a plurality of receiving structures and the accessory rails comprise fitting projections which engage directly with the receiving structures of the frame, so that the attachment rails are removably fitted with the receiving structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Luiz Afranio Alves Ferreira, Edson Isaltino Bento, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: 10684065
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a refrigerator which allows a user to check the status of a storage chamber with a camera without opening a door. The refrigerator includes a body having a storage chamber, a door rotatably coupled to the body to open or close the storage chamber, a frame coupled to the door and including a housing in which a camera configured to photograph the inside of the storage chamber is installed, and a first door bin configured to receive an object to be cooled, detachably coupled to the frame, and located on an upper portion of the housing to be supported by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Mok Kim, Seok-Jun Son, Jung-Geun Lee, Sang Gyu Jung
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: 10684061
    Abstract: A refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises an opening unit configured such that, when a second door rotates in order to open a second storing chamber, the second door is separated from a first door. The opening unit comprises: a latch hook provided on the second door so as to be selectively inserted into a latch slot formed on the front surface of the first door; a pressing portion provided on a door handle provided on the front surface of the second door, the pressing portion comprising a guide protrusion having a sloping surface formed on one side thereof; and a link portion having a contact portion formed on one end thereof so as to contact the sloping surface and to move upward/downward along the sloping surface, the other end of the link portion contacting the latch hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Kim, Seonil Yu
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: 10684062
    Abstract: A refrigerator is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a cabinet provided with a storage compartment, an inner case to define an appearance of the storage compartment, a first door (20) pivotally mounted to the cabinet, to open or close one side of the storage compartment, and a second door (40) pivotally mounted to the cabinet, to open or close the other side of the storage compartment. The second door (40) is provided with a pillar (100) rotatable to come into contact with the first door (20). The pillar (100) is spaced apart from a top wall of the inner case and a bottom wall of the inner case, to be prevented from coming into contact with the inner case when the second door (40) is maintained to seal the storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minsub Kim, Hangbok Lee, Jungkyu Son, Eugene Suh