Patents Examined by James O. Hansen
  • Patent number: 11375873
    Abstract: A dish washer capable of effectively decreasing a dry time is provided. The dish washer includes a body; a wash tank provided in the body in order to wash dishes therein; a door rotatably coupled to the body to open and close the wash tank; an air blower spraying out air jet from a front surface of the body to the front of the body so as to allow wet steam in the wash tank to forcedly flow to the front when the door is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-chan Ryu, Jae-woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11371771
    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: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Luiz Afranio Alves Ferreira, Edson Isaltino Bento, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • Patent number: 11371772
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet including an inner case, and a drawer assembly installed in the inner case. The drawer assembly includes a basket which forms a receiving space and can be pulled in and out of the inner case, a supporter assembly connected to the basket to guide an insertion or withdrawal of the basket, and a cover connected to the supporter assembly to cover or uncover the receiving space. The cover may be movable in a direction opposite to a movement of the basket when the basket is inserted or withdrawn. The basket includes a protrusion configured to engage with or disengage from a notch of a connection member to facilitate or prevent transmission of a movement force of the basket to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Changseok Oh
  • Patent number: 11369196
    Abstract: A furniture assembly (1; 101) comprising: —an upper module (3; 103); —a lower module (5; 105); and —a wall part (7; 107) which is arranged for being provided between the upper and the lower module when the furniture assembly (1; 101) is mounted in a room in a mounting position with the upper module (3; 103) provided above the lower module (5; 105), wherein said wall part (7; 107) is pre-mounted to either the upper module (3; 103) or the lower module (5; 105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CONCENTUS PROPERTIES AB
    Inventor: Daniel Hansson
  • Patent number: 11363885
    Abstract: A sliding rail positioning device includes a first rail, a second rail, and a third rail. The second rail includes a second body and a second holding member. The second body defines a first receiving hole. The third rail includes a third body and a third holding member. When the second body is driven by the first rail to slide out, the third holding member is biased toward the second body to be received in the first receiving hole, so that the second body cannot be retracted back. When the first rail is retracted, the first rail presses the second holding member to press the third holding member out of the first receiving hole so that the second body can be retracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-Ju Wu, Chen-Sheng Tang
  • Patent number: 11357327
    Abstract: A cover for a support beam in a storage system includes a plate; an abutment portion extending upwards from the plate; and a guide projection formed on the upper surface of the plate and extending at an angle to the abutment portion. The plate further includes at least one positioning projection formed in a side of the plate and extending along the guide projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Marriott, Iain Clark, Rafael Veiga, Christopher Benwell
  • Patent number: 11352810
    Abstract: Provided is a cabinet door-system and a locking mechanism therefore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KETER PLASTIC LTD.
    Inventor: Ishay Kagan
  • Patent number: 11346597
    Abstract: An appliance mounting assembly includes a mounting bracket with first and second distal arms that flare outward in opposing directions from an attachment body and couple to a panel. The mounting bracket includes a pair of coupling members that extend from the attachment body toward the panel surface and distal ends that curve inward toward one another. A self-clinching nut has an undercut, serrated clinching ring, and base. The undercut and the serrated clinching ring are disposed within an aperture defined by the attachment body. A ladder rack has first and second sides coupled via an attachment wall. The first and second sides define protrusions that engage the pair of coupling members in an interference fit. The attachment wall defines a receiving hole that aligns with the aperture. A threaded fastener extends through the receiving hole and engages the self-clinching nut to fasten the ladder rack to the mounting bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Atishkumar S. Dhage, Sanket Vivek Phalak
  • Patent number: 11339600
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a door hinge system (10) for a pivoting door (30) of a domestic appliance (20), in particular for a pivoting oven door (30) of a cooking oven (20). The door hinge system (10) comprises a stationary hinge part (12) in arranged or arrangeable at or in a chassis of the domestic appliance (20). The door hinge system (10) comprises a pivoting hinge part (14) connected or connectable to the door (30). The door hinge system (10) comprises a driving device (16, 18, 22, 24) for driving the pivoting hinge part (14). The driving device includes at least one motor (16) coupleable to and decoupleable from the pivoting hinge part (14). The driving device (16, 18, 22, 24) is automatically controllable. The pivoting hinge part (14) is manually pivotable, if the motor (16) is decoupled from the pivoting hinge part (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Benjamin Himmelein, Mario Weber, David Joao Machado Martins
  • Patent number: 11333430
    Abstract: A storage shelf for a piece of furniture or a household appliance includes a support plate stationarily arranged on a carcass of the piece of furniture or household appliance, and a storage tray that is positively driven relative to the support plate and can simultaneously be moved rotationally and translationally. Mutually opposed bearing surfaces of the support plate and the storage tray have respective at least substantially closed all-round grooves, in which rolling elements are guided, the bearing surfaces of the support plate and the storage tray having shaped elements that face the respective other bearing surface and that force an at least partly rotatory motion of the support tray in order to move the support tray relative to the support plate from an initial position into a charging/discharging position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Rehage, Stefan Mertins, Reinhard Büscher, Eduard Arnst, Andreas Matthes
  • Patent number: 11330903
    Abstract: A receptacle runner assembly including a pair of opposed sub-assemblies configured to be arranged in a spaced relationship at opposed sides of the receptacle, each sub-assembly including a runner configured to be carried along a first track to be movable in a first direction, a first linkage being pivotally connectable to each of the receptacle and the runner, a bearing securable relative to the receptacle, and a bearing surface configured to be arranged, in use, to extend transverse to the first direction to allow carrying the bearing, wherein the bearings and bearing surfaces are configured to cooperate to displace the receptacle in a direction perpendicular to the first direction while the runners are moving in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ARB Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Simon John William Stickney, James Kenneth Robert Luke, John Desmond Clark, Andrew Harry Brown
  • Patent number: 11324316
    Abstract: An arrangement includes a first pull-out guide and a driver for a drive device for moving a movable furniture part in relation to a furniture body. The driver includes a driver projection to be actively connected to the drive device, a first fastening device with a part arranged on the driver, and a part arranged on the first pull-out guide. One part of the first fastening device is a pin, and one part is a pin-receiving element corresponding to the pin. The pin is positioned obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the first pull-out guide. The driver includes a part of a second fastening device for optional fastening of the driver to a second pull-out guide substantially laterally reversed in relation to the first pull-out guide. The part of the first fastening device is laterally reversed in relation to the part of the second fastening device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventor: Pascal Janser
  • Patent number: 11320153
    Abstract: A system for selectively enclosing an appliance is provided. The system includes a first device and a second device. The first device detects whether a first door is in a fully open configuration. When the first door is in the fully open configuration, the first device sets the appliance into an operational mode. When the first door is not in the fully open configuration, the first device sets the appliance into a limited mode. The second device includes a locking device and detects whether the appliance is in a working mode. When the appliance is in the working mode, the second device engages the locking device to prevent a motion of the first door away from the fully open configuration. When the appliance is not in the working mode, the second device disengages the locking device to allow the motion of the first door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: VIKING RANGE, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Kirk Clements, Martin D. Makowsky, Roger Noles, Wing Tun Chow, Edward Thomas Lucic
  • Patent number: 11317715
    Abstract: An integrated inclinable goods shelf includes a housing having an opening on the front side, an inner frame assembly, and a tray assembly for bearing goods. The inner frame assembly is lapped on a bottom surface of the housing. The housing includes two outer side plates. The inner frame assembly includes two inner side plates respectively disposed between the corresponding outer side plates and the tray assembly. The front end of the outer side plate is hingedly connected to the front end of the corresponding inner side plate. The inner frame assembly is rotatable relative to the housing. The inner side plates are connected to the tray assembly via a slide assembly. The tray assembly is movable relative to the inner frame assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventor: Shihu Long
  • Patent number: 11313070
    Abstract: Disclosed is a clothes care apparatus including a holder unit improved to support a rack. The clothes care apparatus a main body including a care compartment for accommodating clothes, a rack detachably disposed inside the care compartment, and a holder unit configured to support the rack and including a housing coupled to the care compartment and a holder rotatably provided to be received in the housing or protrude from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Ho Chang, Dong Wook Kim, Kwon Chul Yun, Yong Joon Jang
  • Patent number: 11311143
    Abstract: A household appliance or commercial appliance includes a housing surrounding an interior and a support device removable from the interior and a rail system with at least two rails connected to one another and movable relative to one another, and a support element. When the support device is in an installed state, the rail system is mounted on the housing such that the support element is movable relative to the housing by pulling out the rail system. A locking unit arranged on the support device has at least one locking element that can be transferred between a blocking state and a free state. When the support device is in its removed state physically separated from the housing, the locking unit blocks the rail system from being pulled out. When the support device is in its installed state, the locking element allows the rail system to be pulled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Miele & Cie. KG
    Inventor: Sarah Peter
  • Patent number: 11304515
    Abstract: A merchandise displaying, storing and dispensing system (MDSDS) that comprises a modular structure made up of multiple cabinets. The design of each cabinet facilitates the insertion, or placing therein, of items that are typically sold in a retail store establishment. Although the MDSDS can be used for many different items, the MDSDS is optimally designed for use with small liquor bottles. The cabinet do not utilize complicated moving parts, but rather gravity to allow liquor bottles to be displayed or stored, and then dispensed when stored, and then the need arises. The MDSDS offers a convenient space-saving solution to selling items such as small liquor bottles which are often difficult to display and sell. As a result of its modular design the MDSDS can be built to any size/dimension desired or required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventor: Haitham Ghrir
  • Patent number: 11304322
    Abstract: A locking structure applied to lock a first housing of a server cabinet to a second housing includes a main body, a control portion, a driving portion, and a hand-held portion. The main body is positioned at the first housing. The control portion is positioned inside the main body. One end of the driving portion is rotatably mounted to the control portion. One end of the hand-held portion is rotatably connected to the main body and other end of the driving portion. When the other end of the hand-held portion is operated, the hand-held portion moves towards the main body, and the driving portion moves the control portion, thereby driving the first housing to move towards the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS(TIANJIN)CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen-Hu Lu
  • Patent number: 11272785
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a slide device in which retainers provided between an outer rail, an intermediate rail, and an inner rail are guided to be placed at right positions when a drawer is opened or closed, thereby inducing a smooth movements of the rails. According to the slide device of the present invention, openings (312a and 130a) are formed at least in a second retainer locking step (312) and a second retainer deviation prevention step (130), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOPSCO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jengon Choi
  • Patent number: 11267143
    Abstract: A port structure of a containment apparatus is capable of providing a highly reliable port by means of a structure with which a port can be formed in any size at any position and high airtightness thereof can be maintained. The port structure has: a port formation hole that is formed in a transparent synthetic resin sheet defining at least a part of a chamber; an inner ring member disposed on the inner surface side of the port formation hole; an outer ring member disposed on the outer surface side of the port formation hole; and a fastening member that joins the inner ring member and the outer ring member to each other while having a rim portion of the port formation hole held therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Arizono