Patents Examined by James Orville Hansen
  • Patent number: 10080446
    Abstract: A refrigerated sales furniture (1) comprises at least one refrigerated goods storage space (2); at least two doors (3, 5) providing access to the refrigerated goods storage space (2), the at least two doors (3, 5) comprising a lower door (5) and an upper door (3) arranged on top of the lower door (5). The refrigerated sales furniture (1) further comprises a hinge (4), which is arranged between the upper door (3) and the lower door (5) for supporting the upper door (3) on the lower door (5) and allowing the doors (3, 5) to pivot around a vertical axis (A) independently from each other. The hinge (4) includes an upper pin (13) attached to or integral with the upper door (3) and a lower pin (11) attached or integral with to the lower door (5), the upper pin (13) is supported by the lower pin (11) and the two pins (11, 13) are rotatable with respect to each other around the vertical axis (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ruediger Windrich
  • Patent number: 10076187
    Abstract: A drawer assembly is provided. That drawer assembly includes a drawer and a bezel. The bezel includes an integral drawer centering device whereby smooth sliding action of the drawer in the bezel is provided. The bezel and the integral drawer centering device are molded as a unitary component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Antonio Ramirez Pavon, Francisco Ronquillo Melendez, Jose Alfredo Peregrina Loera, David Castro Duran
  • Patent number: 10072886
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body provided with a storage chamber, a door configured to open or close the storage chamber, a display unit provided on the door, and a heat radiating unit disposed adjacent to the display unit and configured to radiate a heat generated in the display unit via a heat radiating flow path formed inside the door, wherein one end of the heat radiating flow path is communicated with the outside via a first opening formed in an upper end portion of the door, and the other end of the heat radiating flow path is communicated with the outside via a second opening formed in a lower end portion of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keon Pyo Koo, Yong Bum Seo, Chun Youp Shin, Woo Yeol Yoo, Jeong Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 10064538
    Abstract: A dish washer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a cabinet which forms a dish washing space; a door which opens and closes an opened front surface of the cabinet; wherein door includes an out plate which is made of metal plate material and forms the front surface of the door and at least a portion of appearance of a peripheral surface of the door by being bent the front surface, an operating unit which is formed on the peripheral surface of the door so that a user operates by touch, a PCB assembly which is in close contact with a rear surface of the operating unit and on which a plurality of touch sensors detecting displacement of the operating unit are mounted, a mounting bracket which is mounted to be fixed to an inside surface of the out plate, and an elastic member which is mounted on the mounting bracket and presses and supports the PCB assembly to the a rear surface of the operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeseong Min, Taewon Son
  • Patent number: 10051963
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding/pivoting mechanism of a shelf of a piece of furniture or of a domestic appliance for pulling out and raising the shelf from a body of the piece of furniture or of the domestic appliance, which sliding/pivoting mechanism has at least two pivoting arms, which are fastened by means of a first end to at least one of the side walls of the body in such a way that said pivoting arms can be rotated parallel to the plane of the side walls and which are arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other, wherein at respective second ends of the pivoting arms, a guide rail is fastened in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position inside the body to a raised upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail, which is linearly displacable in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened, wherein a damping unit that damps the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Mikel Azkue, Oscar Garcia, EƱaut Arriaga, Iker Lopetegi, Unai Laskibar
  • Patent number: 5551773
    Abstract: A mobile work bench including a top with a lip for preventing parts from rolling off and as a gripping surface to move the bench. A container under the top for storing parts and tools, a hinged door provides access to the area. A recessed area at one end and under the top, recessed and provided with supports for holding wire spools. The workbench has four wheels with brakes, two wheels on one end swivel for ease and convenience of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Inventor: Rickey E. Cottrell