Patents Examined by Levon J Shahinian
  • Patent number: 12256879
    Abstract: A reversible tray for a dishwasher a reversible tray carried by the dish rack and removably disposed within the dish rack to flip between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Fabio Cardano, Umit Can Koralay, Giuseppina Arresta, Mark Steven Feddema, Hrushikesh Chandrakant Prabhu
  • Patent number: 12251062
    Abstract: A cleaner can include a cleaner main body including a suction motor configured to generate a suction force to suction air containing dust on a cleaning surface, the cleaner main body being configured to separate the dust from the air suctioned; a nozzle placed on the cleaning surface and configured to suck the air containing dust on the cleaning surface; and an extension tube to which the nozzle is detachably connected, one end connected to the nozzle and the other end connected to the cleaner main body to guide the air containing dust from the cleaning surface to the cleaner main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinhyouk Shin, Jinho Kim, Hyeri Kwon, Sungjun Kim, Kyoungho Ryou, Jungwan Ryu, Ingyu Yang, Youngsoo Kim
  • Patent number: 12239276
    Abstract: A dosing unit for use in an automatic dosing system of a water-bearing household appliance for automatically dosing detergent tablets, the dosing unit comprising a storage cartridge for storing a plurality of the detergent tablets and a dosing device for releasing a respective one of the detergent tablets, wherein the storage cartridge includes a tubular section for storing the plurality of detergent tablets ordered in a line one behind the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Reckitt Benckiser (Brands) Limited, BSH Hausgeräte GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Rauch, Alexander Schiele, Jakob Schultz, Alexander Sing
  • Patent number: 12240004
    Abstract: A cap is configured to couple to a nozzle of a dish washer that is configured to supply air into a tub of the dish washer. The cap includes a lower cap configured to couple to an upper end portion of the nozzle, a flow cover configured to cover a part of the upper end portion of the nozzle, and an upper cap coupled to the lower cap and configured to, based on the cap being coupled to the nozzle, be spaced apart from and positioned above the nozzle and the flow cover. The cap defines a discharge opening configured to discharge air supplied to an inner space of the cap through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Min Jae Jeong, Jeongkon Kim, Jeong In Kim, Kijoong Kang, In Woo Baek
  • Patent number: 12232681
    Abstract: An automatic dishwasher configured to implement an automatic treating cycle of operation. The automatic dishwasher having a tub and a dish rack located within the dish treating chamber. The dish rack comprising a bottom wall having a first portion defined by a substantially planar portion extending across a first portion of bottom wall and second portion defined by a depression portion extending across a second portion of bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Feddema, William J. Snell, Sachie Kakehi
  • Patent number: 12232678
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a functional cavity and an insulation arrangement which is arranged on an outside of the functional cavity for thermal and/or acoustic insulation of the functional cavity. The insulation arrangement includes a one-piece insulation element of a synthetic material which is selected such that a surface of the first insulation element in facing relation to the functional cavity adheres to the functional cavity and is separable therefrom in a non-destructive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Sing, Heiko Fritz, Andreas Hitzler, Georg Walther
  • Patent number: 12234591
    Abstract: A washing machine includes communicator, a display, a sensor for detecting a water temperature of residual water of the washing machine, and a processor. When the water temperature is equal to or lower than a first temperature, the processor is configured to receive data regarding a temperature of an area where the washing machine is located from an application server. The processor is configured to transmit the received data regarding the temperature to a data server so that the received data regarding the temperature is transmitted to a user terminal device. When the water temperature is equal to or lower than a temperature that is lower than the first temperature, the processor is configured to display a notification regarding freezing of the washing machine. The processor is configured to transmit the notification to the application server so that the notification is transmitted to the user terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeongwon Hahn, Romon Son
  • Patent number: 12226065
    Abstract: A dish washing machine including a housing having an interior wash space and a liquid inlet. A spray nozzle sprays the liquid onto dishes. The machine further includes a heating tank for heating the liquid which is supplied to the rotating spray nozzle. A heat exchange system transfers heat from the liquid heated by the heating tank to the liquid added from the liquid inlet. The heat exchange system comprising a pipe system defining a first path therethrough and a second path therethrough, with the first heat exchange system transferring heat from liquid in the second path to liquid in the first path. A first surface portion of the pipe system of the first path engaging the liquid in the first path having a greater thermal conductivity than a second surface portion of the pipe system of the second path engaging the liquid in the second path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: K.D.W. Company Limited
    Inventors: Kwok Din Wong, Li Zhou, Sai Hin Wong, Hang Yan Wong
  • Patent number: 12220732
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate cleaning system and a substrate cleaning method for cleaning a substrate. The substrate cleaning system (50) includes a heater (51), a chemical-liquid diluting module (52), and a cleaning module. A temperature of the diluted-chemical-liquid mixed by the chemical-liquid diluting module (52) is determined to be higher than normal a temperature and lower than a glass transition point of a cleaning member. The cleaning member scrubs the substrate (W) with the diluted chemical liquid having the determined temperature supplied to the substrate (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Takahashi, Kohei Sato, Koichi Fukaya
  • Patent number: 12221736
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine and method control a time or duration of a drain operation at least in part based upon a type of a load being washed in the laundry washing machine. By doing so, the amount of time in which a drain operation is performed may be customized for different types of loads, and in many instances, may reduce the amount of noise and/or energy consumption associated with draining a wash tub during a wash cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Phillip C. Hombroek, Alexi Blaise Poth, John Kenneth Hooker
  • Patent number: 12220098
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of a container scrubbing device, including a connecting sleeve, The connecting sleeve has a first end part; the scrubbing rod is connected to the first end part, and a first scrubbing piece is arranged at a top side and/or a peripheral side of the scrubbing rod; the guide sleeve extends in a longitudinal direction and is sleeved at a peripheral side of the connecting sleeve, so that the connecting sleeve can perform reciprocating motion in the longitudinal direction inside the guide sleeve; a bracket is slidingly sleeve at a peripheral side of the scrubbing rod, and the bottom of the bracket is connected to a top end of the guide sleeve; and the spring is arranged inside the guide sleeve, and two ends of the spring in a compression direction thereof abut against the bracket and the first end part, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Inventor: Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 12208175
    Abstract: A disposable cleaning unit is described herein including an inner receptacle and an outer receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Matthew A. Rootes, Nathan J. Knutson
  • Patent number: 12186782
    Abstract: A bag washer for plastic storage bags is provided. The bag washer comprises a vertical component and a base component. The vertical component comprises a plurality of intersecting structs to form gaps. The vertical component is configured in size and shape to fit within a space between a first layer and a second layer of the plastic storage bag. The base component comprises a generally horizontal surface from which the vertical component extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Bag Washer, LLC
    Inventor: Sherilou Shelton-Butler
  • Patent number: 12188164
    Abstract: An appliance air/water handling system includes a rotating drum, airflow and fluid paths for directing process air and fluid, respectively, therethrough. First and second heat exchangers are in direct engagement with the airflow and fluid paths, respectively. A reversible refrigerant circuit delivers refrigerant through the first and second heat exchangers to alternatively define washing and drying conditions. In the washing condition the first heat exchanger cools the process air into cooled process air, and the second heat exchanger heats the fluid to define a heated fluid that is directed into the drum. In the drying condition the first heat exchanger heats the process air to define heated process air that is directed through the drum and through a third heat exchanger, and the second heat exchanger cools the fluid to define a cooled fluid that is directed to the third heat exchanger intersect with the heated process air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Claudio Civanelli, Daniele Martinello
  • Patent number: 12185895
    Abstract: A basket is selectively receivable within a dishwashing appliance. The basket includes a plurality of vertically arranged receiving bosses that receive spray tines therein and a lid having a domed interior surface for dispersing liquid dispensed from the spray tines throughout the basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Stevenson Lucas, Arpit Singhal
  • Patent number: 12186446
    Abstract: An instrument reprocessor for cleaning, disinfecting, and/or sterilizing a medical instrument is disclosed. To reprocess instruments having one or more channels defined therein, the reprocessor can include one or more flow control systems configured to control a flow of fluid through each channel. A flow control system can include a differential pressure sensor and a proportional valve for controlling the fluid flow in a channel. The reprocessor can also include a fluid circulation pump which can be configured to supply the flow control systems with fluid and a system for controlling the pressure of the fluid supplied to the flow control systems. The reprocessor can also include a system for supplying a metered amount of fluid to the fluid circulation system. The system can include a reservoir having a fluid height sensor to monitor the amount of fluid therein and a pump configured to supply the reservoir with fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ASP Global Manufacturing GmbH
    Inventors: Nick N. Nguyen, Ujjal Bhaumik
  • Patent number: 12186853
    Abstract: A hydraulic arrangement (HA) for an apparatus (AV) for deblocking optical workpieces (L), from associated block pieces (B), includes a nozzle arrangement (DA) for delivery of high pressure jets of pressure means for deblocking the workpiece from the associated block piece at a first pressure and for cleaning the blocked workpiece and/or block piece at least one second pressure which is different from the first pressure. Furthermore, there is a pump device (PE) which applies pressure in a defined manner to the pressure means and conveys it under pressure to the nozzle arrangement. The pump device has at least one high pressure pump (HP1, HP2) which is drivable by an associated rotary drive (SM1, SM2), the speed of which is modifiable in order to adjust the first pressure or the second pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Satisloh AG
    Inventors: Holger Schäfer, Steffen Wallendorf, Martin Lautz, Gregor Pavel
  • Patent number: 12180095
    Abstract: An electrolysis electrode and a preparation method therefor, an electrolysis apparatus, and a clothing treatment device. The electrolysis electrode includes a substrate, a transition layer, and an electrode catalytic material layer, and the transition layer is attached to the surface of the substrate, the electrode catalytic material layer is attached to the surface of the transition layer, and the thickness of the transition layer satisfies that: electrons can pass through the transition layer. The transition layer of the electrolysis electrode is relatively thin, so that electrons can pass through the transition layer due to a quantum tunneling effect, and thus the electrocatalytic performance of the electrolysis electrode is basically not affected. Furthermore, the transition layer plays the role of transition connection, and can greatly improve the phenomenon of cracks in the electrode catalytic material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: WUXI LITTLE SWAN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingbo Yang, Cunling Zhou, Ming Xiong, Dengjun Wu
  • Patent number: 12178380
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a tub, a base disposed beneath the tub, a door for opening/closing one side of the tub, a door bracket fastened to the door and rotatably connected to the tub, a cover panel that covers the door and one side of the base, and a link module for moving the cover panel in the longitudinal direction of the door when the door is rotated. The dishwasher further includes an upper holder fastened to one side of the cover panel and movably mounted on the door bracket, and a lower holder spaced apart from the upper holder downwards, fastened to one side of the cover panel, and movably mounted on the door bracket. The door bracket includes an upper guide unit for guiding movement of the upper holder, and a lower guide unit disposed beneath the upper guide unit so as to guide movement of the lower holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Myungwon Ko
  • Patent number: 12183551
    Abstract: A gas nozzle according to the present disclosure includes a supply hole having a tubular shape and configured to guide a gas and an injection hole connecting to the supply hole. The gas nozzle configured to inject the gas from the injection hole is made from ceramics or single crystal including an oxide, a fluoride, or an oxyfluoride of a rare earth element or an yttrium aluminum composite oxide as a primary component. An arithmetic mean roughness Ra of an inner circumferential surface forming the supply hole is smaller on an outflow side than on an inflow side of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Noguchi, Tomoya Sahashi