Patents Examined by Rita P Adhlakha
  • Patent number: 10376130
    Abstract: A warewash machine for washing wares includes a chamber for receiving wares, the chamber having at least one wash zone with an associated spray system for spraying liquid onto wares passing therethrough, wherein a downstream drying zone includes a blower for blowing air onto wares passing therethrough. The blower includes an ambient intake operatively connected to an ambient air flow path, a machine intake operatively connected to an internal machine air flow path and an exhaust intake operatively connected to a machine exhaust air flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Joseph F. Sanders, Alexander R. Anim-Mensah, Mary E. Paulus
  • Patent number: 10350655
    Abstract: A glass pipe cleaner comprising, in operative combination, a threaded reducer, a staged telescopic boot, an end clamp, and a worm drive clamp. The threaded reducer is configured for mounting onto a conventional water faucet. Once mounted, a user inserts a mouth end portion of a glass pipe, into the staged telescopic boot and cinches the mouth end portion in position by tightening the worm drive clamp over an exterior of the staged telescopic boot. In operation, hot water is pressurized by the threaded reducer and floods an intermediary tube of the glass pipe with extreme force. The force of the pressurized hot water removes deposits from walls of the intermediary tube of the glass pipe. Dirty water carrying the removed deposits flows out of a second end of the glass pipe into a sink for easy disposal. In another embodiment, the glass pipe cleaner includes a waste bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventor: Douglas Miranda
  • Patent number: 10349807
    Abstract: A foreign object protection system for dishwashers is disclosed. The foreign object protection system prevents large objects from damaging other components of a dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Mark S. Feddema
  • Patent number: 10349808
    Abstract: A dishwashing appliance having a static jet assembly is provided herein. The dishwashing appliance may include a tub defining a wash chamber, a pump, and a spray assembly. The pump may be configured to deliver a wash fluid into the wash chamber. The spray assembly may be housed within the wash chamber of the tub in fluid communication with the pump to receive wash fluid therefrom. The static jet assembly may be disposed within the wash chamber and include a static body. The static body may extend about an exterior hole. The static body may define an interior passage and a jet aperture in fluid communication with the pump. The jet aperture may be defined in fluid communication between the interior passage and the wash chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Bassam Fawaz, Daniel J. Hart, John Edward Dries, Kyle Durham, Matthew David Mersch, Glenn Leon Graham
  • Patent number: 10342406
    Abstract: A warewash machine for washing wares includes a chamber for receiving wares, the chamber having at least one spray zone. A spray system is provided in the spray zone for spraying liquid onto wares for cleaning. A tank captures sprayed liquid that falls within the spray zone. The tank includes a primary recirculation path for delivering liquid from the tank to the spray system, and a secondary recirculation path for delivering water out of the tank and back into the tank, without spraying within the spray zone, in order promote mixing within the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Alexander R. Anim-Mensah, Mary E. Paulus
  • Patent number: 10335010
    Abstract: A dishwasher may include a tub configured to accommodate one or more items to be washed, a spray arm rotatably mounted to the tub, and configured to spray water onto the one or more items to be washed, a sump disposed at a bottom surface of the tub and configured to store water and to supply stored water to the spray arm, a fixed gear unit fixed to the tub with gear teeth arranged along an outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear unit, a rotary gear unit rotatably mounted on the spray arm and configured to engage the gear teeth of the fixed gear unit, and a link member connected to the rotary gear unit and the spray arm, where the spray arm may include, a main arm with a pair of arms, and a pair of auxiliary arms rotatably connected to the main arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seyoung Woo, Joonho Pyo, Daegyu Kim
  • Patent number: 10286424
    Abstract: A cleaning system includes a first container. The first container includes an interior surface and an opening. The interior surface and the opening define a volume. The opening extends along a plane. The interior surface defines at least a portion of a curved surface. The curved surface defines a first focus point. The first focus point is positioned below the plane such that the first focus point is coincident with a portion of the curved surface. The cleaning system further includes a support member and a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument is configured to deliver ultrasonic energy upon activation of the instrument. The surgical instrument comprises an end effector having a distal tip. The support member is configured to support the surgical instrument such that the distal tip is positioned substantially at the first focus point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Foster B. Stulen, Eitan T. Wiener
  • Patent number: 10246809
    Abstract: A washing machine includes an alternating current (AC) motor which generates torque, a clutch assembly which selectively transfers the torque to a rotating tub and a pulsator, a speed detector which detects a rotary speed of the clutch assembly, and a controller configured to repetitively perform operating and stopping the operating of the AC motor based on a predetermined target speed and the rotary speed of the clutch assembly in a spin-drying operation. The controller gradually increases the torque of the AC motor while operating the AC motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Oh Kim, Jun Hyun Park, Sung Mo Lee
  • Patent number: 10227722
    Abstract: A laundry machine having a refreshing operation and a control method of the same are disclosed. The disclosed method comprises a steam water supply operation of supplying wash water to a tub up to a water level for generation of steam while preventing the wash water to pass through a drum, when the refreshing course is selected, a steaming operation of heating the wash water by driving a washing heater, thereby generating steam, and a refreshing operation of refreshing the laundry by alternately executing, after the steaming operation, a tumbling driving operation to tumble the laundry within the drum through rotation of the drum and a spin driving operation to rotate the laundry within the drum in close contact with an inner surface of the drum, in accordance with high-speed rotation of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Heunggi Kim, Jaemun Kim, Chanwoo Jung, Kilryong Lee
  • Patent number: 10190251
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus is provided that may include a cabinet having an introduction port for introduction of laundry and an opening that communicates with an outside of the cabinet, a tub arranged in the cabinet and provided with a tub introduction port that communicates with the introduction port, and a detergent supply module that stores a detergent and provides the stored detergent to the tub, the detergent supply module being detachably provided at the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Mingyu Jo, Dongwon Kim, Kyosoon Chae, Naeun Kim
  • Patent number: 10178938
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a slide system for sliding movement of a dish rack in and out of a wash chamber, and a pivot system to enable cooperative pivoting of the dish rack and an access door when the dish rack at least partially overlies the door and the door is pivoted from an opened to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Whirpool Corporation
    Inventors: Harshal J. Bhajak, Christopher C. Wilcox
  • Patent number: 10160013
    Abstract: A rinsing bath which can simplify a discharging structure of a rinsing liquid is disclosed. The rinsing bath includes an inner bath for storing the rinsing liquid, an overflow bath configured to receive the rinsing liquid overflowing the inner bath, a stopper for closing a drain hole provided on a bottom of the inner bath, an actuator configured to move the stopper between a closing position in which the stopper closes the drain hole and a opening position in which the stopper is away from the drain hole, a rinsing liquid supply pipe configured to supply the rinsing liquid into the inner bath, and a drain pipe coupled to a bottom of the overflow bath. The drain hole communicates between an inside of the inner bath and an inside of the overflow bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Sekimoto, Toshio Yokoyama, Kenichi Kobayashi, Kenichi Akazawa
  • Patent number: 10160012
    Abstract: A cup intermediate portion and a cup lower portion surround a substrate. The cup intermediate portion is arranged above an upper surface of the cup lower portion. A sidewall surrounds the cup intermediate portion and the cup lower portion. A spacing between the upper surface of the cup lower portion and a lower surface of the cup intermediate portion gradually decreases outward from an outer peripheral portion of the substrate while a clearance is formed between the lower surface of the cup intermediate portion and the upper surface of the cup lower portion in respective outer peripheral portions of the cup intermediate portion and the cup lower portion. An inner peripheral surface of the sidewall is spaced apart from the clearance outside the clearance and surrounds the clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Sugiyama, Hiroshi Yoshii, Kazuo Morioka
  • Patent number: 10150202
    Abstract: A small automatic polishing liquid cleaning device for rigid gas permeable contact lens includes a container; a containing chamber is provided inside the container; an exhaust pipe, and a liquid suction pipe, which communicates with the containing chamber disposed on the container; an outlet end of the exhaust pipe communicates with a vacuum orifice of a vacuum generator via a connector, a gas inlet of the vacuum generator communicates with a pipeline for a compressed gas, and a liquid inlet of the liquid suction pipe is disposed at the bottom of a waste liquid trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: WENZHOU FOCUSEE VISION CARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERISTY, MENICON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Jiang, Hao Chen, Ying Shi, Atsuhiro Doke, Zhaolin Xia
  • Patent number: 10145052
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a washing machine comprising: a cabinet; a tub which is accommodated in said cabinet, and accommodates wash water therein; a drum which is installed in said tub to be rotated, an accommodates the laundry; a sump which is equipped on the lower part of said tub such that the wash water is collected; a drain chamber which is connected to the lower part of a drain formed on a bottom surface of said sump, and in which the wash water drained from said drain is temporarily stored; a pump which circulates the wash water drained from said drain chamber; and a drain-side circulation flow path which forms a path in which the wash water circulates between said drain chamber and said pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyeonghwan Kim, Rayoung Park
  • Patent number: 10141206
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a washing liquid supply unit which supplies a washing liquid to a washing liquid discharge port which is open in the outer circumferential surface of a body, a rotation unit which relatively rotates the opposing member and the body around a rotational axis passing through the central portion of the upper surface of the substrate and a washing control unit which controls the washing liquid supply unit and the rotation unit so as to wash the cylindrical gap, where the washing control unit performs a rotation step of controlling the rotation unit so as to relatively rotate the opposing member and the body and a washing liquid discharging step of controlling the washing liquid supply unit so as to discharge a washing liquid from the washing liquid discharge port simultaneously with the rotation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihito Morioka
  • Patent number: 10123677
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a slide system for sliding movement of a dish rack in and out of a wash chamber, and a pivot system to enable cooperative pivoting of the dish rack and an access door when the dish rack at least partially overlies the door and the door is pivoted from an opened to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus R. Fischer, Christopher C. Wilcox, Daniel S. Mead, Jamie T. Weinert
  • Patent number: 10119216
    Abstract: A laundry treating appliance may include a tub and a basket located at least partially within the tub and at least partially defining a laundry treating chamber. A drive system may operatively couple the tub to the basket and may be operative to rotate the basket about a rotational axis. The tub and the basket may each have similar deflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventor: Brenner M. Sharp
  • Patent number: 10119217
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine (1) includes an outer casing (2) and an appliance control panel (6) located on a front wall (3) of the casing (2). The appliance control panel (6) is arranged on a front side of a drawer-like supporting structure (13) which is inserted in extractable manner into a corresponding drawer housing (14). The drawer-like supporting structure (13) is movable inside the drawer housing (14) between a retracted position and a completely extracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Maurizio Del Pos, Daniele Favaro
  • Patent number: 10099263
    Abstract: A washing and drying machine has a treatment tub and comprises: a washing circuit, for drawing liquid from the tub and conveying it back into the tub, having a pump and means for heating the liquid; a drying circuit for extracting air from the tub and conveying it back into the tub, having a first fan, means for dehumidifying the air, and means for heating the dehumidified air; and a heat-pump arrangement having a refrigerating circuit for a refrigerant fluid, which includes a first condenser, a first evaporator, a first lamination valve, and a compressor. The means for heating the liquid comprise the first condenser, and the refrigerating circuit further comprises a second condenser, in series to the first condenser, and a second evaporator. The means for dehumidifying the air comprise the second evaporator, and the means for heating the dehumidified air comprise the second condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Indesit Company, S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Cagnasso, Mario Lippera, Gianluca Benedetto, Luca Brazzarola, Diego Driussi, Ivan Murador