Patents by Inventor Ademar Testoni

Ademar Testoni has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220282909
    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: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luiz Afranio Alves Ferreira, Edson Isaltino Bento, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20200318892
    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: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luiz Afranio Alves Ferreira, Edson Isaltino Bento, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10677514
    Abstract: A refrigerator door bin assembly includes a door liner defining a first side wall defining a supporting base extending from the first side wall. The supporting base defines a locking channel therein. The assembly further includes a bin body defining a first outer wall facing and positioned adjacent to the first side wall of the door liner. The first outer wall of the bin body defines an alignment channel receiving the supporting base therein. A locking rib extends within the alignment channel to engage with the locking channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Edson Isaltino Bento, Luiz Afrânio Alves Ferreira, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • Publication number: 20190041121
    Abstract: A refrigerator door bin assembly includes a door liner defining a first side wall defining a supporting base extending from the first side wall. The supporting base defines a locking channel therein. The assembly further includes a bin body defining a first outer wall facing and positioned adjacent to the first side wall of the door liner. The first outer wall of the bin body defines an alignment channel receiving the supporting base therein. A locking rib extends within the alignment channel to engage with the locking channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edson Isaltino Bento, Luiz Afrânio Alves Ferreira, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • Publication number: 20180328653
    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: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Luiz Afranio Alves Ferreira, Edson Isaltino Bento, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • Publication number: 20100018989
    Abstract: The present device for dispensing beverage cans is mounted in a refrigerator whose front door is provided with a dispensing opening and comprises: a chute disposed in the interior of the refrigerator to lodge a plurality of beverage cans; a dispensing porthole externally carrying a cradle and being inferiorly and horizontally articulated to the front door, to be displaced between a closed position, blocking the dispensing opening, and an open position, projecting inclinedly to the interior of the refrigerator; and an extracting lever medianly and horizontally articulated internally to the refrigerator to be displaced, by the porthole, from a non-operative position to an operative position, in which it releases the first beverage can of the chute, gravitationally rolling said can over the dispensing porthole towards the cradle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL S.A.
    Inventors: Adirlei Andre Kraemer, Guilherme Nehring, Ademar Testoni
  • Publication number: 20060168760
    Abstract: A hinge arrangement for the front door of a cabinet, comprising a hinge body (20) affixed to a lower front edge (11) of the cabinet (10) and carrying an upwardly projecting hinge pin (30), maintaining a certain spacing from the lower front edge (11) of the cabinet (10) and around which the front door is inferiorly journalled. A shoe (40) is inferiorly mounted to the hinge body (20) so as to be selectively manually displaced between an inoperative position, in which it is operatively spaced from the floor (P) that supports the cabinet (10), and an operative position, in which it is seated on the floor (P), in order to transfer to the latter the weight of the front door and to lock the cabinet (10) against displacements on the floor (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Estevao Espindola, Ademar Testoni, Sthefan Almeida, Jean Ferreira
  • Publication number: 20060064846
    Abstract: An electric supply system for the door of refrigerators and freezers and other appliances comprising a cabinet (10) to which is articulated an end edge (21) of a door (20) carrying an electronic control means (30), comprising a connecting means (15) mounted to each region of the cabinet (10) that is foreseen to receive and affix a respective hinge (40); an auxiliary electric wiring (16) connecting each connecting means with an internal electric circuit of the appliance; a duct (22) provided in the door (20) and having an inlet (22a) opened to the interior of the door (20) and a pair of outlets (22b) opened to the outside of the end edge (21), one of them bearing a tubular hinge pin (42) of a respective hinge (40); an electric wiring (31) mounted through the duct (22) and the hinge pin (42) and having an internal end (32) connected with the electronic control means (30) and an external end (33) coupled to the connecting means (15) adjacent to the hinge (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Multibras S.A. Elletrodomesticos
    Inventors: Estevao Espindola, Ademar Testoni, Sthefan de Almeida, Fabio Pimentel, Darlan Princival Junior
  • Publication number: 20050016203
    Abstract: A condenser for refrigeration systems containing a refrigerant gas and applied to refrigeration appliances of the type comprising an internally refrigerated cabinet (G) presenting external walls (20) which are at least partially defined in a metallic and comprise at least one condensation coil (S) formed by a plurality of tube extensions (10) for conducting refrigerant gas and which are generally rectilinear and mutually coplanar, each of said tube extensions (10) being seated and retained inside a respective groove (21), which is formed by bending the metallic plate of a respective external wall (20) of the cabinet (G).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Estevao Espindola, Jean Ferreira, Ademar Testoni, Alexandre Schmid, Sthefan Almeida, Tadeu Bonassa