Patents by Inventor Bryan T. Snook

Bryan T. Snook 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).

  • Patent number: 12264426
    Abstract: A low profile conductivity sensor for a laundry washing machine includes a pair of electrodes that extend substantially parallel to a wall of a wash tub of the laundry washing machine to which the low profile conductivity sensor is mounted and that have respective sensing surfaces that are substantially flush with a housing surface of the sensor housing, and in some instances, with a wall of the laundry washing machine, to reduce the collection of lint and/or hair by the low profile conductivity sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bryan T. Snook
  • Publication number: 20250003134
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine includes a removable agitator that removably couples to an impeller base through a lateral coupling that allows for relative movement between an agitator coupler of the removable agitator and a base coupler of the impeller base along a lateral coupling axis that intersects the axis of rotation of the impeller base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Jianfeng Fan, Lei Sun, Shengye Huang, Chouguo Zhou
  • Patent number: 12043942
    Abstract: A dispenser for a laundry washing machine. The dispenser includes one or more screens adjacent one or more detergent trays. The one or more screens reduce the splashing of fluid to adjacent detergent trays. The one or more screens, or portions thereof, may include a plurality of though openings in fluid communication between one or more sprayers and one or more detergent trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Fan Jianfeng
  • Publication number: 20240209556
    Abstract: A low profile conductivity sensor for a laundry washing machine includes a pair of electrodes that extend substantially parallel to a wall of a wash tub of the laundry washing machine to which the low profile conductivity sensor is mounted and that have respective sensing surfaces that are substantially flush with a housing surface of the sensor housing, and in some instances, with a wall of the laundry washing machine, to reduce the collection of lint and/or hair by the low profile conductivity sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Bryan T. Snook
  • Patent number: 12011134
    Abstract: A washing apparatus (e.g. a laundry washing machine, dishwasher, etc.) and method configure a wash cycle in part based on spectral data obtained from a spectrometer positioned with the washing apparatus and analyzed in a remote cloud service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Paul R. Staun
  • Publication number: 20240102220
    Abstract: An impeller for a laundry washing machine having one or more scooping members. The one or more scooping member may include a variety of positions relative to the impeller. The one or more scooping members may pivot to one or more positions to direct or lift fluid. The one or more scooping members may define one or more fluid pathways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Christopher G. Hoppe
  • Patent number: 11866865
    Abstract: An impeller for a laundry washing machine having one or more scooping members. The one or more scooping member may include a variety of positions relative to the impeller. The one or more scooping members may pivot to one or more positions to direct or lift fluid. The one or more scooping members may define one or more fluid pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Christopher G. Hoppe
  • Patent number: 11859325
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine includes a variable length agitator that is configurable in multiple configurations that provide different lengths for the agitator along its axis of rotation, and that is further biased to at least one of the configurations to facilitate user reconfiguration of the agitator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bryan T. Snook
  • Publication number: 20230383453
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine includes a variable length agitator that is configurable in multiple configurations that provide different lengths for the agitator along its axis of rotation. The variable length agitator includes at least first and second members that are moveable relative to one another both along and about the axis of rotation to vary the length of the variable length agitator along the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Aaron Daniel Abbott
  • Publication number: 20230235497
    Abstract: A wash drum apparatus and method of adjusting the wash capacity for a laundry washing machine. The wash drum may include one or more rear cover inserts that may adjust the wash capacity of the wash drum. The rear cover insert may include one or more impellers. The wash drum may include a rear cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher G. Hoppe, Phillip C. Hombroek, Bryan T. Snook
  • Publication number: 20230175185
    Abstract: A laundry washing machine includes a variable length agitator that is configurable in multiple configurations that provide different lengths for the agitator along its axis of rotation, and that is further biased to at least one of the configurations to facilitate user reconfiguration of the agitator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Bryan T. Snook
  • Patent number: 11629448
    Abstract: A wash drum apparatus and method of adjusting the wash capacity for a laundry washing machine. The wash drum may include one or more rear cover inserts that may adjust the wash capacity of the wash drum. The rear cover insert may include one or more impellers. The wash drum may include a rear cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Hoppe, Phillip C. Hombroek, Bryan T. Snook
  • Publication number: 20220298708
    Abstract: A dispenser for a laundry washing machine. The dispenser includes one or more screens adjacent one or more detergent trays. The one or more screens reduce the splashing of fluid to adjacent detergent trays. The one or more screens, or portions thereof, may include a plurality of though openings in fluid communication between one or more sprayers and one or more detergent trays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Fan Jianfeng
  • Patent number: 11421368
    Abstract: A dispenser for a laundry washing machine. The dispenser includes one or more screens adjacent one or more detergent trays. The one or more screens reduce the splashing of fluid to adjacent detergent trays. The one or more screens, or portions thereof, may include a plurality of though openings in fluid communication between one or more sprayers and one or more detergent trays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bryan T. Snook
  • Publication number: 20210230786
    Abstract: A dispenser for a laundry washing machine. The dispenser includes one or more screens adjacent one or more detergent trays. The one or more screens reduce the splashing of fluid to adjacent detergent trays. The one or more screens, or portions thereof, may include a plurality of though openings in fluid communication between one or more sprayers and one or more detergent trays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: Bryan T. Snook
  • Publication number: 20210212549
    Abstract: A washing apparatus (e.g. a laundry washing machine, dishwasher, etc.) and method configure a wash cycle in part based on spectral data obtained from a spectrometer positioned with the washing apparatus and analyzed in a remote cloud service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Paul R. Staun
  • Patent number: 10988882
    Abstract: A laundry treatment appliance, program product and method utilize a slider-based user interface to facilitate user selection of settings for a laundry treatment cycle. A slider-based user interface, for example, may include a fabric slider control that receives user input that selects from among a plurality of fabric selections and a cycle modifier slider control that receives user input that selects from among a plurality of cycle modifier selections capable of increasing and/or decreasing various default settings associated with various fabric selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Hoppe, Bryan T. Snook
  • Patent number: 10975513
    Abstract: A wash tub apparatus and method of manufacturing the wash tub for a laundry washing machine. The wash tub may include a bearing housing shell and a bearing housing insert. The bearing housing insert may include at least one bearing. The bearing housing shell may be overmolded with a plastic portion of the cylindrical tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Christopher G. Hoppe
  • Publication number: 20210095413
    Abstract: A top panel for a laundry washing machine. The top panel allows for separation from the remaining portion of the laundry washing machine. The top panel may include a door to a vertically mounted wash tub within a cabinet. The top panel may include one or more apertures to allow the user to access the one or more controls or internal components separately mounted from the top panel. The separable top panel may allow for ease of servicing and/or assembly of the laundry washing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Phillip C. Hombroek, Dale Comenzind, Bryan T. Snook
  • Publication number: 20200392659
    Abstract: An impeller for a laundry washing machine having one or more scooping members. The one or more scooping member may include a variety of positions relative to the impeller. The one or more scooping members may pivot to one or more positions to direct or lift fluid. The one or more scooping members may define one or more fluid pathways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Bryan T. Snook, Christopher G. Hoppe