Patents by Inventor Claiton Emilio Do Amaral
Claiton Emilio Do Amaral 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).
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Patent number: 8794014Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet having a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment. There is a fresh food compartment door for providing access to the fresh food compartment and an ice compartment mounted at the fresh food compartment door. A cold plate is mounted within the fresh food compartment and adapted for cooling the ice compartment when the fresh food compartment door is in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Tushar Kulkarni, Claiton Emilio Do Amaral
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Patent number: 7832227Abstract: A refrigerator having an insulated cabinet and a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet having an exterior face including a dispenser cavity. An ice maker in the refrigerated storage space is arranged to make and harvest ice pieces. An ice delivery system on the inside of the door dispenses ice pieces into a dispenser cavity in the exterior face of the door. The ice delivery system can include an ice bin including a generally open top and having a bottom opening pivotally mounted on a horizontal axis below the ice maker. The ice can receive ice pieces harvested by the ice maker and discharge ice pieces through the bottom opening and the ice delivery system in a first position. The ice bin can tilt out to permit access to ice pieces, and can be removed from the ice delivery system, in a second position when the door is open.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Guolian Wu, Claiton Emilio Do Amaral, Marcus R. Fischer, Marcos Heinzle, Jean Marcelo Ferreira, Luis Fernando Welin
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Publication number: 20090293501Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet having a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment. There is a fresh food compartment door for providing access to the fresh food compartment and an ice compartment mounted at the fresh food compartment door. A cold plate is mounted within the fresh food compartment and adapted for cooling the ice compartment when the fresh food compartment door is in a closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: TUSHAR KULKARNI, CLAITON EMILIO DO AMARAL
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Patent number: 7549299Abstract: A water reservoir for a refrigerator having a refrigerating compartment provided with a front door having an internal panel in which shelves and a water reservoir are removably affixed. The front door having an external face carrying a dispensing valve supplied by the water reservoir. The recipient is superiorly opened and removably affixed to the internal panel of the door between the fixation positions of two consecutive shelves, and incorporates a lower outlet nozzle projecting through the door so as to be maintained in fluid communication with the dispensing valve. The reservoir including a lid removably fitted onto the recipient and provided with an opening; and an over-lid provided with a window and mounted to the lid, in order to be selectively and manually displaced in a plane parallel and adjacent to the mounting plane of the lid between an open position, in which its window is aligned with the opening of the lid and a closed position, in which the opening of the lid is blocked by the over-lid.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2004Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: Whirlpool S.A.Inventors: Ricardo Kolb Filho, Rodolfo Floeter Júnior, Claiton Emílio do Amaral, Edson Isaltino Bento
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Publication number: 20090064704Abstract: A refrigerator having an insulated cabinet and a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet having an exterior face including a dispenser cavity. An ice maker in the refrigerated storage space is arranged to make and harvest ice pieces. An ice delivery system on the inside of the door dispenses ice pieces into a dispenser cavity in the exterior face of the door. The ice delivery system can include an ice bin including a generally open top and having a bottom opening pivotally mounted on a horizontal axis below the ice maker. The ice can receive ice pieces harvested by the ice maker and discharge ice pieces through the bottom opening and the ice delivery system in a first position. The ice bin can tilt out to permit access to ice pieces, and can be removed from the ice delivery system, in a second position when the door is open.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: GUOLIAN WU, CLAITON EMILIO DO AMARAL, MARCUS R. FISCHER, MARCOS HEINZLE, JEAN MARCELO FERREIRA, LUIS FERNANDO WELIN
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Patent number: 7484643Abstract: A liquid dispensing valve having a body portion hermetically mounted to a free end of a discharge nozzle of a reservoir and defining a seat; a rod carrying a seal and being selectively displaced between a closing position in which the seal is seated on the seat, and a maximum opening position in which the seal is spaced from the seat; a cap portion hermetically affixed to the body portion downstream the seat and around the rod, and defining a discharge chamber; and an elongated spout having a discharge end turned downwards, said cap portion and elongated spout being configured and dimensioned so that, when the seat is closed, the mass of residual liquid contained in the discharge chamber forms, inside the latter, a vacuum which is sufficient to retain said mass of liquid inside the dispensing valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Whirlpool, S.A.Inventors: Claiton Emilio Do Amaral, Edson Isaltino Bento
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Patent number: 7469553Abstract: A refrigerator having an insulated cabinet and a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet having an exterior face including a dispenser cavity. An ice maker in the refrigerated storage space is arranged to make and harvest ice pieces. An ice delivery system on the inside of the door dispenses ice pieces into a dispenser cavity in the exterior face of the door. The ice delivery system can include an ice bin including a generally open top and having a bottom opening pivotally mounted on a horizontal axis below the ice maker. The ice can receive ice pieces harvested by the ice maker and discharge ice pieces through the bottom opening and the ice delivery system in a first position. The ice bin can tilt out to permit access to ice pieces, and can be removed from the ice delivery system, in a second position when the door is open.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Guolian Wu, Claiton Emilio Do Amaral, Marcus R. Fischer, Marcos Heinzle, Jean Marcelo Ferreira, Luis Fernando Welin
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Patent number: 7254960Abstract: An air duct arrangement for a refrigerator with forced air circulation of the type that comprises a refrigerating compartment (20) provided with a diffusing duct (23) receiving a refrigerated forced airflow from an air cooling compartment (40). The arrangement comprises at least one distributing duct (60) disposed in the upper portion of a space (V) defined below at least one of the shelves (22). The distributing duct (60) presents a rear end (61) opened to the inside of the diffusing duct (23) and a front end (62) opened to the front region of said space (V) adjacent to the front door (21) of the refrigerating compartment (20) and provided with a plurality of front openings (64, 65, 66) turned to the front region of said space.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2003Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Multibras S.A. EletrodomesticosInventors: Alexandre Cury Schmid, Claiton Emilio Do Amaral, Ignacio Joao Dos Santos Junior, Adriano Cargnin, Rogerio Rodrigues Junior, Edson Luiz Izui, Marco Eduardo Marques
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Patent number: D496056Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Multibras S.A. ElectrodomesticosInventors: Rodolfo Floeter, Jr., Edson Isaltino Bento, Claiton Emilio Do Amaral, Ricardo Kolb Filho