Patents by Inventor David W. Carr
David W. Carr 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: 10704176Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover to terminate in a tip.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: David W. Carr, Dale E. Mueller, Basak Oguz, Jon D. Strait
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Patent number: 10450686Abstract: A laundry mover for a laundry treating appliance may include a protrusion located on an upper side of the laundry mover and forming an open-bottom cavity. The protrusion may have at least one opening fluidly communicating the cavity with a portion of the treating chamber above the protrusion. A diverter may be located on a lower side of the laundry mover.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: David W. Carr, Dale E. Mueller, Mary E. Zeitler
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Publication number: 20190093272Abstract: A laundry mover for a laundry treating appliance may include a protrusion located on an upper side of the laundry mover and forming an open-bottom cavity. The protrusion may have at least one opening fluidly communicating the cavity with a portion of the treating chamber above the protrusion. A diverter may be located on a lower side of the laundry mover.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: DAVID W. CARR, DALE E. MUELLER, MARY E. ZEITLER
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Patent number: 10179962Abstract: A laundry mover for a laundry treating appliance may include a protrusion located on an upper side of the laundry mover and forming an open-bottom cavity. The protrusion may have at least one opening fluidly communicating the cavity with a portion of the treating chamber above the protrusion. A diverter may be located on a lower side of the laundry mover.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: David W. Carr, Dale E. Mueller, Mary E. Zeitler
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Patent number: 9926658Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Darryl C. Bodine, David W. Carr, Dale E. Mueller, Basak Oguz, Jon D. Strait
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Publication number: 20170342620Abstract: A laundry mover for a laundry treating appliance may include a protrusion located on an upper side of the laundry mover and forming an open-bottom cavity. The protrusion may have at least one opening fluidly communicating the cavity with a portion of the treating chamber above the protrusion. A diverter may be located on a lower side of the laundry mover.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: DAVID W. CARR, DALE E. MUELLER, MARY E. ZEITLER
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Patent number: 9777418Abstract: A laundry mover for a laundry treating appliance may include a protrusion located on an upper side of the laundry mover and forming an open-bottom cavity. The protrusion may have at least one opening fluidly communicating the cavity with a portion of the treating chamber above the protrusion. A diverter may be located on a lower side of the laundry mover such that rotation of the laundry mover brings the diverter into contact with liquid in a portion of the treating chamber underneath the laundry mover, and the diverter directs the liquid through the cavity to expel the liquid through the at least one opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: David W. Carr, Dale E. Mueller, Mary E. Zeitler
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Patent number: 9739003Abstract: A laundry treating appliance may include a treating chamber receiving laundry for treatment and a laundry mover mounted within the treating chamber for rotation about a rotation axis. The laundry mover may have a base made of a first material and a plurality of protrusions made of a different second material. At least portions of the upper surfaces of the base and the protrusions collectively form an upper surface of the laundry mover such that the laundry mover upper surface is at least partially formed of the differing first and second materials. The first material may be metal, and the second material may be plastic.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: David W. Carr, John W. McConnell, Basak Oguz, Jon D. Strait
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Publication number: 20170088993Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: DARRYL C. BODINE, DAVID W. CARR, DALE E. MUELLER, BASAK OGUZ, JON D. STRAIT
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Patent number: 9556549Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover to terminate in a tip.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Darryl C. Bodine, David W. Carr, Dale E. Mueller, Basak Oguz, Jon D. Strait
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Publication number: 20160230327Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover to terminate in a tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: DAVID W. CARR, DALE E. MUELLER, BASAK OGUZ, JON D. STRAIT
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Patent number: 9347166Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover to terminate in a tip.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: David W. Carr, Dale E. Mueller, Basak Oguz, Jon D. Strait
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Publication number: 20150337474Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover to terminate in a tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: DARRYL C. BODINE, DAVID W. CARR, DALE E. MUELLER, BASAK OGUZ, JON D. STRAIT
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Patent number: 9115452Abstract: A laundry treating appliance may include a drum and an impeller. The impeller may have a raised center, a bottom plate, a transition region between the bottom plate and the raised center, a center post extending upward from the raised center, and a plurality of radial protrusions extending along the raised center, the bottom plate, and the transition region.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: David W. Carr, Joseph L. Moulton, Dale E. Mueller, Jon D. Strait
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Publication number: 20150033803Abstract: A laundry mover for a laundry treating appliance may include a protrusion located on an upper side of the laundry mover and forming an open-bottom cavity. The protrusion may have at least one opening fluidly communicating the cavity with a portion of the treating chamber above the protrusion. A diverter may be located on a lower side of the laundry mover such that rotation of the laundry mover brings the diverter into contact with liquid in a portion of the treating chamber underneath the laundry mover, and the diverter directs the liquid through the cavity to expel the liquid through the at least one opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: DAVID W. CARR, DALE E. MUELLER, MARY E. ZEITLER
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Publication number: 20150000352Abstract: A laundry treating appliance may include a treating chamber receiving laundry for treatment and a laundry mover mounted within the treating chamber for rotation about a rotation axis. The laundry mover may have a base made of a first material and a plurality of protrusions made of a different second material. At least portions of the upper surfaces of the base and the protrusions collectively form an upper surface of the laundry mover such that the laundry mover upper surface is at least partially formed of the differing first and second materials. The first material may be metal, and the second material may be plastic.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: DAVID W. CARR, JOHN W. MCCONNELL, BASAK OGUZ, JON D. STRAIT
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Patent number: 8886677Abstract: A pipelined search engine supports a tree of search keys therein that utilizes span prefix masks to assist in longest prefix match (LPM) detection when the tree is searched. Each of a plurality of the span prefix masks encodes a prefix length of a search key to which the span prefix mask is associated and a value of another search key in the tree that is a prefix match to the search key to which the span prefix mask is associated.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Gary Depelteau, David W. Carr
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Publication number: 20140096568Abstract: A laundry treating appliance may include a drum and an impeller. The impeller may have a raised center, a bottom plate, a transition region between the bottom plate and the raised center, a center post extending upward from the raised center, and a plurality of radial protrusions extending along the raised center, the bottom plate, and the transition region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: DAVID W. CARR, JOSEPH L. MOULTON, DALE E. MUELLER, JON D. STRAIT
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Publication number: 20130326822Abstract: A washing machine for treating laundry comprising a basket rotatable about a first rotational axis, having a peripheral side wall extending upwardly from a bottom wall to at least partially define a treating chamber; a clothes mover proximate the bottom wall, having a base with a centrally located hub concentric with a second rotational axis about which the clothes mover reciprocally rotates; and at least one vane having an elongated body extending away from the hub and projecting upwardly from the clothes mover to terminate in a tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: DAVID W. CARR, DALE E. MUELLER, BASAK OGUZ, JON D. STRAIT
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Patent number: 7725450Abstract: A search engine includes a pipelined arrangement of a plurality of search and tree maintenance sub-engines therein, which are configured to support the performance of search operations on exclusively valid multi-way trees of search prefixes concurrently with the performance of update operations on the multi-way trees as they are being searched.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Gary Depelteau, David W. Carr