Patents by Inventor Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava

Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava 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: 11918009
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, a sealed cooling system, and an ice cream unit. The door may include a door liner defining an icebox compartment. The door may include a chilled air supply opening and a chilled air return opening spaced apart from the chilled air supply opening. The ice cream unit may be disposed within the icebox compartment. The ice cream unit may include a freezing tank, a rotatable auger extending into the freezing tank, a tank jacket, and a unit duct or support base. The tank jacket may receive the freezing tank and define a cooling passage extending about the freezing tank from a jacket inlet to a jacket outlet. The jacket outlet may be open to the icebox compartment to exhaust air from the cooling passage to the icebox compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava, Roger Shawn Nelson
  • Publication number: 20230329280
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, a sealed cooling system, and an ice cream unit. The door may include a door liner defining an icebox compartment. The door may include a chilled air supply opening and a chilled air return opening spaced apart from the chilled air supply opening. The ice cream unit may be disposed within the icebox compartment. The ice cream unit may include a freezing tank, a rotatable auger extending into the freezing tank, a tank jacket, and a unit duct or support base. The tank jacket may receive the freezing tank and define a cooling passage extending about the freezing tank from a jacket inlet to a jacket outlet. The jacket outlet may be open to the icebox compartment to exhaust air from the cooling passage to the icebox compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava, Roger Shawn Nelson
  • Publication number: 20160209102
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance including a cabinet defining a chilled chamber and a first slide assembly is provided. The first slide assembly is mounted to the cabinet at least partially within the chilled chamber. The refrigerator appliance also includes a door with a frame having a first frame member rotatably attached to the first slide assembly at a first pivot joint. The door is rotatable about the lateral direction at the first pivot joint between an inwardly tilted position and an outwardly tilted position. In the inwardly tilted position the door defines an acute angle with the first slide assembly, and in the outwardly tilted position the door defines an obtuse angle with the first slide assembly. Such a configuration may allow the door to form a more complete seal with the cabinet of the refrigerator appliance despite any, e.g., surface variations of the cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava, Dennis John Ruckriegel, Matthew William Davis, Anil Challapalli
  • Patent number: 8931863
    Abstract: A consumer appliance, such as a refrigerator, includes a compartment having opposite sides and a bottom wall. A pull-out drawer is configured above the bottom wall of the compartment. A slide assembly is configured on each opposite side of the compartment and includes a base mounted to the compartment and a slide member linearly moveable along the base. The pull-out drawer has a slide bracket mounted to each respective slide member for movement of the drawer into and out of the compartment. A bottom slide assembly has a slide member and a base mounted on the bottom wall of the compartment. A cross bar is connected to and spans between the slide brackets below the pull-out drawer and is connected to the slide member of the bottom slide assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava
  • Patent number: 8702185
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance is provided. The refrigerator appliance includes a drawer received within a chilled chamber. The drawer is mounted within the chilled chamber using drawer slides. The drawer slides are positioned at a bottom of the chilled chamber and support a bottom portion of a basket mounted on the drawer. Such a configuration can increase actual and/or perceived storage space within the chilled chamber and provide other improvements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bagawathkumar Chellappan, Scott Gabriel Brown, Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava, Sundaramoorthy Venkatraj
  • Publication number: 20130300275
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance is provided. The refrigerator appliance includes a drawer received within a chilled chamber. The drawer is mounted within the chilled chamber using drawer slides. The drawer slides are positioned at a bottom of the chilled chamber and support a bottom portion of a basket mounted on the drawer. Such a configuration can increase actual and/or perceived storage space within the chilled chamber and provide other improvements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Bagawathkumar Chellappan, Scott Gabriel Brown, Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava, Sundaramoorthy Venkatraj
  • Patent number: 8516637
    Abstract: A mobility assist assembly, consisting of a transportable patient support module including a support surface which is modifiable by at least a plurality of upwardly extending and individually height adjustable and articulate-able posts integrated into a supporting carriage. A power transport module can be docked to the carriage. The patient support surface further includes a plurality of individual height or width adjustable sections. A headboard proximate docking module interfaces with the patient support module and a power assist modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: B & R Holdings Company, LLC
    Inventors: Deepak Raj Karwal, Gary Ratzlaff Fulkerson, Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava, Robert Allan Kowalski
  • Publication number: 20120262044
    Abstract: A consumer appliance, such as a refrigerator, includes a compartment having opposite sides and a bottom wall. A pull-out drawer is configured above the bottom wall of the compartment. A slide assembly is configured on each opposite side of the compartment and includes a base mounted to the compartment and a slide member linearly moveable along the base. The pull-out drawer has a slide bracket mounted to each respective slide member for movement of the drawer into and out of the compartment. A bottom slide assembly has a slide member and a base mounted on the bottom wall of the compartment. A cross bar is connected to and spans between the slide brackets below the pull-out drawer and is connected to the slide member of the bottom slide assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava
  • Publication number: 20110030142
    Abstract: A mobility assist assembly, consisting of a transportable patient support module including a support surface which is modifiable by at least a plurality of upwardly extending and individually height adjustable and articulate-able posts integrated into a supporting carriage. A power transport module can be docked to the carriage. The patient support surface further includes a plurality of individual height or width adjustable sections. A headboard proximate docking module interfaces with the patient support module and a power assist modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: Deepak
    Inventors: Deepak Raj Karwal, Gary Ratzlaff Fulkerson, Gopi Krishna Chowdary Vulava, Robert Allan Kowalski