Patents by Inventor Salvatore De Caprio

Salvatore De Caprio 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).

  • Device for defrosting evaporator in a refrigerator compartment
    Patent number: 6266969
    Abstract: A device for rapidly defrosting a refrigerator compartment, such as a freezer compartment or the like, said compartment comprising a plurality of adjacent walls, in correspondence with at least one of said walls there being arranged a hairpin coil evaporator for a static refrigerator, or a part of an evaporator of forced-air type, within a refrigeration circuit comprising a motor-compressor unit, said device comprising heating means arranged in correspondence with at least one of said walls and/or with the evaporator, said heating means being electrically powered via an electrical supply circuit associated with the refrigerator; the heating means are at least one resistance element of PTF (polymer thin/thick film) type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Roberto Malnati, Stefano Tavolazzi, Luigi Sessa, Paolo Sicher, Salvatore De Caprio, Silvano Monti, Daniele Ragazzon, Valerio Bresolin