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Utility
Switching device for multi-split air conditioner and multi-split air conditioner having same
1 Jun 21
A switching device for a multi-split air conditioner, comprising: a housing, a gas-liquid separator, multiple first indoor unit interface pipes, at least one heat exchange component, and multiple second indoor unit interface pipes.
Rujiang Zhong, Zhixian Jiang
Filed: 22 Feb 19
Utility
System for controlling motors, and inverter air conditioner
1 Jun 21
A motor control system includes a plurality of inverters each configured to be connected to a corresponding one of a plurality of motors, a plurality of current samplers coupled to the plurality of inverters, respectively, and each configured to sample a phase current of a corresponding one of the plurality of motors to generate a phase current signal for the corresponding one of the plurality of motors, and an operation controller including an analog-digital (AD) sampling circuit.
Junya Huo, Zhaobin Huang
Filed: 25 Mar 20
Utility
Heating control method for controlling food processor and a heating control device thereof
25 May 21
A method for controlling a food processor is disclosed.
Kunren Yin, Weijun Qiao, Shuangjiang Xu, Bin Chen
Filed: 1 May 18
Utility
Rear guard of box fan and box fan
25 May 21
A rear guard of a box fan comprises: a body arranged vertically and a waterproof part arranged on the body.
Runming Guo, Fengxi Yan, Weiliang Liu, Xusheng Zhang, Meihua Deng, Tuanguang Jiang
Filed: 23 Apr 18
Utility
Size determining method and device for fresh air inlet, and indoor unit of air conditioning
25 May 21
The present disclosure provides a method for determining the size of the fresh air inlet performed by a computing device, and an indoor unit of an air conditioner.
Zhirong Hong, Shize Li, Yingqiang Mo
Filed: 24 Aug 18
Utility
Ice maker with three-branch pipe assembly
25 May 21
An ice maker (100) includes an ice-making water tank (10), a water storage tank (20), a pipe assembly, a reversing member (40), and a driving member (50).
Yang Shao, Zhengguang Lv, Guangqing Yang, Zengqiang Si
Filed: 18 Mar 19
Utility
System and method for controlling appliances using motion gestures
25 May 21
A method and system of controlling an appliance includes: receiving, from a first home appliance, a request to start video image processing for detecting a motion gesture of a user; processing a sequence of image frames captured by a camera corresponding to the first home appliance to identify a first motion gesture; selecting a second home appliance as a target home appliance for the first motion gesture in accordance with one or more target selection criteria, including first target selection criteria based on a location of the user relative to the first home appliance and second target selection criteria based on a level of match between the first motion gesture and a first control gesture corresponding to the second home appliance; and generating a control command to control the second home appliance in accordance with the first control gesture corresponding to the second home appliance.
Mohamad Al Jazaery, Suresh Mani
Filed: 9 Oct 18
Utility
Staged oven self-clean preheat temperature control
18 May 21
One or more cooking elements of a cooking appliance may be controlled during the preheat phase of an oven self-clean cycle to maintain a temperature within an oven cavity proximate an intermediate temperature setpoint that is below a self-clean temperature setpoint for the oven self-clean cycle until reaching a predetermined time in the oven self-clean cycle.
Vern A. Neal
Filed: 1 Mar 19
Utility
Refrigerator with variable ice dispenser
18 May 21
A variable ice dispenser for a refrigerator utilizes a variable control suitable for varying the rate of ice dispensing by the dispenser.
Eric Scalf
Filed: 10 Dec 18
Utility
Dishwasher with rotatable diverter valve
11 May 21
A dishwasher and method for operating the same utilize a diverter valve to control via rotation the flow of fluid such as wash fluid or pressurized air to a rotatable conduit supported in the rack of a dishwasher.
Robert M. Digman, Joel Boyer
Filed: 14 Sep 18
Utility
Laundry treatment appliance slider-based user interface
27 Apr 21
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.
Christopher G. Hoppe, Bryan T. Snook
Filed: 27 Jun 18
Utility
Basket for a dish washing appliance
13 Apr 21
A basket for an appliance such as a dish washing appliance.
Joel Boyer
Filed: 30 Aug 19
Utility
Tub with bearing housing insert for a laundry washing machine
13 Apr 21
A wash tub apparatus and method of manufacturing the wash tub for a laundry washing machine.
Bryan T. Snook, Christopher G. Hoppe
Filed: 23 Mar 17
Utility
Electromagnetic heating device
13 Apr 21
The present disclosure provides an electromagnetic heating device, comprising: an electromagnetic heating unit, an infrared heating unit and a MCU.
Hongjian Mao, Zhicai Liu, Zhifeng Wang, Yifan Chen, Jiangping Feng, Zhihai Ma, Dali Ou
Filed: 2 Mar 18
Utility
System and method for customizing portable natural language processing interface for appliances
13 Apr 21
A method and system of customizing a portable voice-based control user interface for multiple types of appliances are disclosed.
Haibin Huang, Chen Zhang, Xin Liu
Filed: 15 Oct 18
Utility
Refrigerator with an adjustable bin
30 Mar 21
A refrigerator appliance having one or more adjustable bins.
Eric Scalf, Vinayak Naik
Filed: 19 Dec 19
Utility
Refrigerator with quick fill dispenser incorporating removable fluid storage receptacle
23 Mar 21
A refrigerator utilizes a quick fill dispenser that incorporates a fluid storage receptacle that is easily removable for cleaning and/or dispensing independently of the refrigerator.
Eric Scalf
Filed: 10 Dec 18
Utility
Air duct assembly and refrigerator
16 Mar 21
The present disclosure provides an air duct assembly of a refrigerator, comprising: a main body, the main body being provided with an air inlet toward one side of the main body, a plurality of air outlets formed in areas of two sides of the main body, and an air-uniformizing partition plate provided on the main body and located above the air inlet, and the air-uniformizing partition plate divides the air entered from the air inlet into the areas of two sides of the main body and the air is discharged via the plurality of air outlets.
Yaodong Wang, Haibin Zhang, Nanfei Yao, Hui Zhang, Jizhe Zhang, Lele Ming, Xiaokang Peng, Yuan Lan, Chubin Ou
Filed: 20 Dec 18
Utility
Refrigerator fluid dispenser with dispensed volume calculation
9 Mar 21
A refrigerator and method utilize first and second sensors to determine a volume of fluid dispensed by a fluid dispenser that incorporates a fluid storage receptacle.
Eric Scalf, Robert M. Digman
Filed: 10 Dec 18
Utility
Method and system for providing control user interfaces for home appliances
9 Mar 21
A method and system of providing a control user interface at a first home appliance are disclosed, the method including detecting presence of a user within a threshold range of the first home appliance, and performing image processing on one or more real-time images of the user to determine one or more characteristics of a facial image of the user; determining at least a first parameter that is configured to trigger a first change in a current control user interface configuration for the first home appliance; and activating a first control user interface configuration corresponding to the first parameter for the first home appliance while the presence of the first user continues to be detected within the threshold range of the first home appliance.
Suresh Mani, Yi Fan, Zhicai Ou
Filed: 9 Oct 18