422 patents
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Utility
Beverage brewing device and beverage machine having same
14 Dec 20
Provided are a beverage brewing apparatus and a beverage machine having the beverage brewing apparatus.
Jian Kuang
Filed: 28 Jan 18
Utility
Targeted oven self-clean preheat temperature control
14 Dec 20
One or more cooking elements of a cooking appliance may be controlled during the preheat phase of an oven self-clean cycle to dynamically control a rate of temperature rise to reach a target temperature setpoint at a predetermined time in the oven self-clean cycle.
Vern A. Neal
Filed: 28 Feb 19
Utility
Microwave rice cooker
14 Dec 20
Provided is a microwave rice cooker, comprising a cavity structure, a door assembly and an inner pot (20).
Dingyuan Peng, Maoshun Chen, Xiangwei Tang, Chun Luan, Xuan Wang, Minyong Liu
Filed: 7 Dec 17
Utility
Brushroll and robot vacuum cleaner
7 Dec 20
A brushroll is provided.
Hao Zheng, Fangfei Xiong, Xiaogang Xuan
Filed: 4 Sep 18
Utility
Laundry washing machine with automatic detergent dispensing and/or rinse operation type selection
7 Dec 20
A laundry washing machine and method utilize weight, fluid level and fluid property sensors to dynamically select a load type, control a wash cycle and control an amount of detergent dispensed during a wash cycle.
Phillip C. Hombroek, Christopher G. Hoppe
Filed: 20 Dec 18
Utility
Housing for box fan, box fan and assembly method thereof
7 Dec 20
A housing (100) for a box fan (1), the box fan (1) and an assembly method therefor are provided.
Runming Guo, Weiliang Liu, Fengxi Yan, Xusheng Zhang, Meihua Deng
Filed: 13 Dec 15
Utility
Water softener valve
7 Dec 20
Disclosed is a water softener valve and a water softener, the water softener valve includes a valve body, the valve body includes a valve cavity, and an inlet passage, an outlet passage, and a waste water passage all communicated with the valve cavity, the valve cavity, the inlet passage, the outlet passage, and the waste water passage all extend towards a first direction, the inlet passage, the outlet passage, and the waste water passage are all located at a periphery of the valve cavity, and adjacent to the valve cavity; ends of the inlet passage, the outlet passage, and the waste water passage which are all located at a same end of the valve body towards the first direction respectively form an inlet, an outlet, and a waste water port.
Guohua Liu, Zhifeng He
Filed: 2 Nov 18
Utility
Refrigerator
7 Dec 20
The present disclosure relates to the field of household appliances technologies, and discloses a refrigerator with a separate ice-making system which comprises a refrigerating compartment and an ice-making chamber disposed inside the refrigerating compartment, wherein an ice maker is arranged in the ice-making chamber, the ice-making chamber is supplied with cold air by an ice-making refrigeration system including an ice-making evaporator, an ice-making air supply duct, an ice-making fan and an ice-making air return duct, the ice-making air supply duct and the ice-making air return duct are located front to back, the ice-making evaporator is disposed in the refrigerating compartment and located outside the ice-making chamber, and the ice-making evaporator is communicated with the ice maker through the ice-making air supply duct and the ice-making air return duct to form a refrigerating cycle loop.
Ying Jia, Zengqiang Si, Dongxian Liu, Xuezai Zheng, Fei Lu, Yu Li, Deming Wei
Filed: 12 Feb 20
Utility
Appliance with context-sensitive fixed-position user interface
30 Nov 20
An appliance and method utilize a context-sensitive fixed-position user interface including cycle type controls used to select a cycle type and cycle configuration controls used to configure settings associated with particular cycle types.
Christopher G. Hoppe
Filed: 27 Jun 18
Utility
Refrigerator with door-mounted fluid dispenser
30 Nov 20
A refrigerator combines an externally-accessible door-mounted fluid or water dispenser outlet with an externally-accessible case-mounted ice dispenser outlet and/or an externally-accessible case-mounted fluid dispenser control.
Eric Scalf
Filed: 9 Dec 18
Utility
Dishwasher including spray basket with integrated external sprayer
30 Nov 20
A method and dishwasher utilize a spray basket that includes a container body that defines a compartment for retaining utensils as well as multiple sets of nozzles, a portion of which are configured to direct a spray of fluid into the compartment, and another portion of which are configured to direct a spray of fluid external from the container body.
Mark W. Wilson, Timothy Martin Wetzel, Scott A. Stinebruner
Filed: 15 Dec 16
Utility
Refrigerating device
30 Nov 20
A refrigerating device includes a cabinet, a condenser and a dehumidifying device.
Benlei Liang, Pingfang Li, Chao Liu
Filed: 29 May 16
Utility
Wireless sensor in a microwave oven
30 Nov 20
A microwave oven is described herein.
Paul R. Staun, Bryan T. Snook
Filed: 25 Jun 18
Utility
Refrigerator with variable fluid dispenser
23 Nov 20
A variable fluid dispenser for a refrigerator utilizes a variable control suitable for varying the rate of fluid dispensing by the dispenser.
Eric Scalf, Mark W. Wilson, Paul Staun
Filed: 9 Dec 18
Utility
Method and system for controlling clothing care machine
23 Nov 20
A clothing care machine and a method and system for controlling the same are provided.
Zhiqi Yang, Zhijiang He, Bo Xie
Filed: 26 Oct 15
Utility
Refrigerator icemaking system with tandem storage bins and/or removable dispenser recess
16 Nov 20
A refrigerator utilizes in some instances an icemaker having a tandem arrangement of storage bins.
Eric Scalf
Filed: 7 Dec 17
Utility
Fully submergible sous vide device
9 Nov 20
A sous vide device and method of using the same may include a body that is fully submergible in a container of water and may wirelessly communicate with an external device, e.g., to control an external heating element during sous vide cooking.
Daniel J. Trice, Robert Digman, Paul R. Staun
Filed: 28 Sep 17
Utility
Blind signal separation method and structure, voice control system, and electrical appliance assembly
2 Nov 20
A blind signal separation method includes: performing noise reduction preprocessing on a detected voice signal, wherein the voice signal is a linear superposition signal of a plurality of simultaneous signal source voice messages; constructing, by means of non-Gaussian measurement, a target function for the preprocessed voice signal; estimating, by means of an iterative algorithm, an expectation-maximization separation matrix W of the target function; and deriving an estimated target separation signal U(n) from U(n)=WX(n), wherein X(n) is a vector constructed by the plurality of signal source voice messages.
Yan Wang, Hailei Chen
Filed: 25 Sep 17
Utility
Coarse-to-fine hand detection method using deep neural network
26 Oct 20
Embodiments provide a process to identify one or more areas containing a hand or hands of one or more subjects in an image.
Zixuan Yang, Dahai Yu, Zhuang Liu, Junyang Zhou, Xiujuan Chai, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen
Filed: 19 Dec 18
Utility
System and method for temperature sensing in cooking appliance with data fusion
26 Oct 20
A cooking chamber includes thermal camera of a lower resolution and a color camera of a higher resolution.
Qiang Liu, Xin Yan
Filed: 12 Sep 19