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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7568354 | Refrigerator with improved water fill tube for ice maker An insulated ice making compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The ice making compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7566105 | Movable divider for a refrigerated drawer A rigid divider in a refrigerated drawer is pivotably mounted between the side walls of the drawer and is movable between a first vertical position and a second horizontal position. In the second position, the divider acts as a shelf to support food items. ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7559211 | Air tower with heat trap compartment for top mount freezer refrigerator An air tower is provided for a refrigeration appliance that has a first cooled compartment and a second cooled compartment. The air tower has a diffuser section with a plurality of vent outlets to communicate with the first cooled compartment. A central duct section... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7559119 | Refrigerator handle mounting arrangement A refrigerator includes a universal handle that may be selectively mounted to a front face portion or a side edge of a refrigerator door. The universal handle includes first and second handle ends separated by an intermediate portion, wherein each of the handle ends... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7555815 | Door hinge arrangement A door hinge arrangement for a door is provided including a hinge bearing and a hinge pin adapted to be received in the hinge bearing and being rotatable in the hinge bearing about a vertical axis of the hinge pin. The hinge pin has a protruding cam portion extendin... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552594 | Refrigerator ice maker with improved air impingement An insulated ice making compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The ice making compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7549713 | Refrigerator handle mounting arrangement A refrigerator handle assembly includes a plurality of base members which are initially attached at spaced longitudinal positions to a front face portion of a refrigerator door, with tab elements of the base members extending into openings formed in the door and scr... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7549297 | Refrigerator air control damper for ice compartment An insulated icemaking compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The icemaking compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere i... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7543453 | Measured fill water dispenser for refrigerator A refrigerator with a water dispenser for dispensing water from a source of water through a user accessible water outlet. The water dispenser can include a water valve, a dispensing actuator, and a water dispensing control connected to the water valve and to the dis... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7516531 | Method of assembling universal trim piece system for a refrigerator A universal trim piece system for a refrigerator door having a decorative panel can be employed with either a front mounted door handle or a side mounted door handle. When employing the front mounted handle, the door is provided with a top trim piece, a bottom trim ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516515 | Refrigerator with dual swing door A refrigerator incorporates a dual swing door including a dual hinge mechanism. The dual hinge mechanism includes a lock bar having a first end portion and a second end portion joined by an intermediate portion. Each of the first and second end portions includes fir... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7509818 | Ice making and dispensing system An dispensing system suitable for lifting and dispensing ice through the refrigerator compartment door of a bottom-mount refrigerator or lifting and dispensing ice from an undercounter ice maker to a dispenser on the countertop. ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7501594 | Self contained actuator for refrigerator dispenser functions A ready to attach actuation device module is provided for use with a dispenser, such as an ice or water dispenser in a refrigerator. The module includes an electrical actuation device, a wiring lead extending from the actuation device and an electrical connector att... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7494198 | Corner cover for a cabinet A cabinet includes a decorative corner cover for concealing unfinished corner regions of the cabinet. The cabinet includes laterally spaced side walls that are joined by a top wall to form corner regions having an opening. The cover member includes a main body havin... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7493774 | Control system for a refrigerator ice/water dispenser A control system for a refrigerator ice/water dispenser includes an actuation switch, at least one drive unit for releasing either ice or water, a motor activation relay that controls operation of the drive unit, and a power system having multiple power supplies for... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490915 | Locking divider for a refrigerator storage compartment A divider for a pan, drawer or the like compartment in a refrigerator is constituted by multiple, pivotally interconnected pieces which can be selectively locked in a desired position to compartmentalize the storage compartment. The divider defines an over-center de... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7491327 | Method for accessing a hinge down refrigerator water filter A refrigerator water filter assembly is provided in the ceiling of a refrigerator and is adapted to hinge downwardly from the ceiling for changing the filter cartridge. The cartridge is normally partially recessed within the ceiling so as to minimize the use of spac... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490916 | Refrigerator with multi-piece mullion having stepped offset A side-by-side refrigerator includes a cabinet defining fresh food and freezer compartments, each having upper and lower sections which vary in width and volume along with corresponding fresh food and freezer doors that vary in width. The fresh food and freezer comp... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490480 | Variable speed refrigeration system A refrigerator incorporates a variable speed refrigeration system including a variable speed compressor, a variable speed evaporator fan, a variable speed fresh food compartment stirring fan and a variable position damper. Various temperature sensors are provided to... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7475562 | Ice storage drawer for a bottom mount refrigerator A bottom-mount refrigerator provides additional storage capacity by mounting a refrigeration component, for example a compressor, behind a full-width freezer drawer arranged between an upper fresh food compartment and a lower freezer compartment. In this manner, the... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7472556 | Vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet and method for assessing thermal conductivity thereof A vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet comprises an evacuation system for evacuating an insulation space of the cabinet when pressure inside such space is higher than a predetermined value. It comprises a sensor device having an insulation reference element located... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472974 | Refrigerator with storage bin A storage bin assembly for mounting to a household refrigerator door comprises a storage bin defining a recess and having an opening to provide access to the recess. The storage bin is movably mounted to the door for movement between an opened position where the rec... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472643 | Disposable flavor insert for water dispenser A water dispenser is provided which includes a housing for the dispenser, a dispensing area associated with the housing and including a space for receiving a receptacle for receiving a charge of water from the dispenser, a water outlet through which water is dispens... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472555 | Vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet and method for assessing thermal conductivity thereof A vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet comprises an evacuation system for evacuating an insulation space of the cabinet when pressure inside such space is higher than a predetermined value. The cabinet presents sensor means comprising a temperature sensor and a hea... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7469553 | Tilt-out ice bin for a refrigerator A refrigerator having an insulated cabinet and a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet having an exterior face including a dispenser cavity. An ice maker in the refrigerated storage space is arranged to make and harvest ice pieces. An ice delivery system on the insi... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7458229 | Refrigerator with intermediate temperature icemaking compartment An icemaking compartment is provided in the refrigerator compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. An icemaker is within the icemaking compartment. A cold air duct supplies cold air from the freezer compartment to the icemaker. The cold air duct is formed in the r... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7455085 | Water dispenser for refrigerator freezers A water dispenser mounted on a door of a refrigerator freezer that is provided with a spigot that is movable between inner and outer dispensing positions. The dispenser includes a dispenser housing having a dispensing cavity and the spigot is movably mounted in the ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7438285 | Refrigerator with carbonated water distributor A refrigerator incorporating in its door a water dispenser within a compartment present on the outside of the door, the dispenser being connected to a water container of given capacity carried by the door and provided to enable the contained water to be carbonated v... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437886 | Refrigerator ice storage bin with lid A refrigerator having a freezer compartment having an ice maker disposed within the freezer compartment for forming ice pieces and an ice storage bin removably mounted to freezer compartment door below the ice maker having an open top receptacle for receiving ice pi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437885 | Water spillage management for in the door ice maker A refrigerator freezer having an ice maker positioned on a refrigerator compartment or freezer compartment door. The ice maker is arranged to prevent or manage spills from the ice maker in the event the door on which the ice maker is mounted is opened or closed when... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430937 | Rack and pinion stabilizer system A rack and pinion stabilizer system for a refrigerator drawer. The rack and pinion stabilizer system comprises a pair of drawer glides attached to first and second liner walls of a refrigerator. Each of the drawer glides has an attached rack gear with at least one t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418830 | Refrigerator with forward projecting dispenser A refrigerator having a forward projecting dispenser that extends forward a front panel of the door. The door has an outer door pan with an outer door cavity and an inner liner having an inner liner cavity. An ice chute may be placed through both the inner liner cav... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418831 | Refrigerator with diagonal ice chute dispenser A refrigerator having a dispenser in a front panel of the door. The door has an outer door pan with an outer door cavity and an inner liner having an inner liner cavity. An angled ice chute may be placed through both the inner liner cavity and the outer door cavity ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415834 | In-door water dispenser with door reversibility A refrigerator with at least one openable door has a hinge at a pivoting edge of the door allowing the door to open about the pivoting edge. A water dispenser, positioned on the door, has a paddle which is moved horizontally by a user to cause water to be dispensed.... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410230 | Refrigerator with multi-piece mullion having stepped offset A side-by-side refrigerator includes a cabinet defining fresh food and freezer compartments, each having upper and lower sections which vary in width and volume along with corresponding fresh food and freezer doors that vary in width. The fresh food and freezer comp... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410229 | Refrigerator with bowed mullion A side-by-side refrigerator includes a cabinet defining fresh food and freezer compartments, with each compartment having upper and lower sections which vary in width and volume and corresponding fresh food and freezer doors that vary in width. The fresh food and fr... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407240 | Notched mullion retainer arrangement for a refrigerator cabinet A mullion is attached to a cabinet shell of a refrigerator through the use of a retainer that includes a laterally extending portion positioned between primary and secondary flanges of the cabinet shell, and a longitudinally extending portion that is interengaged wi... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406833 | Refrigerator storage system A refrigerator comprising a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment, a lower freezer drawer and an upper freezer bin. A primary set of glides allow the freezer drawer and the upper bin to be pulled out of the freezer compartment. A secondary set of glides moun... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7401489 | Method of forming a one-piece frame for a cantilevered refrigerator shelf A one-piece frame for a refrigerator shelf is produced from a planar blank having first and second side members that extend at an angle from a central cross member. The side members are folded along bend zones located between each of the first and second side member... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7386992 | Ice maker and dispenser for a bottom mount refrigerator A bottom mount household refrigerator is provided with an ice dispenser in the fresh food door to dispense ice from a sealed ice making compartment within the fresh food compartment. A conveyor carries ice from a storage bin in the ice compartment to the dispenser. | 06/17/2008 |
