Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Water routing from cabinet to door of a refrigerator with articulated hinge
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Application No.: US15733612Application Date: 2018-06-20
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Publication No.: US11644231B2Publication Date: 2023-05-09
- Inventor: Gustavo Frattini , Sarah M. Galea , Daniel E. Lottinville , Vikas C. Mruthyunjaya , Abhay Naik
- Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Agency: Price Heneveld LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2018/038525 2018.06.20
- International Announcement: WO2019/245548A 2019.12.26
- Date entered country: 2020-09-15
- Main IPC: F25D11/02
- IPC: F25D11/02 ; F25D23/02 ; F25C5/20 ; F25D23/08

Abstract:
A refrigerator comprising: a cabinet; a door operably connected to the cabinet, the door having a closed position relative to the cabinet and an opened position relative to the cabinet, and the door transitions from the closed position to the opened position in a non-circular path; a liquid outlet disposed at the cabinet; and a liquid receiver disposed at the door, the liquid receiver configured to receive liquid exiting the liquid outlet when the door is in the closed position but not in the opened position. The refrigerator can further include a gasket adjacent to the liquid receiver and a gasket adjacent to the liquid outlet. When the door is in the closed position, the gasket of the door can cooperate with the gasket of the cabinet to form a sealed channel to seal liquid transfer from the liquid outlet to the liquid receiver for use at the door.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210041158A1 WATER ROUTING FROM CABINET TO DOOR OF A REFRIGERATOR WITH ARTICULATED HINGE Public/Granted day:2021-02-11
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