公开(公告)号：US20150101669A1

公开(公告)日：2015-04-16

申请号：US14052847

申请日：2013-10-14

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Andrew Reinhard Krause ,  Natarajan Venkatakrishnan ,  Jonathan Charles Crosby ,  Tyler James Doering

IPC: F17D3/01 ,  G06K7/10

CPC classification number: F17D3/01 ,  F25C5/22 ,  F25D23/126 ,  F25D29/008 ,  F25D2323/121 ,  F25D2400/36 ,  F25D2700/08 ,  Y10T137/0318 ,  Y10T137/8158

Abstract: A refrigerator appliance and a method for monitoring a water filter assembly within the same are provided. The method includes monitoring signal communication between an RFID tag of the water filter assembly and an RFID reader of the refrigerator appliance and terminating a flow of water to the water filter assembly if the signal communication between the RFID tag of the water filter assembly and the RFID reader of the refrigerator appliance is lost or disrupted.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种用于监视其内的水过滤器组件的冰箱设备和方法。 该方法包括监测水过滤器组件的RFID标签与冰箱设备的RFID读取器之间的信号通信，并且如果水过滤器组件的RFID标签与RFID之间的信号通信，则终止到水过滤器组件的水流 冰箱设备的读卡器丢失或中断。