INDOOR GARDENING APPLIANCE INCLUDING GROW MODULE HAVING INTEGRAL WATER COLLECTING RIBS

    公开(公告)号:US20230088481A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-23

    申请号:US17483068

    申请日:2021-09-23

    IPC分类号: A01G31/06

    摘要: A gardening appliance includes a liner positioned within a cabinet and defining a grow chamber, and a grow tower is positioned within the grow chamber and includes a module support frame rotatably mounted within the grow chamber and a grow module mounted to the module support frame to at least partially define a root chamber and defining an aperture for receiving a plant pod. One or more water collecting ribs extend from an inner surface of the grow module into the root chamber, the one or more water collecting ribs being oriented toward the aperture for directing collected condensation toward the aperture.

    REFRIGERATOR APPLIANCE HAVING USB FEATURES

    公开(公告)号:US20210055043A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-25

    申请号:US16547876

    申请日:2019-08-22

    IPC分类号: F25D29/00 H01R25/16 F25D25/02

    摘要: A refrigerator appliance having Universal Serial Bus (USB) features is provided. In one aspect, a refrigerator appliance has a cabinet defining a chamber. At least two shelf mounting tracks are disposed within chamber. A shelf having a USB port is mountable to the shelf tracks. The shelf tracks each include at least two bus bars. One bus bar is charged with a power charge, one is charged with a ground charge, one is charged with a positive data charge, and one is charged with a negative data charge. When the shelf is mounted to the tracks, the bus bars are in electrical communication with the USB port of the shelf such that data transmissions can be routed between the USB port and a controller or some other processing device. In another aspect, a refrigerator appliance includes features for enabling USB data transmissions to a bin mounted in a door thereof

    REFRIGERATOR APPLIANCE AND ICE BIN ASSEMBLY
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200064045A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16108380

    申请日:2018-08-22

    IPC分类号: F25C5/182 F25C5/20

    摘要: A refrigerator appliance and ice bin assembly therefor are provided herein. The ice bin assembly or ice bin may be removably received within the chilled chamber. The ice bin may include a bin body, an ice sweep, and a gear assembly. The bin body may define a storage volume to receive ice therein. The ice sweep may be positioned within the ice bin. The gear assembly may be positioned within the ice bin below the ice sweep in mechanical communication with the ice sweep to motivate rotation of the ice sweep.

    Appliance equipped with a cascading basket system

    公开(公告)号:US10551113B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US16251201

    申请日:2019-01-18

    摘要: An appliance equipped with a cascading basket system is provided. In one example aspect, the cascading basket system includes a first basket connected to a door and movable together forward and backward, a second basket positioned above the first basket, and a third basket positioned above the second basket. The cascading basket system includes features that allow a user to pull out the baskets as a single unit and in a cascading manner by moving the door forward. As one example, the first and second baskets can define pocket recesses configured to receive rollers of the seconds and third baskets respectively to engage the baskets. As another example, the first and second baskets can include protruding ribs that receive bosses of the seconds and third baskets respectively to engage the baskets. In another example, the baskets can include magnets to move the baskets forward together as a single unit.

    Door hinge assembly for an appliance

    公开(公告)号:US10458164B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-29

    申请号:US15706878

    申请日:2017-09-18

    摘要: A hinge assembly for an appliance includes features that allow for a door rotatably hinged to the appliance to be raised or lowered through various phases of the swing arc of the door by utilizing a ramped surface of a bracket of the hinge assembly as the working surface. In one exemplary aspect, a hinge assembly includes a hinge bracket having a pivot pin and a ramped surface. The door hinge assembly also includes a cam assembly coupled with the door and having a cam projection. As the door is swung about its swing arc, the cam projection engages the ramped surface of the hinge bracket. In this way, the door can be raised along the vertical direction as the door is rotated through its swing arc.

    Multi-nozzle misting system for an indoor gardening appliance

    公开(公告)号:US11849681B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-26

    申请号:US17861592

    申请日:2022-07-11

    IPC分类号: A01G29/00 A01G27/00 A01G9/02

    摘要: An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow tower mounted within the grow chamber for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A hydration assembly is positioned within a root chamber and includes a nozzle support frame mounted at a top of the root chamber, the nozzle support frame comprising a plurality of support arms, at least one of the plurality of support arms being off-axis relative to the central axis of the grow tower, an upper nozzle mounted to the nozzle support frame proximate a top of the root chamber, a lower nozzle mounted to the nozzle support frame proximate a bottom of the root chamber, and a water supply for supplying a flow of fluid to at least one of the upper nozzle or the lower nozzle.

    Refrigerator appliance having an ice storage bin

    公开(公告)号:US11629902B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-18

    申请号:US16417709

    申请日:2019-05-21

    IPC分类号: F25C5/20 F25C5/182 F25C5/187

    摘要: A refrigerator appliance, as disclosed herein, may include a cabinet, a door, a dispensing assembly, an ice-making assembly, and an ice storage bin. The door may define a dispenser recess having a transverse opening extending vertically from a top recess end to a bottom recess end and laterally from a first recess side to a second recess side. The dispensing assembly may be positioned within the dispenser recess and define an ice delivery passage. The ice-making assembly may be attached to the cabinet. The ice storage bin may include a bin body defining a storage cavity. The bin body may be selectively mounted to the door within the dispenser recess to receive ice from the dispensing assembly. The bin body may extend vertically from the top recess end to the bottom recess end and laterally from the first recess side to the second recess side.