公开(公告)号：US06546597B2

公开(公告)日：2003-04-15

申请号：US09988081

申请日：2001-11-19

申请人： Samir Atalla ,  Wilfred Wong ,  James Matthew Yates ,  Nedo Banicevic

发明人： Samir Atalla ,  Wilfred Wong ,  James Matthew Yates ,  Nedo Banicevic

IPC分类号： E05B100

CPC分类号： E05B1/0015 ,  F25D23/028 ,  F25D2500/02 ,  Y10S16/19 ,  Y10T16/44 ,  Y10T16/458 ,  Y10T16/462 ,  Y10T16/498 ,  Y10T16/513

摘要： A hollow full grip gas assist appliance handle for use in a household refrigerator has a hollow full grip portion comprising a thermal plastic material that is a 10-40% glass filled homopolymer polypropylene. The distal ends of the hollow grip portion are solid thermoplastic material which encases a metal insert that is adapted to be secured to a side panel of the refrigerator door. The hollow appliance handle provides a solid feel or touch handle along it's full grip portion with solid distal end portions subject to little bending movement due to the metal inserts permitting the door handle to be firmly attached to the side panels of the refrigerator door.

公开(公告)号：US06679006B2

公开(公告)日：2004-01-20

申请号：US10263770

申请日：2002-10-04

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

IPC分类号： E06B300

CPC分类号： F25D23/02 ,  F25D2201/126

摘要： A refrigerator door has reinforcing corner brackets that structurally complete the corners of the door. The corner brackets are located at the door corners adjacent vertical and horizontal side walls of the outer door skin of the door. At least one reinforcing member such as a sheet or rectangular collar, for example, or preferably reinforcing cross brace members are connected to the corner brackets. To achieve this connection and restrict heat transfer through the door and or adjacent the inner liner or in-turned flange of the outer door skin, the corner brackets have connecting tab portions that extend into the cavity of the door away from one of the side walls of the door and spaced from the other side wall of the door. The connecting tab portion is also spaced from the outer skin sheet and the inner door liner. As a result, the reinforcing member or members extend substantially across the width of the door spaced from the outer door skin wall and the inner door liner and are connected to the connecting bracket which is connected in heat transfer relation with side walls, horizontal or vertical, of the door. This reduces heat losses from the refrigerator cabinet conducted through the reinforcing member or members of the door.

摘要翻译： 冰箱门具有加强的角支架，在结构上完成了门的拐角。 角支架位于门角处，与门外门皮肤的垂直和水平侧壁相邻。 至少一个加强构件，例如片状或矩形环，例如或优选地加强横支撑构件连接到角落托架。 为了实现这种连接并且限制通过门的热传递和/或邻近外门皮肤的内衬或转向凸缘，角托具具有连接突片部分，其延伸到远离其中一个侧壁的门的空腔中 并与门的另一侧壁间隔开。 连接片部分也与外表皮片和内门衬垫隔开。 结果，加强构件基本上延伸穿过与外门皮壁和内门衬垫间隔开的门的宽度，并且连接到连接支架，该连接支架与侧壁连接，水平或垂直 ，门。 这减少了通过加强构件或门的构件传导的冰箱的热损失。

公开(公告)号：US06609774B2

公开(公告)日：2003-08-26

申请号：US10352093

申请日：2003-01-28

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

IPC分类号： A47B8800

CPC分类号： F25D25/025 ,  A47B88/944 ,  A47B2210/17 ,  F25D23/02 ,  F25D23/04

摘要： A refrigerator with a pull out drawer has plastic cabinet and drawer liners and a closed reinforcing assembly mounted within the drawer and cabinet for supporting loads carried by the drawer. The assembly has a reinforcing brace secured within the drawer having two spaced apart wing members and a cross member connected to and extending between the wing members adjacent an inside surface of the inner liner. The assembly has a pair of telescopically extendable guide rails each mounted to one of the opposing liner side walls of the cabinet and the through the liner of the drawer to support the drawer for relative movement with the cabinet. The cabinet has a pair of reinforcing bracket members located therein each having a side reinforcing portion extending adjacent a corresponding one of the guide rails and mounted to the liner side wall by fasteners passing through the guide rails and liner side walls. The reinforcing bracket members each having a rear wall portion extending orthogonal from the respective side reinforcing portions adjacent to and in contact with the rear wall of the interior liner secured to each other to form a continuous arm to interconnect and reinforce the side reinforcing portions. The closed reinforcing assembly comprising the reinforcing brackets, the guide rails and the reinforcing brace provide a closed loop rectangular reinforcing structure for loads carried by the guide rails and drawer.

公开(公告)号：US06505442B2

公开(公告)日：2003-01-14

申请号：US09963502

申请日：2001-09-27

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

IPC分类号： E06B300

CPC分类号： F25D23/02 ,  F25D2201/126

摘要： A refrigerator door has reinforcing corner brackets that structurally complete the comers of the door. The corner brackets are located at the door corners adjacent vertical and horizontal side walls of the outer door skin of the door. At least one reinforcing member such as a sheet or rectangular collar, or preferably reinforcing cross brace members are connected to the corner brackets. To achieve this connection and restrict heat transfer through the door and or adjacent the inner liner or in-turned flange of the outer door skin, the corner brackets have connecting tab portions that extend into the cavity of the door away from one of the side walls of the door and spaced from the other side wall of the door. The connecting tab portion is also spaced from the outer skin sheet and the inner door liner. As a result, the reinforcing member or members extend substantially across the width of the door spaced from the outer door skin wall and the inner door liner and are connected to the connecting bracket which is connected in heat transfer relation with side walls, horizontal or vertical, of the door. This reduces heat losses from the refrigerator cabinet conducted through the reinforcing member or members of the door.

摘要翻译： 冰箱门具有加强的角落支架，结构上完成了门的角落。 角支架位于门角处，与门外门皮肤的垂直和水平侧壁相邻。 至少一个加强构件，例如片或矩形环，或者优选地，加强横支撑构件连接到角支架。 为了实现这种连接并且限制通过门的热传递和/或邻近外门皮肤的内衬或转向凸缘，角托具具有连接突片部分，其延伸到远离其中一个侧壁的门的空腔中 并与门的另一侧壁间隔开。 连接片部分也与外表皮片和内门衬垫隔开。 结果，加强构件基本上延伸穿过与外门皮壁和内门衬垫间隔开的门的宽度，并且连接到连接支架，该连接支架与侧壁连接，水平或垂直 ，门。 这减少了通过加强构件或门的构件传导的冰箱的热损失。

公开(公告)号：US06209342B1

公开(公告)日：2001-04-03

申请号：US09396726

申请日：1999-09-15

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Murray Klaas

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Murray Klaas

IPC分类号： F25D1102

CPC分类号： F25D23/006 ,  F25D17/065 ,  F25D17/067 ,  F25D21/08 ,  F25D21/14 ,  F25D23/069 ,  F25D2201/126 ,  F25D2317/0653 ,  F25D2317/067 ,  F25D2400/04

摘要： A refrigerator cabinet has an exterior cabinet shell and a plastic liner insert defining a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment where foamed in place insulation extends between the exterior cabinet shell and the interior liner. The liner has a partition with upper and lower walls extending rearwardly of a front mullion wall and between sidewalls of the liner. The upper sidewall has a cut-out recess adapted to receive an evaporator tray housing that is seated on edges of the upper wall of the partition. The tray supports an evaporator coil, motor, and fan. The tray has a cover that forms, together with the upper wall of the partition, the floor of the freezer compartment. By locating the evaporator tray recessed in the partition, in the partition space between the two compartments can be filled with rigid foam that extends between the upper and lower food compartments and to the exterior shell of the cabinet.

摘要翻译： 冰箱具有一个外壳和一个塑料衬套，限定一个新鲜的食物隔间和一个冷冻室，其中发泡的绝缘体在外壳体和内衬之间延伸。 衬套具有隔壁，上壁和下壁从前竖框壁向后延伸并且在衬垫的侧壁之间延伸。 上侧壁具有适于容纳位于分隔壁的上壁的边缘上的蒸发器托盘壳体的切口凹部。 托盘支撑蒸发器盘管，电机和风扇。 托盘具有与隔板的上壁一起形成冷冻室的地板的盖。 通过将蒸发器托盘定位在凹槽中，两个隔室之间的分隔空间可以填充刚性泡沫，该泡沫在上下食物隔间之间延伸到机壳的外壳。

公开(公告)号：US20090217545A1

公开(公告)日：2009-09-03

申请号：US12314042

申请日：2008-12-03

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Fan Wu

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Fan Wu

IPC分类号： F26B19/00 ,  A47B96/00

CPC分类号： D06F39/005 ,  D06F39/12

摘要： A front control panel assembly is mounted to an upper portion of a laundry appliance cabinet. The control panel has upper and lower spaced apart support brackets, each having a slot having a guiding portion and a trough. A heat shield is mounted to the cabinet and has four spaced apart cantilever posts each having a shaft portion and an end portion received in the support brackets to support the control panel to the cabinet. The lower support brackets secure the corresponding shaft portion via a clasp portion. The secured control panel can move only in opposite first and second radial directions relative the axis of the shaft portion. The guiding portion helps locate the cantilever posts relative the support brackets. A screw passing frontally through the control panel secures it to the heat shield. Cantilever post support bracket cooperation inhibits control panel rotation about the axis of the screw.

摘要翻译： 前控制面板组件安装到洗衣机柜的上部。 控制面板具有上部和下部间隔开的支撑托架，每个支撑托架具有带有引导部分和槽的槽。 隔热罩安装在机柜上，并具有四个间隔开的悬臂柱，每个支柱具有一个轴部分和一个端部，容纳在支撑托架中以将控制面板支撑到机柜。 下支撑支架通过扣环部分固定相应的轴部分。 固定控制面板只能相对于轴部分的轴线在相对的第一和第二径向上移动。 引导部分有助于相对于支撑托架定位悬臂柱。 通过前面通过控制面板的螺钉固定在隔热罩上。 悬臂支撑支架配合禁止控制面板围绕螺丝轴旋转。

公开(公告)号：US6056383A

公开(公告)日：2000-05-02

申请号：US25134

申请日：1998-02-17

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Murray Klaas

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Murray Klaas

IPC分类号： F25D23/08 ,  A47B96/04

CPC分类号： F25D23/082 ,  F25D2323/021 ,  F25D2400/04 ,  Y10S49/01

摘要： A refrigerator cabinet construction is disclosed where a breaker strip interconnects an exterior cabinet shell with an interior liner. The exterior cabinet shell has an open side and a shell edge flange. The interior liner is to fit within the exterior cabinet shell and has a liner flange extending outwardly of said liner. The breaker strip includes an exterior wall with first and second ended flanges. The breaker strip includes a first interior wall and a second interior wall projecting inwardly from said exterior wall to define a first channel. The first interior wall has a first flange co-extending with the first end flange of the exterior wall to define a shell receiving channel, wherein the shell edge flange is inserted into the shell receiving channel. A third interior wall is connected to second exterior wall and coextends with the second end flange of the exterior wall to define a liner receiving channel into which the liner flange extends. The third interior wall is joined through a hinge to a hinged flange adapted to pivot about the hinge and engage the liner flange and the liner during foaming to locate the liner flange in the liner receiving channel against the second end flange of the exterior wall. A magnetic strip is disposed in the first channel. The use of the hinged flange part of the breaker strip provides the advantage of having the breaker strip secure the outer shell relative to the liner while at the same time thermally insulating the outer casing shell from the inner liner.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种冰箱柜结构，其中断路器条将外部柜壳与内衬相互连接。 外壳体外壳具有开口侧和外壳边缘法兰。 内部衬垫适合于外部壳体外壳内，并且具有从所述衬套向外延伸的衬垫凸缘。 断路器带包括具有第一和第二端部凸缘的外壁。 断路器带包括从所述外壁向内突出以限定第一通道的第一内壁和第二内壁。 第一内壁具有与外壁的第一端凸缘共同延伸的第一凸缘，以限定壳体接收通道，其中外壳边缘凸缘插入壳体接收通道。 第三内壁连接到第二外壁并且与外壁的第二端部凸缘共同延伸以限定衬套接收通道，衬套凸缘延伸到该衬套接收通道中。 第三内壁通过铰链连接到适于围绕铰链枢转的铰接凸缘，并且在发泡期间接合衬套凸缘和衬套，以将衬套接收通道中的衬套凸缘定位成抵靠外壁的第二端部凸缘。 磁条设置在第一通道中。 使用断路器条的铰接法兰部分提供了使断路器条相对于衬套固定外壳的优点，同时使外壳壳体与内衬层隔热。

公开(公告)号：US06565170B2

公开(公告)日：2003-05-20

申请号：US09963626

申请日：2001-09-27

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

IPC分类号： A47B8800

CPC分类号： F25D25/025 ,  A47B88/944 ,  A47B2210/17 ,  F25D23/02 ,  F25D23/04

摘要： A refrigerator with a pull out drawer has plastic cabinet and drawer liners and a closed reinforcing assembly mounted within the drawer and cabinet for supporting loads carried by the drawer. The assembly has a reinforcing brace secured within the drawer having two spaced apart wing members and a cross member connected to and extending between the wing members adjacent an inside surface of the inner liner. The assembly has a pair of telescopically extendable guide rails each mounted to one of the opposing liner side walls of the cabinet and the through the liner of the drawer to support the drawer for relative movement with the cabinet. The cabinet has a pair of reinforcing bracket members located therein each having a side reinforcing portion extending adjacent a corresponding one of the guide rails and mounted to the liner side wall by fasteners passing through the guide rails and liner side walls. The reinforcing bracket members each having a rear wall portion extending orthogonal from the respective side reinforcing portions adjacent to and in contact with the rear wall of the interior liner secured to each other to form a continuous arm to interconnect and reinforce the side reinforcing portions. The closed reinforcing assembly comprising the reinforcing brackets, the guide rails and the reinforcing brace provide a closed loop rectangular reinforcing structure for loads carried by the guide rails and drawer.

公开(公告)号：US06428130B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-06

申请号：US09963445

申请日：2001-09-27

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Muc Dang

IPC分类号： A47B9604

CPC分类号： F25D21/04 ,  F25D23/069 ,  F25D23/082 ,  F25D2201/126

摘要： A mullion assembly for a refrigerator cabinet has a pair of adjacent edge wall insulating gasket members extending toward the open side of the cabinet. The edge wall members each have a forward surface extending flush to the open side for supporting a portion of a door sealing gasket and a recessed channel extending rearwardly of the open side. One of the edge wall members has a locating flange member with an edge portion extending toward the other one of the edge wall members. A metallic mullion bar extends between the pair of edge wall members and has a flat wall portion against which seals another portion of the door sealing gasket carrying a magnet. The mullion bar has rearwardly extending flanges extending into and supported by a respective one of the recessed channels of the edge wall members. A block of fiberglass insulation is mounted rearwardly of the metallic mullion bar within the space between the interior cavities. The insulation member is held in engagement by and between the pair of edge wall members by the locating flange member edge portion urging the insulation member against the other edge wall member. This assembly has reduced thermal transfer from outside ambient to the interior cavity of the cabinet through the metallic mullion bar.

摘要翻译： 用于冰箱的竖框组件具有朝向机柜的敞开侧延伸的一对相邻的边缘壁绝缘衬垫构件。 边缘壁构件各自具有与开口侧齐平的前表面，用于支撑门密封垫圈的一部分和从敞开侧向后延伸的凹槽。 一个边缘壁构件具有定位凸缘构件，该凸缘构件的边缘部分朝着另一个边缘壁构件延伸。 金属竖框在所述一对边缘壁构件之间延伸并且具有平坦的壁部分，所述门壁密封衬垫的另一部分通过所述平坦壁部分密封，所述另一部分承载着磁体。 竖框杆具有向后延伸的凸缘，该凸缘延伸到边壁构件的相应的一个凹进通道中并由其支撑。 一块玻璃纤维绝缘体安装在内部空腔之间的空间内的金属竖框之后。 绝缘构件通过定位凸缘构件边缘部分将所述绝缘构件压靠在另一个边缘壁构件上而被保持在一对边缘壁构件之间并在所述一对边缘壁构件之间。 该组件通过金属竖框减小了从外部环境到机柜的内部空腔的热传递。

公开(公告)号：US06192630B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-27

申请号：US09409228

申请日：1999-09-30

申请人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Richard Adamczyk ,  Arnold Estravillo

发明人： Nedo Banicevic ,  Richard Adamczyk ,  Arnold Estravillo

IPC分类号： E06B300

CPC分类号： F25D23/02 ,  E05D5/121 ,  E05D5/14 ,  E05D7/081 ,  E05Y2900/31 ,  F25D23/028 ,  F25D2201/126 ,  F25D2323/024

摘要： A refrigerator door has an outer door panel having an outer skin with rearwardly extending peripheral vertical and horizontal side walls. Four corners are located between adjacent horizontal and vertical side walls. An inner door liner is secured to the outer door panel to define a cavity between the inner liner and the sheet. Cut-out sections are formed in the horizontal side walls adjacent the corners to define exposed edges extending along the vertical side wall, the horizontal side wall and outer skin of the door. A reinforcing corner bracket is positioned within the cavity adjacent each cut-out section assuming normal loading forces associated with the door. Epaulet covers extend over the cut-out sections and the exposed edges. The epaulet covers each have a flange depending therefrom and adapted to overlay an outside surface portion of the outer door skin and the vertical side wall. The epaulet covers have a plurality of ribs extending therefrom adjacent the flange for engaging the inside of the outer door skin and the vertical side wall. The epaulet cover has fasteners comprising an extension and hook shaped end that pass through slotted apertures in the corner bracket permitting the hook shaped surface to engage a rear side of the corner bracket. The slotted apertures are sized larger than the fasteners to permit lateral movement of each epaulet cover relative to its corresponding corner bracket as the epaulet cover is secured over the at least one exposed edge.

摘要翻译： 冰箱门具有外门板，外门板具有向外延伸的周向垂直和水平侧壁的外皮。 四个角位于相邻的水平和垂直侧壁之间。 内门衬套被固定到外门板以在内衬和片之间限定空腔。 切割部分形成在与角部相邻的水平侧壁中，以限定沿着垂直侧壁，水平侧壁和外部皮肤延伸的暴露边缘。 假设与门相关联的正常载荷力，加强角托架位于每个切口部分附近的腔体内。 饰面覆盖层延伸穿过切口部分和暴露的边缘。 肩章盖每个都具有从其延伸的凸缘并且适于覆盖外门皮的外表面部分和垂直侧壁。 肩环盖具有多个肋，其邻近凸缘延伸，用于接合外门皮肤和垂直侧壁的内部。 耳环盖具有包括延伸​​部和钩形端部的紧固件，该端部穿过角部支架中的开槽孔，允许钩形表面接合角部支架的后侧。 所述开槽孔的尺寸大于所述紧固件，以允许每个胎膜盖相对于其相应的角部支架横向移动，因为肩胛骨盖被固定在所述至少一个暴露的边缘上。