Midea Group Co., Ltd.

General Electric Company

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Midea America Corp.

Midea American Corporation

Christopher G Hoppe

Phillip C Hombroek

Bryan T Snook

Su Qin

Zhe Zhang

Jing Pan

Donghwan Yang

Mark Weaver

Derek Lee Watkins

Craig Robert Vitan

Steven Michael Recio

Carl W Risen

Mark Wayne Wilson

Stephen Bernard Froelicher

Daniel J Trice

Michael F Finch

Timothy Martin Wetzel

Ziqiang Hu

William Henry Lueckenbach

Ashley Wayne Burt

Steven David Paul

Larry Lee Hawkins

Benton Bartley Oukrop

John Michael Todd

Abubakar Abukar

Keerthi Vasan

Jon Arthur Roepke

Joshua Paul Kopecky

John Schuckmann

Bertram Joseph Stocker, Jr

Brian Johanski

Wm Wallace White

Russell Katona

A wash drum apparatus and method of adjusting the wash capacity for a laundry washing machine. The wash drum may include one or more rear cover inserts that may adjust the wash capacity of the wash drum. The rear cover insert may include one or more impellers. The wash drum may include a rear cover.

Laundry washing machine with adjustable wash capacity

An impeller for a laundry washing machine having one or more scooping members. The one or more scooping member may include a variety of positions relative to the impeller. The one or more scooping members may pivot to one or more positions to direct or lift fluid. The one or more scooping members may define one or more fluid pathways.

Impeller for laundry washing machine

A laundry washing machine and method detect the presence of outlier articles in a load of articles added to a wash tub based in part on color composition data collected from the load of articles using a color detection sensor. In some instances, color composition data may be used to generate an alert to a user to notify the user that an outlier article is potentially present in the load, and in some instances, color compensation data may be used to modify a load type selection to account for the presence of an outlier article in the load.

Laundry washing machine color composition analysis with article alerts

A major appliance such as a laundry washing machine, a dryer, a cooking appliance or a dishwasher includes an internal steam generator fluidly coupled to a hand held steam accessory that is configured to be manually operated to perform a steaming operation external to the cabinet.

Appliance with hand held steam accessory

A laundry washing machine and method automate the selection of a load type for a laundry washing machine during an initial fill phase of a wash cycle and based in part on weight and fluid level sensed by weight and fluid level sensors operatively coupled to a wash tub and after a selected amount of water has been dispensed into the wash tub.

Laundry washing machine with automatic selection of load type

A laundry washing machine and method may use a distance sensor to determine dry and wet distance values associated with a load disposed in a wash tub, and dynamically configure a wash cycle based upon the determined values. In some instances, the distance sensor may also be used to detect an excessive fluid level, excessive foaming, or a floating item in the wash tub.

Laundry washing machine incorporating distance sensor

A laundry washing machine and method utilize a fluid property sensor to dynamically select between different types of rinse operations, e.g., fill rinse operations or spin rinse operations, performed during a wash cycle.

Laundry washing machine with automatic rinse operation type selection

A laundry treatment appliance, program product and method utilize a slider-based user interface to facilitate user selection of settings for a laundry treatment cycle. A slider-based user interface, for example, may include a fabric slider control that receives user input that selects from among a plurality of fabric selections and a cycle modifier slider control that receives user input that selects from among a plurality of cycle modifier selections capable of increasing and/or decreasing various default settings associated with various fabric selections.

Laundry treatment appliance slider-based user interface

A wash tub apparatus and method of manufacturing the wash tub for a laundry washing machine. The wash tub may include a bearing housing shell and a bearing housing insert. The bearing housing insert may include at least one bearing. The bearing housing shell may be overmolded with a plastic portion of the cylindrical tub.

Tub with bearing housing insert for a laundry washing machine

A laundry washing machine and method utilize weight, fluid level and fluid property sensors to dynamically select a load type, control a wash cycle and control an amount of detergent dispensed during a wash cycle.

Laundry washing machine with automatic detergent dispensing and/or rinse operation type selection

An appliance and method utilize a context-sensitive fixed-position user interface including cycle type controls used to select a cycle type and cycle configuration controls used to configure settings associated with particular cycle types. Indicators of the cycle type and cycle configuration controls are selectively set to active or inactive states during cycle type selection and cycle configuration phases to facilitate user configuration of settings for the appliance prior to performing an appliance cycle.

Appliance with context-sensitive fixed-position user interface

A stain removal tool for a laundry washing machine. The stain removal tool may be deployed from a stowed position and may be adapted to receive at least a portion of an article to substantially remove or treat a stain with water. The stain removal tool may have one or more nozzles upstream of the article.

Stain removal tool for a laundry washing machine

A laundry washing machine and method implement dynamic damping force optimization during a wash cycle to optimize a force-generating operation such as a spin operation performed during the wash cycle. The dynamic damping force optimization may utilize inputs from a suspension force sensor in combination with an accelerometer to dynamically determine a damping capability for a suspension of a laundry washing machine such that damping in the suspension system may be maintained within the damping capability of the suspension system to balance operation performance against the generation of undesirable forces and vibrations.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Christopher G Hoppe