Whirlpool Corporation

Daniel Henry Quinlan

Jessica R McConnell

Michael S Seeley

Kelly E Roche

Julia B Burke

Mansour Ourasanah

Todd Joseph Tunzi

Michael A Kahwaji

James S Owen

Charles L Jones

Allen D Wong

Jonathan M Dalton

Dana Reinisch

Aaron Hayes

Ildefonso Resuello

Timothy Edward McKeown

Jason W Tippetts

Richard L Hammond

Mallory A Fuller

Raffaele Mazzei

Yifan Wang

Tania L Aldous

Christopher L Carpenter

Steve S Lee

Kenneth Todd Shelley

Jose R Aranda

Sandra C Steward

John W McConnell

Jim J Pastryk

Eric Andrew Hill

Ryan Michael Post

Jason Ammerman

Ananth Uggirala

Kevin James Gilboe

James F Dasher

Mark H Nelson

Rahul Wadke

Rafael Massei

Scott E Roales

Joshua J Jun

Jose Angel Avalos

Sang W Lee

Joseph Gresham, Iv

Evan W Kessick

Refrigerator shelf

Refrigerator

A refrigerator includes a refrigerated compartment, at least one door that selectively seals the refrigerated compartment and a cold plate shelf assembly mounted in the refrigerated compartment. The shelf assembly includes a front trim, a rear trim and a first plate directly coupled to the front trim and the rear trim. A second plate extends from the front trim to the rear trim, the second plate being positioned so that a food item supported on the shelf assembly contacts the second plate. The second plate is made from a material having a higher thermal conductivity than glass. In one arrangement, the refrigerator further includes an air duct having an air vent. Air exiting the air duct through the air vent either impinges on and travels across the second plate or enters an interior of the shelf assembly.

Cold plate shelf assembly for a refrigerator

A dispensing mechanism for an appliance includes an operable paddle having a lower portion and an upper portion pivotally attached to a dispenser wall between outward and inward positions. An actuator has a switch positioned proximate a pivot defined by a first end of an actuator lever. A second end of the actuator lever is positioned proximate the lower portion of the operable paddle, wherein operation of the operable paddle to the inward position engages the lower portion of the operable paddle with the bottom portion of the actuator lever and operates the actuator lever from an idle state to a use state. Movement of the bottom portion of the actuator lever operates the switch from a deactivated state to an activated state, wherein the activated state of the switch activates the at least one of the ice dispenser and the water dispenser.

Low force actuation dispenser paddle for a dispenser assembly of an appliance

Door bin

A door-in-door refrigerator includes a door having an inner door and an outer door. When the inner and outer doors are in open positions, food items stored in a main refrigerated compartment are accessible. When the inner and outer doors are in closed positions, the door seals the refrigerated compartment, and food items stored in the main refrigerated compartment are not accessible. When the inner door is in a closed position and the outer door is in an open position, food items stored in a storage structure coupled to the door are accessible. A latch includes a trigger that moves in a direction substantially parallel to a handle. Movement of the trigger shifts the latch between a latched position, in which pulling on the handle causes the inner and outer doors to open, and an unlatched position, in which pulling on the handle causes the outer door to open while the inner door remains closed.

Refrigerator door-in-door latch

Appliance interior with color

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Stevensville, MI, United States of America

Daniel Henry Quinlan