General Electric Company

Daniel Stephen Frazer

Mark Allen Johnson

Michael F Finch

Jerrod Aaron Kappler

Steven Keith Root

Stephen Edward Hettinger

David Joseph Najewicz

Chad Michael Helms

Howard James Oagley

Peter Hans Bensel

Manikandan Balasubramaniam

An induction cooktop appliance includes a housing having an air intake opening and an air exhaust opening, the air intake opening and the air exhaust opening defining an air cooling circulation path, an induction cooktop disposed on top of the housing, electronics for the induction cooktop disposed within the housing, and a vent tube having a first end and a second end, the vent tube being disposed in the cooling air circulation path and configured to segregate air entering the air intake opening from air exiting the air exhaust opening.

Induction cooktop cooling kit

An appliance for washing objects that employs a spray device for delivering a washing fluid, e.g., water, to a wash tub in the appliance. The spray device is configured to reduce consumption of the washing fluid such as during a rinse portion of a washing cycle. In one example, the spray device comprises a plurality of apertures that are arranged in one or more arrays. The apertures are configured to disperse the washing fluid as a plurality of spray streams that form a pair of wetted areas on either side the wash tub. The wetted areas provide wetting of the objects along the sides and extending from a front portion to a back portion of the wash tub.

Device and method for rinsing objects in an appliance

A clothes washer is provided comprising one or more power consuming functions and a controller in signal communication with an associated utility. The controller can receive and process a signal from the associated utility indicative of current state of an associated utility. The controller operates the clothes washer in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode in response to the received signal. The controller is configured to change the power consuming functions by changing the duty cycling profile of the heater and/or mechanical action of the basket in the energy savings mode.

Clothes washer demand response by duty cycling the heater and/or the mechanical action

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Daniel Stephen Frazer