General Electric Company

Debra Miozza

Martin Mitchell Zentner

Sanjay Manohar Anikhindi

Anand Ganesh Joshi

Venkata Ramakrishna Ramayanam

Venkataramana Rachakonda

John Kenneth Hooker

Warren F Bessler

Martin Christopher Severance

Omar Haidar

Brian Matthew Aiken

Arun Madhav Talegaonkar

Patrick David Galbreath

Scott Wayne Lange

John P Ouseph

Steve Root

Asma Hamid Iqbal

Michelle Dahl

Ravi Kumar Yellajosula

A method for operating a refrigerator including a fresh food compartment and a door includes providing a fresh food evaporator to produce cool airflow for the fresh food compartment, providing a chiller compartment within the fresh food compartment, providing a duct member in flow communication with the fresh food evaporator and the chiller compartment, and channeling cool airflow to the chiller compartment via the duct member.

Methods and apparatus for operating a refrigerator

A refrigerator including a refrigerator compartment, a refrigerator door coupled to the refrigerator compartment, the refrigerator door has an inner surface. The refrigerator further includes a bin for storing items therein mounted to the inner surface of the refrigerator door and at least one thermoelectric module operationally coupled to the bin, such that the bin is temperature controlled independent of the refrigerator compartment.

Methods and apparatus for controlling refrigerators

A mullion assembly for a refrigerator quick chill pan is provided. The mullion assembly includes a base comprising a top surface and a bottom surface, a first light element coupled to said base for producing light above said top surface, and a second light element coupled to said base for producing light below said bottom surface.

Mullion assembly for refrigerator quick chill and thaw pan

A temperature controlled apparatus comprises a reversible solid state device having a first section and a second section; portions of the first and the second sections are disposed in intimate contact. The first section is disposed adjacent to a portion of an external wall surface of a compartment and the second section is disposed adjacent to a portion of an internal wall surface of the compartment. A compartment fan is disposed within the compartment. The reversible solid state device and the compartment fan are coupled to a controller. The controller is configured to modify a compartment air temperature inside the compartment by controlling the reversible solid state device and the compartment fan to flow a compartment air across the second section. The controller is configured to control the reversible solid state device and the compartment fan in at least one temperature operational mode.

Temperature controlled compartment apparatus and method of controlling temperature

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