General Electric Company

Jeffrey Martin Wood

Brent Alden Junge

Jason Andrew May

Alan Joseph Mitchell

Andrew Reinhard Krause

Kevin Farrelly Nolan

Richard DeVos

Joseph Thomas Waugh

Michael Thomas Chezem

Martin Christopher Severance

Joel Erik Hitzelberger

Jeffrey Michael Colyer

Lorina June White

Russell James Fallon

Arun Madhav Talegaonkar

Kenneth Joseph Hanley

Robert Lee Lewis, Jr

Joseph Anthony Tobbe

Martin Nicholas Austin

Juan David Payares

Andrew Jason Veenstra

A refrigerator appliance is provided with a dispenser for directing a flow of ice and/or water to a dispenser recess of the dispenser. A camera is directed towards the dispenser recess, and a display is also provided for displaying an image from the camera. The image can assist a user in positioning a container within the dispenser recess.

Refrigerator appliance with features for assisted dispensing

A refrigeration appliance with a hot water dispenser includes a refrigerated cabinet having a dispenser area, a cabinet water inlet in the refrigerated cabinet connectable to a premises water line, and a hot water storage tank. The tank has a tank body, a heater in the tank body, an inlet for admitting water into the tank body supplied via the cabinet water inlet, and an outlet for providing water via a dispensing conduit to a dispenser in the dispenser area. The inlet includes a venturi portion for creating a reduced pressure within the hot water storage tank via flow of water into the hot water storage tank. The reduced pressure communicates with the dispensing conduit via the outlet so that, after dispensing water remaining in the dispensing conduit is drawn toward the tank body. Refrigeration devices with premises line pressure water distribution systems are also disclosed.

Refrigeration appliance with hot water dispenser

An evaporative cooling condenser for a household appliance cooling system includes a water source, a heat exchanger configured to contain a refrigerant, and a fluid heat transfer device, the fluid heat transfer device configured to receive water from the water source and apply the water to the heat exchanger for rejecting heat from the heat exchanger.

Evaporative cooling condenser for household appliance

A refrigerator and a method of operating a refrigerator to determine the time at which to initiate a defrost cycle is provided. Changes in the voltage provided to an evaporator fan are used to determine and/or predict when to initiate a defrost cycle. Adjustments to the timing of the defrost cycle can be made based on known periods of peak energy demand and/or the increased costs associated with operating the defrost cycle during such peak energy demand periods.

Method and apparatus using evaporator fan power requirements to determine defrost cycle for a refrigerator appliance

A method includes providing a standard supply of electrical power to a defrost heater during a standard defrost cycle for a refrigeration system of an appliance, detecting a high energy demand period during the standard defrost cycle, and enabling a reduced consumption of electrical power by the defrost heater in a low power defrost cycle.

DSM defrost during high demand

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