Whirlpool Corporation

Whirpool Corporation

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Whirlpool S.a.

Nihat O Cur

Steven John Kuehl

Guolian Wu

Douglas David Leclear

James William Kendall

Jim J Pastryk

Jeffery J Anselmino

Andrew Michael Tenbarge

David B Kirby

James C L Guarino

Ronald L Voglewede

Axel Julio Ramm

Paul B Allard

Marcus Roland Fischer

Andrew David Litch

Marcos Heinzle

Tushar Kulkarni

Verne H Myers

Gregory Gene Hortin

Anderson Bortoletto

Mark M Senninger

Richard W Kruck

Frank Weston Maglinger

Luiz Antonio D Lopes

John W Euler

John Joseph Vonderhaar

Timothy A Kee

Jurgen Pannock

Alberto Regio Gomes

Michael A Kahwaji

Richard A Sunshine

Karen J Querfurth

John J Vonderhaar

Ginger Elayne Patera

Tiemen T Van Dillen

Anthony H Hardaway

Douglas D LeClear

Timothy T Murphy

Lorenzo Bianchi

Diego Barone

Jatin C Khanpara

Claiton E Amaral

Joel Adam Luckman

Bruce C Beihoff

Michele Wilcox

Lukasz D Skalski

Tao Xie

Kirk Dunsbergen

John Richard Wisnoski

Carolina Biotti

John A Nelson

Phalguni S Roy

Alexandre C Azevedo

Luca Gamberoni

Jeffrey J Anselmino

John L Wuepper

Terry L McGath

Luciana Wasnievski Da Silva

Leandro Berno Lidio

Gustavo Lazzaris De Bona

Kenneth P Chen

John L Deaner

Allen C Schmaltz

Kevin Michael Chase

Tony Lee Koenigsknecht

Andrea Olivani

Matthew Edward Young

David P Cooper

Michael Edward Stagg

Scott Hugh Bradford

Beth M Jackson

Jon D Tromblee

Joseph R Peters

Robert J Rolek

Marcio Roberto Thiessen

Enrica Monticelli

Marco Casucci

James R Peterson

Heng Tong Pit

Luiz Afrânio Alves Ferreira

Joel Graham Vanfaasen

Kirk W Goodwin

Michael L Huie

Italo Renzo Menegon

Sara Manfredini-Taube

Douglas David LeClear

Torsten Rickard Mathias-Tingstrom

Alisson Costa DaSilva

Gustvo Lazzaris De Bona

J Pastryk Jim

Luiz A Lopez

Anthony H Haraway

T V Kulkarni

Jeffrey A Miller

William S White

Scott A Thiele

Martin P Immoos

Mohamed E Higazy

Gordon Jay Stannis

Alisson Costa Dasilva

A vacuum insulated cabinet structure includes panels having sheet metal outer side walls and polymer inner side walls. The polymer inner side walls are heat-sealed to a layer of polymer material laminated to a flat sheet metal blank to form vacuum cavities. The blank is then bent along fold lines to form a cabinet structure.

Method of making a folded insulated structure

Method of making a folded vacuum insulated structure

A vacuum insulated door structure includes a first wall having a first edge and a barrier layer, a second wall having a second barrier layer and a second edge coupled to the first wall member proximate the first perimetrical edge. The second wall includes at least four inner side walls and a back wall that defines a second wall offset. At least one tubular member extends between the first wall member and the second wall offset, wherein an inner conduit surface of the tubular member provides fluid communication between the first wall outer facing surface and the second wall outer facing surface. A cavity insulation material is disposed within a cavity volume defined between the first and second walls, wherein the cavity volume is hermetically sealed, and wherein the cavity volume includes an at least partial vacuum.

Vacuum insulated door structure and method for the creation thereof

A refrigerator includes a vacuum insulated cabinet structure having side walls that are formed from a tube that has been folded/deformed into a structure having an 'O' shape with vertically enlarged front and rear openings. The interior of the tube may be filled with silica powder or other filler, and a vacuum is formed within the tube. An insulated rear panel may be utilized to close off the rear opening of the vacuum insulated cabinet structure.

Vacuum insulated structure tubular cabinet construction

A split air conditioner has a cabinet with a fan and evaporator for mounting within a structure. The cabinet includes one or more movable dampers or movable filters positioned in the flow path between the air inlet and the outlet for selectively filtering contaminants from the air to provide a greater or lesser degree of filtration of the air. The movable filters include sliding and/or pivot mounting structure which may accommodate stacking multiple filters with different filtering characteristics. The system may operate in a filtering only mode with no cooling, a cooling only mode with no filtering, or a combination of cooling and selective filtering.

Air conditioner with selective filtering for air purification

A method of forming a vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet, the method comprising providing first and second sheets of material. The first sheet of material is thermoformed over a first forming tool forming a first intermediate structure. The first intermediate structure is then thermoformed over a second forming mold to create a second intermediate structure. The second sheet of material is then sealing connected with the second intermediate structure forming an annular space. A vacuum is created in the annular space creating a vacuum insulated cabinet.

Method to create vacuum insulated cabinets for refrigerators

A high-efficiency air conditioning system for conditioning a plurality of rooms within an interior of a building, the air conditioning system including: two separate rooms within a building, a single outdoor unit a refrigerant flow pathway that includes a plurality of refrigerant conduits having a common refrigerant flow path portion and at least two divergent flow path portions, a first divergent flow path where the first evaporator and second evaporator are in parallel with one another; at least one throttling device and at least a first indoor air handling unit positioned within and providing cooling to the first room and a second indoor air handling unit positioned within and providing cooling to a second room. The compressor is incapable of simultaneously supplying both the first evaporator and the second evaporator at their full cooling capacity.

Air conditioning systems for at least two rooms using a single outdoor unit

A refrigerator includes a secondary cooling path for circulating liquid coolant through the refrigerator wherein the liquid coolant is cooled by the freezer compartment and wherein the liquid coolant cools the ice maker and the ice bin as the liquid coolant circulates through the secondary cooling path. A pump is positioned along the secondary cooling path for pumping the liquid coolant through the secondary cooling path. A tube having a first end proximate the pump and an opposite end exposed to atmosphere may control suction pressure associated with the pump. The refrigerator reduces frost build up through configuration of the secondary cooling path or performing ice harvesting operations which melt frost. The secondary cooling path may be used to provide for circulating hot liquid. The secondary cooling path may be used to provide for circulating liquid coolant during a power outage.

Secondary cooling path in refrigerator

A refrigerator is provided that includes at least one freezer compartment and at least one refrigerator compartment, wherein the freezer compartment and the refrigerator compartment are defined by a plurality of interior surfaces. The refrigerator further includes a cooling module set (CMS) removably attached to at least one of the plurality of interior surfaces, wherein the CMS is configured to operate in any orientation of a plurality of orientations, and the CMS is further configured to be repositionable with respect to the plurality of interior surfaces to alter a shape of at least one of the refrigerator compartment and the freezer compartment.

Universal and flexible cooling module set (CMS) configuration and architecture

A beverage dispensing apparatus which includes a tank, a liquid inlet and a fluid dispensing system which includes a dispensing fluid conduit having a helical portion at least substantially vertically oriented within the interior volume of the tank. The beverage dispensing apparatus also includes a fluid circulating system that includes at least one fluid circulation conduit having an inlet portion positioned proximate the bottom portion of the tank and at least one outlet. A fluid cycling device is also included in the beverage dispensing apparatus and is configured to move fluid from the bottom portion of the tank to the fluid circulation conduit. The at least one outlet is configured to produce a fluid flow tangential to the orientation of the dispensing fluid conduit configuration. Evaporator coils extend around a perimeter of the tank's exterior sidewall surface and are configured to chill the fluid within the tank.

Enhanced heat transfer to water

Apparatuses and methods for conditioning a liquid stream with a liquid dispensing system associated with a refrigerator, preparing an enhanced beverage using one or more of the individually conditioned liquid streams and a liquid enhancement device and minimizing the potential for back contamination of the liquid dispensing system are provided.

Apparatuses and methods for a refrigerator having liquid conditioning and enhancement components for enhanced beverage dispensing

A high-efficiency air conditioning system for conditioning a plurality of zones within an interior of a building that includes: at least two independent ductwork systems within a building wherein each independent ductwork system directs heating and cooling to one zone within the building; a single outdoor unit a refrigerant flow pathway having a common refrigerant flow path portion, a first divergent flow path, and a second divergent flow path; at least one throttling device and at least a first indoor air handling unit providing cooling to a first independent ductwork system and a second indoor air handling unit providing cooling to a second indoor ductwork system. The compressor is incapable of simultaneously supplying both the first evaporator and the second evaporator at their full cooling capacity.

Air conditioning systems with multiple temperature zones from independent ducting systems and a single outdoor unit

A split air conditioner has a cabinet with a fan and evaporator for mounting within a structure. The cabinet includes a filter or a stacked filter system positioned in the flow path between an air inlet and an air outlet for filtering contaminants from the air. Movable dampers are provided for selectively changing the airflow path to selectively bypass the filter to provide a greater or lesser degree of filtration of the air. Preferably, the filter is a high performance HEPA-like filter having substantially less pressure drop.

Air Conditioner with selective filtering for air purification

A beverage dispensing apparatus including a storage tank. At least one ice body is formed proximate the top portion of the storage tank. The ice body is formed in an icemaker configured to produce an ice body through direct contact with an evaporator coil and does not use cold air, or formed directly on a portion of the top portion of the storage tank using evaporator coils extending around a perimeter of the storage tank. The water is then configured to be carbonated and then dispensed to a user upon a user command.

Beverage system ice maker and ice and water reservoir

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Royalton Township, Berrien County, MI, United States of America

Nihat O Cur