General Electric Company

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John Keith Besore

Jeff Donald Drake

Michael F Finch

Natarajan Venkatakrishnan

Eric Kent Watson

Steven Keith Root

Timothy Martin Wetzel

Daniel Vincent Brosnan

Amelia Lear Hensley

Nicholas Okruch, Jr

Darin Franks

Erick Graven

Nagaraju Valluri

Daniel Patrick Ernst

Joshua Flesch

A port assembly for use with a refillable storage container of a cleaning device includes a cap assembly having a sensor aperture and an outlet aperture. The cap assembly is configured to couple to a lip of the storage container. A sensor assembly extends through the sensor aperture and is coupled to the cap assembly, and an outlet assembly extends through the outlet aperture and is coupled to the cap assembly. The outlet assembly is coupled in fluid communication with a cleaning cavity of the cleaning device and the storage container.

Port assembly for use with a cleaning device and method for assembling the same

A dishwasher 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 cost of supplied energy. The controller operates the dishwasher in one of a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode based on the received signal. The controller is configured to change the power consuming functions by adjusting one or more of an operation schedule, an operation delay, an operation adjustment, and a selective deactivation of at least one of the one or more power consuming functions to reduce power consumption of the dishwasher in the energy savings mode.

Energy management of dishwasher appliance

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