Whirlpool Corporation

Whirpool Corporation

Paul E Beshears, Jr

Elliott V Stowe

Sathish Andrea Sundaram

Scott D Slabbekoorn

Ameresh Babu Viswanathan

Antony Mark Rappette

Barry E Tuller

David H Chen

Mark W Baldwin

Kristopher Lee Delgado

Mark S Feddema

Kaustav Ghosh

Chad T Vanderroest

Todd Michael Jozwiak

Eric A Gallagher

James W Klein

Deborah L Gregory

Timothy D Lee

Jason A Sibley

Jacob R Karhoff

Eric M Beidler

Rodney Michael Welch

Tremitchell L Wright

Mark M Senninger

Christopher Carl Wilcox

Aaron P Bennett

Richard Lawrence Kretz

John Joseph Burns

Brent A DeWeerd

Michael F Gregory

Brent Allen Deweerd

Kathryn Armstrong

Prithi Rao

A dish rack for use in a dishwasher is provided. The dishwasher includes a tub defining a washing chamber for cleaning kitchenware and the like. The dish rack includes a wall bounding a space. A dispenser unit is mounted to the dish rack and is configured to hold an additive. A hydraulic circuit is disposed within the walls of the dish rack and is placed in fluid communication with the dispenser. Fluid pressure from the hydraulic circuit is operable to eject the additive from the dispenser unit into the washing chamber.

Dish rack with dispenser unit

A dishwasher has a treating chamber for receiving dishes for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation and a dispensing system for storing and dispensing treating chemistry to the treating chamber during the cycle of operation. The dishwasher can be provided with a lifetime supply of a treating chemistry for the dispensing system.

Dishwasher

A dishwasher for treating dishes according to an automatic cycle of operation having a tub that at least partially defines a treating chamber, a slidable dish holder, an electricity-consuming component having a rechargeable battery, and a battery charging system to recharge the rechargeable battery of the electricity-consuming component when the dish holder is in the treating position.

Dishwasher with rechargeable components

A dishwasher having a tub defining a treating chamber, a dish rack, and a spray assembly associated with the dish rack. The spray assembly may include at least one sprayer positioned to spray treating liquid onto dishes received by the rack. The sprayer has two openings and may be movable between a first position and a second position.

Dishwasher rack spray assembly

A dispensing assembly including at least one treating chemistry container configured to store a treating chemistry and selectively fluidly coupled to the treating chamber, a sensor configured to detect a characteristic of the dispensing assembly and output a first signal based thereon, an illumination detector outputting a second signal indicative of ambient illumination and an indicator outputting a human-detectable signal.

Non-integrated bulk dispenser and method of operating a dishwasher having same

A dishwasher having a tub having an open face and at least partially defining a treating chamber for holding dishes during an automatic cycle of operation, a door moveably mounted between an opened position, wherein a user the treating chamber is accessible, and a closed position, wherein the door closes the open face of the tub and dispensing assembly configured to activate an indicator to emit a human-detectable signal in response to a first signal indicating a predetermined amount of treating chemistry and a second signal indicating a predetermined amount of illumination.

Dishwasher and dispensing assembly

A removable non-integrated treating chemistry dispensing cartridge assembly may emit a signal in response to a predetermined amount of treating chemistry being detected and in response to a predetermined amount of illumination being detected.

A dishwasher having a tub defining a treating chamber, a dish rack, and a spray assembly associated with the dish rack. The spray assembly may include at least one sprayer positioned to spray treating liquid onto dishes received by the rack. The sprayer has two openings and may be movable between a first position where the treating liquid flows through the first liquid opening into the treating chamber and does not flow through the second liquid opening and a second position where the treating liquid flows through the second liquid opening into the treating chamber. The sprayer may be rotatable between positions and may emit spray in both positions.

A method of dispensing detergent in a dishwasher having a wash tub that includes a fluid reservoir to hold a treating chemistry, a lid operatively mounted to the fluid reservoir, and is configured to move between an open position and a closed position, and a hydraulic actuator is fluidly coupled to a fluid source and configured to initiate movement of the lid between its closed and open positions in response to fluid pressure applied to the actuator by the fluid source.

Dishwasher detergent dispensing method

A dishwasher has a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving dishes for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation. At least one wall of the tub has spaced outer and inner panels and a conduit framework extending between the outer and inner panels to define a plurality of conduits. The conduits can convey liquid, air, and/or electrical wiring.

Dishwasher having a conduit framework

A method of operating a dishwasher by controlling the use of hot liquids to dissolve fatty soils.

Method to remove fatty soils in a dishwasher

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Stevensville, MI, United States of America

Paul E Beshears, Jr