General Electric Company

Scott Russell King

Samuel Vincent DuPlessis

Ramesh Janardhanam

Lorina June White

Jerome Johnson Tiemann

James Lee Armstrong

Andrew Philip Shapiro

Martin Mitchell Zentner

Steven James Gray

Amelia Lear Hensley

Daniel Stephen Renz

Anthony A Cooper

Martin Scott Mershon

Samuel V Duplessis

Jason Randall Northcut

Michael Mahaney

Ashok Kumar Sannasi

Martin M Zenter

Steve Paraszczak

Jeffrey Shawn Coulter

Allen Louis Tatum

Steven J Gray

An orifice holder for use with a gas-fueled appliance includes a body, an orifice passage defined in the body, a first tube passage defined in the body, and a second tube passage defined in the body. The orifice passage, the first tube passage, and the second tube passage are in flow communication within the body.

Orifice holder and tube assembly for use with a gas-fueled appliance

An ice maker assembly includes, in an exemplary embodiment, an ice bucket that has a bottom wall, opposing side walls extending from the bottom wall, a front wall, and a back wall. The bottom wall, side walls, front wall, and back wall define an ice collection cavity. The ice bucket also includes a plurality of ribs extending from the bottom wall into the ice collection cavity, and a rotatable auger extending between the front and back walls.

Refrigerator and ice maker apparatus

An apparatus and method for operating an appliance in an energy conservation mode is described. The appliance includes a number of peripheral devices and auxiliary components ancillary to main operation of the appliance, and the method includes reducing power to at least some of the peripheral devices and auxiliary components in an energy conservation mode, thereby reducing energy consumption by the peripheral devices and auxiliary components.

Low energy appliance control apparatus and method

A refrigerator includes a freezer compartment and access door. An icemaker is disposed in the freezer compartment. An upper hopper is disposed inside the freezer door below the icemaker, and includes a rotary auger and first and second ice ports below opposite ends thereof. A receptacle is disposed outside the freezer door below the upper hopper, and a lower hopper is disposed inside the freezer door below the receptacle. A chute joins the second port of the upper hopper to the lower hopper for storing ice cubes therein.

Dual hopper icemaking refrigerator

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Prospect, KY, United States of America

Scott Russell King