Whirlpool Corporation

Tarun Sai Yadav Godha

Christoph J Miller

James B Hull

Steven Fricke

Eric J Walsh

Peter Wagoner

Sayer J Murphy

Stephen D Ostdiek

Michael A Ledford

Jun Young Park

Ryan James Van Zoest

Heather A Hellmuth

Meagan K Vandervelde

Skylar Rhae Kleindienst

Michelle Flachs Croce

Karthick Kumar Dhanapal

Evan Kristopher Bauer

B Shiva

Bharadwaj J

Sachin Nilawar

A laundry appliance includes a cabinet. A door is operably coupled to the cabinet. A drum is disposed within the cabinet proximate to the door. A lifter is disposed within and operably coupled to the drum. A foreign substrate collector is disposed within the lifter.

Foreign substrate collector for a laundry appliance

A laundry appliance includes a tub having a rear wall that includes a plurality of structural ribs. A drive hub has a bearing housing insert injection molded into the rear wall. A stator is attached to the drive hub at stator fastening portions exposed through the rear wall of the tub. A reinforcing cap is fixed to the structural ribs of the rear wall of the tub. The bearing housing of the drive hub extends rearwards through a portion of the reinforcing cap. The stator fastening portions are exposed through the reinforcing cap.

Reinforcing cap for a tub rear wall of an appliance

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St. Joseph, MI, United States of America

Tarun Sai Yadav Godha