Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

William Jeremy Leachman

Louis Anthony Wantland

Bagawathkumar Chellappan

Jonathan Charles Crosby

Todd D Cook

Steven David Paul

Pat Napier

A door assembly for an appliance includes a door defining an outer door panel, a mounting stud extending from the outer door panel, and a handle assembly. The handle assembly includes a handle tube, a bushing seated against the handle tube and defining a through hole, a bushing fastener passing through the through hole of the bushing and engaging the handle tube, wherein the bushing fastener is undersized relative to the through hole to provide mechanical play between the bushing and the handle tube, an end cap positioned between an outer door panel and the handle tube, and a set screw passing through a set screw aperture defined in the bushing to engage the mounting stud and secure the bushing to the outer door panel.

Handle assembly for an appliance door

A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet that defines a chilled chamber. The cabinet has an outer casing with a first front flange and a second front flange. The first and second front flanges are connected at a mitered joint. Each of the first and second front flanges has a tab extending into the outer casing. The tabs of the first and second front flanges are plastically deformed together at the mitered joint.

Refrigerator casing with a mitered front corner joint

A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet and a powered track disposed within the cabinet for receiving adjustable shelves at various shelf mounting positions. The powered track can include a first and a second power bus in electrical communication with a power source. The adjustable shelf can include a first electrical connector and a second electrical connector that are biased in electrical communication with the first and second power bus, respectively, when the adjustable shelf is mounted to the powered track.

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Pewee Valley, KY, United States of America

William Jeremy Leachman