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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2020
Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Gregory L. Hutchison, Shelbyville, KY (US);
Craig Iung-Pei Tsai, Louisville, KY (US);
Timothy David Gantt, Goshen, KY (US);
Alan George Constance, Jeffersonville, IN (US);
Jonathan D. Nelson, Louisville, KY (US);
Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A water heater appliance includes a tank extending along a vertical direction between a top end wall and a bottom end wall and a dip tube extending from an inlet end to an outlet end. The inlet end of the dip tube is coupled to a cold water inlet in the top end wall of the tank. The outlet end of the dip tube may be positioned in a bottom corner of the tank and/or positioned at an outer perimeter of the bottom end wall.