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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2021
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Edward Haney, Baroda, MI (US);
Ryan Ebstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A drive assembly for a blender appliance includes an output drive shaft and an inner one-way bearing member received in an interior cavity of the output drive shaft. An outer bearing member is oppositely configured relative to the inner one-way bearing member and includes a receiving bore. The receiving well of the output drive shaft is received in the receiving bore of the outer one-way bearing member. An input drive shaft includes a first end received in a receiving bore of the inner one-way bearing member. A planetary gear system includes a sun gear that is operably coupled to the input drive shaft and gearingly engaged with a ring gear through a plurality of planet gears. A carrier member is operably coupled to the plurality of planet gears and includes a receiving bore in which the outer one-way bearing member is received for rotation therewith.