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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2008
Derek Lee Watkins, Elizabethtown, KY (US);
James Armstrong, Louisville, KY (US);
Philip Ames Barber, Louisville, KY (US);
Jay Andrew Broniak, Louisville, KY (US);
Steve B. Froelicher, Shepherdsville, KY (US);
Kevin Scott Laundroche, Anchorage, KY (US);
Michael Paul Mcgonagle, Louisville, KY (US);
Derek Lee Watkins, Elizabethtown, KY (US);
James Armstrong, Louisville, KY (US);
Philip Ames Barber, Louisville, KY (US);
Jay Andrew Broniak, Louisville, KY (US);
Steve B. Froelicher, Shepherdsville, KY (US);
Kevin Scott Laundroche, Anchorage, KY (US);
Michael Paul McGonagle, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An appliance is disclosed. The appliance includes a main body defining a cavity and an air channel which is in flow communication with an outside of the appliance; an access door supported by the main body for selectively closing the cavity, the access door having an airway in flow communication with the outside of the appliance and the air channel; a fan disposed in the air channel; and an Human Machine Interface disposed on or in the access door. When activated, the fan causes ambient air from the outside of the appliance to pass through the airway before entering the air channel so that the access door is cooled off by the ambient air.