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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2008
Steve B. Froelicher, Shepherdsville, KY (US);
Matthew William Davis, Prospect, KY (US);
Jeffrey Lynn Jessie, Taylorsville, KY (US);
Amit Kurhekar, Bangalore, IN;
Joseph Murphy Miller, Louisville, KY (US);
John Joseph Roetker, Louisville, KY (US);
Ronald Scott Tarr, Louisville, KY (US);
Derek Lee Watkins, Elizabethtown, KY (US);
Steve B. Froelicher, Shepherdsville, KY (US);
Matthew William Davis, Prospect, KY (US);
Jeffrey Lynn Jessie, Taylorsville, KY (US);
Amit Kurhekar, Bangalore, IN;
Joseph Murphy Miller, Louisville, KY (US);
John Joseph Roetker, Louisville, KY (US);
Ronald Scott Tarr, Louisville, KY (US);
Derek Lee Watkins, Elizabethtown, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A hinge assembly and a refrigerator using the assembly are disclosed. The assembly rotatably mounts an access door for a compartment of the refrigerator to part of refrigerator that defines the compartment. The hinge assembly has a body coupled to the part and a hinge manifold supported by the body and slidably received in the access door. The manifold has a first supply conduit for supplying a working medium to an icemaker disposed in the access door and a first return conduit for returning the working medium from the icemaker. The hinge assembly can be manufactured as a separate module to be assembled with the refrigerator or retrofit into an existing refrigerator.