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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2010
Bruce C. Beihoff, Stevensville, MI (US);
Nihat O. Cur, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Kirk M. Dunsbergen, Stevensville, MI (US);
Joel A. Luckman, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Richard A. Sunshine, Granger, IN (US);
Tao Xie, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Bruce C. Beihoff, Stevensville, MI (US);
Nihat O. Cur, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Kirk M. Dunsbergen, Stevensville, MI (US);
Joel A. Luckman, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Richard A. Sunshine, Granger, IN (US);
Tao Xie, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
An appliance system that includes an appliance group containing at least two appliances, a first appliance designed to perform a first consumer function related to the first appliance and a second appliance that is separate from the first appliance and designed to perform a second consumer function related to the second appliance. The appliance system also includes a thermal energy generator, typically a heat pump, where the thermal energy heats at least one thermal energy bearing fluid and is operably connected to the first and second appliances to deliver thermal energy to the first and second appliances simultaneously or at different times via one or more of the thermal energy bearing fluids.