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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Andrew Reinhard Krause, La Grange, KY (US);
Natarajan Venkatakrishnan, Louisville, KY (US);
Jonathan Charles Crosby, Louisville, KY (US);
Tyler James Doering, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F17D 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F17D 3/01 (2013.01); Y10T 137/0318 (2015.04); Y10T 137/8158 (2015.04);
Abstract
A refrigerator appliance and a method for monitoring a water filter assembly within the same are provided. The method includes monitoring signal communication between an RFID tag of the water filter assembly and an RFID reader of the refrigerator appliance and terminating a flow of water to the water filter assembly if the signal communication between the RFID tag of the water filter assembly and the RFID reader of the refrigerator appliance is lost or disrupted.