Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Refrigerator having a camera selectively enclosed by a rotating mullion assembly
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Application No.: US15966801Application Date: 2018-04-30
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Publication No.: US10281202B1Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Matthew Ebrom , Neomar Giacomini , Donald Gilmore
- Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Agency: Price Heneveld LLP
- Main IPC: G03B17/00
- IPC: G03B17/00 ; F25D29/00 ; F25D23/04 ; F25D21/04 ; F25D23/06 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
A refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage compartment with a door pivotally coupled the cabinet between open and closed positions. A mullion assembly is operably coupled to the door between retracted and deployed positions relative to the door. The mullion assembly includes at least one receiving recess disposed on an inner surface thereof. At least one camera device is mounted on an inside edge of the door and vertically aligned with the at least one receiving recess of the mullion assembly, such that the camera device faces into the storage compartment when the first door is in the closed position, and is received in the receiving recess of the mullion assembly when the mullion assembly is in the retracted position. The camera device may also be mounted to a fixed portion of a hinge assembly that interconnects the mullion assembly and the door.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190113276A1 REFRIGERATOR HAVING A CAMERA SELECTIVELY ENCLOSED BY A ROTATING MULLION ASSEMBLY Public/Granted day:2019-04-18
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