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公开(公告)号:US12245735B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-11
申请号:US17680366
申请日:2022-02-25
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer
Abstract: A tubular spray element for a dishwasher is rotatably supported and/or supplied with fluid at an intermediate location along the length of the tubular spray element, such that least one aperture that directs fluid into a wash tub is disposed on each side of the intermediate location. In addition, a tubular spray element drive may be positioned externally from the wash tub and mechanically coupled to the tubular spray element through a shaft seal such that the fluid supply to the tubular spray element can be entirely within the wash tub.
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公开(公告)号:US12029369B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-09
申请号:US17490874
申请日:2021-09-30
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer , Robert M. Digman
CPC classification number: A47L15/22 , A47L15/0065 , A47L15/4242 , A47L15/4246 , A47L15/486
Abstract: A beverage container washing system may be used for rapid washing and/or sanitizing of beverage containers, e.g., for use in a retail environment to wash and/or sanitize customer-provided beverage containers prior to filling the beverage containers with purchased beverages, among other applications. The beverage container washing system may include a pop-up sprayer that includes multiple nozzles, one of which is oriented to spray wash fluid into an interior of a beverage container and another of which is oriented to spray wash fluid onto an outer lip of the beverage container.
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公开(公告)号:US12022988B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-02
申请号:US17490894
申请日:2021-09-30
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer
CPC classification number: A47L15/4242 , A47L15/0065 , A47L15/14
Abstract: A beverage container washing system may be used for rapid washing and/or sanitizing of beverage containers, e.g., for use in a retail environment to wash and/or sanitize customer-provided beverage containers prior to filling the beverage containers with purchased beverages, among other applications. The beverage container washing system may include multiple concentric housing members supported on a base, and a slip ring configured to supply power to one or more ultraviolet lights of an ultraviolet sanitizing assembly and disposed on a rotatable one of the concentric housing members.
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公开(公告)号:US12011132B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-18
申请号:US17490879
申请日:2021-09-30
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Robert M. Digman , Daniel J. Trice , Joel Boyer , John Kenneth Hooker , Bassam Fawaz
CPC classification number: A47L15/4242 , A47L15/0028 , A47L15/0036 , A47L15/0065 , A47L15/4202 , A47L15/4246 , A47L15/4285 , A47L15/486 , A47L2401/09 , A47L2401/14 , A47L2501/01 , A47L2501/16
Abstract: A beverage container washing system may be used for rapid washing and/or sanitizing of beverage containers, e.g., for use in a retail environment to wash and/or sanitize customer-provided beverage containers prior to filling the beverage containers with purchased beverages, among other applications. Separate entrance and exit openings may be provided in some instances to minimize employee interaction with unwashed customer beverage containers. A spray assembly may be used to spray wash fluid heated to a sanitizing temperature onto beverage containers and an ultraviolet sanitizing assembly may be used to emit ultraviolet light toward beverage containers. The spray assembly may also include a tank with first and second chambers and a cross-over with an inverted conduit fluidly coupling the first and second chambers.
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公开(公告)号:US11877711B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-23
申请号:US18045609
申请日:2022-10-11
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer , Bassam Fawaz
CPC classification number: A47L15/0055 , A47L15/428 , A47L15/4282
Abstract: A dishwasher includes an image-based detergent sensor that in some instances is configured to sense a type of detergent for use in optimizing a wash cycle based upon the type of detergent, and that in some instances is configured to direct one or more controllable sprayers to facilitate dissolution or mixing of detergent into a wash fluid during a wash cycle.
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公开(公告)号:US11864705B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-09
申请号:US17556378
申请日:2021-12-20
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Russell Dietrich , Bassam Fawaz , Robert M. Digman , Joel Boyer
CPC classification number: A47L15/0028 , A47L15/4244
Abstract: A dishwasher includes a thermal imaging device configured to capture thermal images in a wash tub of the dishwasher and a controller configured to control the thermal imaging device to capture one or more thermal images of a utensil in the wash tub and to configure an operation of a wash cycle based upon a temperature of the utensil as determined from the thermal image.
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公开(公告)号:US20230414058A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-28
申请号:US17848866
申请日:2022-06-24
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer , Robert M. Digman
CPC classification number: A47L15/0065 , A47L15/0076 , A47L15/4219 , A47L15/4225 , A47L15/4285 , A47L15/4202 , A47L15/0028 , A47L15/4287 , A47L15/4242 , A47L15/486 , A47L15/0036 , A47L15/0034 , A47L15/0031 , A47L15/0023 , A61L2/10 , A47L2401/12 , A47L2501/16 , A47L2501/12 , A47L2501/02 , A47L2501/01 , A47L2501/05 , A47L2501/06 , A61L2202/11 , A61L2202/14 , A61L2202/17 , A61L2202/23
Abstract: A beverage container washing system may utilize a heated wash fluid circulation system to circulate wash fluid retained in a line between a tank and a sprayer to enable fluid that is supplied to the sprayer to be maintained at a suitable temperature for washing and/or sanitizing a beverage container, and in many instances regardless of the amount of time between wash cycles.
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公开(公告)号:US20230270315A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-31
申请号:US17680366
申请日:2022-02-25
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer
CPC classification number: A47L15/46 , A47L15/23 , A47L15/4221 , A47L15/4225 , A47L15/4285 , A47L15/4293 , A47L15/449 , A47L15/486 , A47L15/507 , A47L2501/01 , A47L2501/04 , A47L2501/12 , A47L2501/20
Abstract: A tubular spray element for a dishwasher is rotatably supported and/or supplied with fluid at an intermediate location along the length of the tubular spray element, such that least one aperture that directs fluid into a wash tub is disposed on each side of the intermediate location. In addition, a tubular spray element drive may be positioned externally from the wash tub and mechanically coupled to the tubular spray element through a shaft seal such that the fluid supply to the tubular spray element can be entirely within the wash tub.
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公开(公告)号:US20230263363A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-24
申请号:US17674930
申请日:2022-02-18
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer , Robert M. Digman
CPC classification number: A47L15/428 , A47L15/0065 , A47L15/0076 , A47L15/4242 , B05B3/12 , A61L2/10 , A61L2/22 , A61L2202/23 , A61L2202/17 , A61L2202/15 , A61L2202/122
Abstract: A beverage container washing system may be used for rapid washing and/or sanitizing of beverage containers, e.g., for use in a retail environment to wash and/or sanitize customer-provided beverage containers prior to filling the beverage containers with purchased beverages, among other applications. The beverage container washing system may include a pop-up ultraviolet sanitizer that may be used to sanitize an interior of a beverage container by extending into an opening of the beverage container and emitting ultraviolet light onto an interior surface of the beverage container.
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公开(公告)号:US20230255441A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-17
申请号:US17671872
申请日:2022-02-15
Applicant: Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Inventor: Joel Boyer , Robert M. Digman
IPC: A47L15/42
CPC classification number: A47L15/428
Abstract: A tubular spray element for a dishwasher is formed in part using an elongated metal tube joined with a molded polymer support member using one or more retaining tabs that are molded into the support member and that project within a sleeve in the support member to engage with cooperative mounting apertures in the elongated metal tube and thereby restrict relative movement between the elongated metal tube and the support member both about and along a longitudinal axis of the tubular spray element.
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