发明名称 Refrigerator module utilities enabled via connection
摘要 A connection system for connecting an encoded domestic appliance feature module to a utility source and transferring a plurality of utilities between the encoded feature module and the utility source. The connection system includes a utility source that has a coupler capable of removably engaging an encoded domestic appliance feature module to the utility source. Also included is at least one encoded domestic appliance feature module that independently supplies one or more functionalities. Further included is an interface between the utility source and the feature module, where the interface includes a detection and recognition device that operates to detect when the encoded feature module is connected to the utility source, where one or more predetermined utilities are transferred between the utility source and the feature module based upon which feature module is connected to the utility source, and where the detection and recognition device may be a reed switch, a DIP switch, and a comparator circuit.
申请公布号 US8456040(B2) 申请公布日期 2013.06.04
申请号 US201213644258 申请日期 2012.10.03
申请人 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION 发明人 ALLARD PAUL B.;BRADLEY ROBERT RYAN;KENDALL JAMES W.;KUEHL STEVEN J.;LECLEAR DOUGLAS D.;LUCAS ALAN S.;TENBARGE ANDREW M.;VONDERHAAR JOHN J.;WU GUOLIAN
分类号 H02B1/20;B67D9/00 主分类号 H02B1/20
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