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AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsJoseph Thomas Waugh, Jose Rafael Padron, Jordan Andrew Waymeyer
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A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a door rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, and an autofill pitcher dispensing system. The system includes a removable pitcher defining an interior portion, a dispenser defining a cavity within the chilled chamber to receive the pitcher and including a fill tube for directing water from a water supply into the interior portion of the pitcher, an electrically operated sensor configured to detect an operational status of the system and generate a signal associated with the detected operational status, and a controller electrically coupled to the sensor. The controller is configured to determine when the autofill pitcher dispensing system is experiencing a leaking condition based on the generated signal.
A refrigerator appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the refrigerator appliance comprising:
An autofill pitcher dispensing system for a refrigerator appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the refrigerator appliance including a cabinet defining a chilled chamber and a door being rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, the autofill pitcher dispensing system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.