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US 12,495,949 B2Granted
Dishwasher
AssigneeFisher & Paykel Appliances Limited
InventorBiao Chai
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Abstract
A dishwasher comprises an internal reservoir for rinse-aid or other wash or rinse additive, a door associated with a refill port to the rinse-aid reservoir, and a flexible conduit between the refill port and the rinse-aid reservoir. The door associated with the refill port to the rinse-aid reservoir may also carry or enable access to a detergent compartment.
Claims21
A dishwasher comprising:
- an additive reservoir,
- a pivotally-mounted door associated with a refill port to the additive reservoir, and
- a flexible conduit between the refill port and the additive, reservoir through which additive may be supplied to the additive reservoir,
- wherein a closure cap for the refill port is carried by and pivotally-mounted to, the door.
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A dishwasher comprising:
- a detergent compartment,
- a door to the detergent compartment,
- a rinse-aid reservoir,
- a refill port to the rinse-aid reservoir, the refill port carried by the door to the detergent compartment,
- a closure cap to the refill port to the rinse-aid reservoir, the rinse-aid closure cap associated with the door to the detergent compartment, and
- a resiliently flexible and/or compressible conduit between the rinse-aid refill port and the rinse-aid reservoir.
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A dishwasher comprising:
- an additive reservoir,
- a door associated with a refill port to the additive reservoir,
- a flexible conduit between the refill port and the additive reservoir through which additive may be supplied to the additive reservoir an additive metering chamber, and
- a conduit from the metering chamber to an upper part of the additive reservoir enabling air to evacuate from the metering chamber to an upper part of the additive reservoir when additive is priming from the additive reservoir into the metering chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.