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US 12,546,043 B2Granted
Impeller for laundry washing machine
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorsBryan T. Snook, Christopher G. Hoppe
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Abstract
An impeller for a laundry washing machine having one or more scooping members. The one or more scooping member may include a variety of positions relative to the impeller. The one or more scooping members may pivot to one or more positions to direct or lift fluid. The one or more scooping members may define one or more fluid pathways.
Claims13
A laundry washing machine having an impeller, the impeller comprising:
- a rotating member having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the rotating member is positioned within a wash drum and having one or more vanes projecting upwardly from the top surface, and wherein the rotating member includes one or more openings positioned circumferentially between two adjacent vanes and extending from the top surface to the bottom surface of the rotating member;
- at least one scooping member is positioned within the one or more openings in a fixed depending position from the bottom surface of the impeller and directing fluid from beneath the rotating member upwardly above the rotating member;
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- wherein the at least one scooping member is positioned at an acute angle relative to the bottom surface of the impeller, wherein the at least one scooping member includes a top surface and an opposing bottom surface extending at the acute angle between a trailing edge and a leading edge of the at least one scooping member, and wherein the top surface of the at least one scooping member includes at least one arcuate surface.
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A laundry washing machine having an impeller, the impeller comprising:
- a rotating member within a wash drum and rotates about an axis and having one or more openings extending from a top surface to a bottom surface of the rotating member parallel to the axis, wherein the one or more openings are adjacent an outer periphery of the rotating member;
- wherein the rotating member includes at least one diverter, the at least one diverter is fixed in position within the one or more openings of the rotating member to define one or more fluid pathways through the one or more openings from the bottom surface to the top surface;
- the at least one diverter extends downwardly from the bottom surface below the one or more openings of the rotating member towards at least one rotational direction to define a first fluid pathway of the one or more fluid pathways through the one or more openings extending through the bottom surface and the top surface;
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- wherein the at least one diverter is angled downwardly below the one or more openings transversely to the axis, wherein a trailing edge of the at least one diverter is adjacent the one or more openings and a free leading edge of the at least one diverter is distal from the one or more openings at a lower elevation than the trailing edge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.