Method of operating a refrigerator
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsArun Talegaonkar, Daniel Renz, Geoffrey Lee Ranard, Bipin N. Shaha, Joseph Thomas Waugh
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Abstract
A method for operating a refrigerator having a driving assembly and an ice storage bin. The driving assembly is releasably engageable with the ice storage bin. The driving assembly has a motor fork. The ice storage bin supports an axle, to which a coupler is secured. The method includes engaging the motor fork with the coupler secured, rotating the motor fork in a first direction based on a user's input, and rotating the motor fork in a second direction opposite to the first direction for a predetermined time or by a predetermined angle at the end of the user's input.
Claims7
A method of operating a refrigerator comprising a driving assembly and an ice storage bin releasably engageable with each other, the driving assembly having a motor fork, the ice storage bin supporting an axle to which a coupler is secured, the method comprising:
- engaging the motor fork with the coupler;
- rotating the motor fork in a first direction based on a user's input;
- and
- rotating the motor fork automatically in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, for a predetermined time or by a predetermined angle at the end of the user's input before another user's input, so that the motor fork and the coupler will not block removal of the ice storage bin from the driving assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.