US 12,077,896 B2
Laundry treating appliance detergent dispenser
Wenqiang Jiang, Hefei (CN); Guang Yang, Hefei (CN); Huaijun Tong, Hefei (CN); Xiaoqian Yao, Hefei (CN); and Yujin Mao, Hefei (CN)
Assigned to Whirlpool China Co., LTD., Hefei (CN)
Filed by WHIRLPOOL CHINA CO., LTD., Hefei (CN)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/103,581.
Application 18/103,581 is a continuation of application No. 17/203,900, filed on Mar. 17, 2021, granted, now 11,591,739.
Application 17/203,900 is a continuation of application No. 15/780,332, granted, now 10,988,886, issued on Apr. 27, 2021, previously published as PCT/US2016/064157, filed on Nov. 30, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 201510981556.8 (CN), filed on Dec. 22, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2023/0167596 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. D06F 39/02 (2006.01); D06F 39/08 (2006.01); D06F 39/12 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 39/02 (2013.01) [D06F 39/022 (2013.01); D06F 39/12 (2013.01); D06F 39/088 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dispenser for a clothes washing machine having an interior with a tub and a dispenser opening, the dispenser comprising:
a water inlet box located within the interior and having a storage cartridge chamber accessible through the dispenser opening, and also having a powder detergent chamber accessible through the dispenser opening and fluidly coupled to the tub;
a storage cartridge removably mountable within the storage cartridge chamber through the dispenser opening and fluidly coupled to the tub; wherein the storage cartridge comprises multiple, fluidly isolated treating chemistry chambers; and
multiple metering pumps, wherein each metering pump of the multiple metering pumps has an inlet fluidly coupled to each corresponding treating chemistry chamber of the multiple treating chemistry chambers.