US 12,467,191 B2
Detergent pod dispensing drawer for a laundry treatment appliance
Christopher Jaynes, Louisville, KY (US); Karlarrious Dawain Donar, Jr., Louisville, KY (US); Christopher Gene Vowels, Cox's Creek, KY (US); V V Subrahmanyeswara Rao Kasa, Narsapur (IN); and Troy Marshall Wright, Louisville, KY (US)
Assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/875,018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0035223 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. D06F 39/02 (2006.01); D06F 23/04 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 39/022 (2013.01) [D06F 23/04 (2013.01); D06F 39/02 (2013.01); D06F 39/028 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A laundry treatment appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the laundry treatment appliance comprising:
a cabinet defining a drawer receiving space;
a tub accommodated within the cabinet, the tub storing water;
a basket rotatably mounted within the tub to rotate about a rotation axis; and
a dispenser drawer slidably received within the drawer receiving space, the dispenser drawer being fluidly coupled to the tub, the dispenser drawer comprising
a base plate;
a plurality of body walls extending from the base plate along the vertical direction to define a detergent chamber; and
a plurality of inner partition portions that are a plurality of solid walls protruding from the base plate along the vertical direction, wherein the plurality of inner partition portions defines a pod compartment that is physically separated from the surrounding detergent chamber by the plurality of solid walls, forming an enclosed space within the detergent chamber, the pod compartment being permanently affixed to the base plate and located within the detergent chamber, the pod compartment being in fluid communication with the detergent chamber through one or more portions of the plurality of inner partition portions.