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A technology for household appliances and indicators, which is applied in household appliances, household cleaning devices, applications, etc., can solve problems such as the difficulty of identifying signal light, the difficulty of seeing signal light, and the inability to verify the working status of household appliances, so as to improve visibility The effect of simplifying and simplifying inventory management

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-04-01
BSH BOSCH & SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE GMBH
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The problem with a fully modular household appliance is that when the front door of said fully modular household appliance is closed, an optical operating indicator is concealed by the appliance panel and thus cannot be checked Working status of fully combinable household appliances
[0005] A disadvantage of the devices described in EP 0 691 100 A1 and DE 100 22 206 C2 is that the signal light in the light conductor is difficult to see for a user standing in front of a built-in household appliance or a dishwasher , since the light guide is located in a gap between the bottom of the work plate and the edge of the appliance door and is covered by the work plate from above
Especially when an appliance front of great thickness is used, it becomes difficult to detect the signal light, since in this way the light guide is additionally covered from below by the appliance front

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[0023] figure 1 A domestic appliance 1 , in particular a dishwasher or a refrigeration appliance, shown in a schematic side view, rests on a base 2 and is covered by a worktop 3 . The domestic appliance 1 comprises a front door 4 with a front side 5 , an upper edge 6 , a lower edge 7 and side edges 8 . On the front side 5 of the front door 4 there is an appliance panel 9 as a covering element, which can be a so-called furniture panel.

[0024] Signal light 11 emerges from an optical operating indicator 10 located on the side edge 8 of the front door 4 and is transmitted by means of an optical conductor 12 to the front 13 of the appliance panel 9 so that even when the front door 4 is closed Check the working status of the household appliance 1.

[0025] figure 2 The matching of the light transmission path for different thicknesses of the appliance panel is shown in .

[0026] The side edge 8 of the front door 4 of the domestic appliance 1 surrounds an optical operating ind...

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The invention relates to a domestic appliance (1), in particular a built-in domestic appliance comprising at least one optical operation indicator (10), which can be covered by at least one cover element (3, 9), at least one fibre optic (12, 23) being coupled to the optical operation indicator (10) for transmitting at least one emitted light signal (11). The aim of the invention is to improve the visibility of the light signal of the operation indicator(s) (10). To achieve this, the fibre optic (12, 23) is configured in such a way that its light route (27, 27') can be adapted to the thickness of the cover element (3, 9).

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a household appliance, in particular a built-in household appliance, which has at least one optical operating indicator which can be covered by at least one cover element, wherein at least one light conductor is connected to the optical operating indicator. On the work indicator for transmitting at least one emitted signal light. Background technique [0002] Various household appliances are known, such as, for example, kitchen household appliances, which basically include kitchen appliances, refrigeration appliances and dishwashers. In particular for refrigeration appliances and dishwashers there are so-called fully modular household appliances, the entire front of which is equipped with an appliance panel which can be matched to the surrounding furniture front. The problem with a fully modular household appliance is that when the front door of said fully modular household appliance is closed, an optical operating indicator i...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): A47L15/42G02B6/42F21V8/00
CPCG02B6/0008A47L15/4293
Inventor W·卡茨马雷克
Owner BSH BOSCH & SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE GMBH
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