Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Fernando De Luca

Giuliano Lovisotto

Hubert Dorigo

Andrea De Pellegrin

Andrea Mazzon

Stefano Morandini

Paolo Quattrin

Alberto Bas

Rodolfo Marcuz

Marie Lambertsson

Guiliano Lovisotto

A household appliance having a control panel, a control unit, and a touch display connected to the control unit. The control unit is configured to contemporaneously display a plurality of operating functions on the touch display and to receive and to process user input, whereby the touch display displays a plurality of operating functions, among them a highlighted operating function, whereby each of the displayed operating functions is selectable by touching it at least one time.

Household appliance with a touch display

A method for operating a laundry treatment appliance having a casing within which a drum rotated by a motor is arranged, an opening provided in the casing for loading the laundry into the drum and a door adapted to open or to close the opening. The method includes performing a treatment cycle that includes: a) determining the amount of laundry load in the drum; and b) if the determined amount of laundry is outside a laundry load threshold range, issuing a warning to the user and waiting for a prescribed waiting time before starting the cycle, whereby during the waiting time the laundry treatment appliance switches to an operating mode in which the user to is allowed to change the amount of laundry load in the drum.

Method for operating a laundry treatment appliance and laundry treatment appliance

Household appliance () has a rotatable user interface element () which during a rotation by one full round engages in a discrete number of defined rotational positions. At least one group () of light elements () is provided. The appliance () is configured such that the light elements are illuminated and/or can be activated depending on the rotational state and/or movement of said rotatable user interface element () wherein the number of rotational position is larger than the number of light elements in said group ().

Household appliance with a rotational user interface element

An electric household appliance () has an electronic control unit () powered by a low-voltage power unit (), and a device () for reducing energy consumption of the electric household appliance in standby mode. The device includes: a bistable relay () which is switched by a low-voltage enabling signal (S) to a closed position to turn on the low-voltage power unit (), or is switched by a disabling signal (S) to an open position to turn off the low-voltage power unit (); a low-voltage capacitive power unit () designed to generate the low-voltage enabling signal (S); and a hand-operated control device () interposed between the low-voltage capacitive power unit () and the bistable relay () to supply the low-voltage enabling signal (S) to the bistable relay.

Device for reducing standby-mode energy consumption of an electric household appliance

An electric household appliance has a low-voltage capacitive power means () connected to an electrical power network () and is designed to generate a low-voltage (S,V). The low-voltage capacitive power means () comprise a capacitive dividing circuit () comprising a first () and second input terminal () connected to a first and second power line () at a first (V) and second (V) predetermined potential respectively; a first output terminal () adapted to generate said low-voltage enabling signal (S); first () and second charge-accumulating means () connected between said first and second input terminal; and at least one voltage limiter () connected parallel to said second charge-accumulating means () and designed to switch from a non-conducting to a conducting state when subjected to a voltage above a predetermined breakdown voltage (VZ). The first () and second charge-accumulating means () are designed so that the voltage (V) at the terminals of said second charge-accumulating means () is below the predetermined breakdown voltage (VZ).

Household appliance circuit arrangement

The control-panel assembly () for household appliances and the like, includes: an outer dashboard (), and at least one rigid protecting box (). The outer dashboard () is provided with at least one protruding appendix () that sticks out of its rear face () and that has a coupling ridge () provided with a number of consecutive coupling segments () that are tilted relative to one another. The protecting box () is provided with a corresponding cap appendix () dimensioned for resting onto the top of the protruding appendix (), and which has at least one coupling portion () which is shaped for stably matching with any one of the consecutive coupling segments () of the coupling ridge () of the protruding appendix (). This allows a discrete adjustment of the spatial orientation of the protecting box () with respect to the rear face () of the outer dashboard ().

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Sacile, Italy

Fernando De Luca