Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

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John R Rudolph

Bobby Hayes

Robert McCoy

Gary W Fisher

James S Hughes

Maureen Donoho

Frank Downing

William Yao

Lisa M Levy

Mizanur Rahman Khan Chowdhury

Provided is a user interface comprising a substrate having a through-hole, an annular touch sensor array located on the substrate and at least partially surrounding the through-hole, and a display device in alignment the through-hole.

User interface with annular touch sensor array

Provided is a display comprising a first plurality of light-emitting elements forming an annular bar graph, and a numerical display within the annular bar graph. The annular bar graph displays information graphically, and the numerical display simultaneously displays the same information numerically.

Annular bar graph and multi-segment display

A disappearing interface system for a device, such as an appliance (e.g., a cooking range) having an interactive user interface, a light-emitting device (e.g., a LED), a microprocessor based LED fader electronic control system that uses a PWM signal to drive an A/D circuit to control the intensity (e.g., fade in/out) of the light-emitting device.

Disappearing interface system

A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a tone circuit for outputting a melody using the tones to notify the user of the existence of one of the status events.

Appliance audio notification device

A communication arrangement for a household appliance device. The arrangement includes a first communication part including a transmitter for transmitting a wireless signal, and a second communication part, remotely located from the first communication part, including a receiver for receiving the wireless signal. One of the first and second communication parts is associated with the appliance device. In one aspect, the second communication part includes a processor to process the signal and nullify the effects of noise transmitted in the signal. In one aspect, the signal is an RF signal, and the second communication part includes means to over sample the signal.

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Antioch, TN, United States of America

John R Rudolph