Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

Matthew C Bobinski

Josh Hanson

Raony Barrios

Cory Dale Simpson

William Thomas Anniss, Iii

Cornel Comsa

John Thomas Campbell, Iii

Matthew Ortner

Cleo Rudolph Fulgham, Jr

Christian P Detlefsen

James T Mchan

Michael Melecci

Robert Rankin Mckechnie, Iv

Provided is a refrigeration appliance including a storage compartment, a user interface controller, and a user interface arranged in the storage compartment. The user interface is a stacked arrangement including a sensor assembly carrier, a graphic overlay, a light guide, and a printed circuit board (PCB) with a user interface controller and a self-capacitive electrode sensor. The main controller receives a signal from the user interface with self-capacitive electrode sensor and adjusts the temperature of the storage compartment based on the signal from the self-capacitive electrode sensor. A method controlling a refrigeration appliance with a stacked user interface is also provided.

Single button capacitive user interface

A refrigeration appliance includes a compartment for storing food items in a refrigerated environment, the compartment being illuminated by at least one modular LED illumination device. The portion of the illumination device disposed within the compartment is generally flush with a mounting section and includes an LED lighting module arranged in a housing. The module has a board member, two or more LED light sources electrically connected to one another and to the board member, and two or more electrical edge connections for allowing electrically parallel connection between two or more modules being interchangeable with one another. A concave reflecting surface is positioned adjacent the module with a majority of light emitted from the LED light sources being incident thereon for reflection into the compartment. A liner defining the compartment has the mounting section to which the housing is mounted, where the mounting section has an inward draft angle.

Modular LED illumination device

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Anderson, SC, United States of America

Matthew C Bobinski