Diehl Ako Stiftung & Co. Kg

Lobau Gmbh & Co. Kg

Elobau Gmbh & Co. Kg

Michael Prinz

Uwe Heimann

Dirk Golz

Reinhard Lutz

Nadine Hildebrand

Uwe Heiman

Frank Rowenski

Roland Pippirs

Klaus-Peter Koch

Michael Sonntag

Fritz Siebachmeyer

A suction lance comprising at least one tube and a guide body made from an elastomer material axially displaceable on this tube is provided. The suction lance comprises a retaining section for a connecting body, a conical section axially adjoining the retaining section, the radially largest section whereof lies axially closer to the retaining section than the radially smallest section thereof, and a connecting body for the detachable connection of the suction lance to a removal opening of a container. The connecting body is fastened to the retaining section of the guide body, and the conical section of the guide body, by reason of its material, its radial size and the shape of its external contour, is designed to act in case of use as a sealing body in a removal opening of a container.

Suction lance

A contact and/or proximity-sensitive input device has a cover plate with a light-transmissive control section facing a user of the input device and forming a control field for the user. A light-transmissive sensor film has at least one capacitive sensor field. A carrier plate carries at least one lighting device. The input device also has a light-transmissive decorative film with at least one decorative element. The film is a separate component from the sensor film so that the decorative film can be produced independently of the sensor film and can be adapted simply to desired variants of the input device. The carrier plate, decorative film, sensor film and cover plate are arranged successively in such a way that the light emitted by the lighting device passes through the decorative film, sensor film and control section of the cover plate.

Contact and/or proximity-sensitive input device

A touch- and/or proximity-sensitive input device has a cover plate with a control section. The side of the control section facing a user forms a control field for the user and a side facing away from the user forms a sensor plane. A sensor film has at least one capacitive sensor field within the control section of the cover plate. A carrier plate has at least one electric contact field. The cover plate has a contacting section next to the control section and the side facing away from the user forms a contacting plane. The sensor film has an electric contact field next to the sensor field. At least one electric contact element connects the electric contact field of the sensor film electrically conductively to the at least one electric contact field of the carrier plate.

Touch- and/or proximity-sensitive input device, and household appliance having the input device

A rotary knob operator control apparatus for an electrical domestic appliance has a mounting board on a side of an operator control panel facing away from a user, a first electrode configuration on the mounting board and a substantially annular operator control element on a side of the operator control panel facing toward the user. The operator control element has a second electrode configuration and a holding device for the operator control element on the operator control panel. The operator control element rotates about an axis perpendicular to the operator control panel. The operator control element is latched relative to the operator control panel in predefined rotary positions by a latching device, so the second electrode configuration on the operator control element is oriented in a predefined manner relative to the first electrode configuration. An electrical domestic appliance having at least one rotary knob operator control apparatus is also provided.

Rotary knob operator control apparatus and domestic appliance having at least one rotary knob operator control apparatus

An operator control apparatus for an electrical household appliance has an operator control panel on that side of the operator control apparatus that faces a user and defines an operator control area. A functional assembly is arranged on that face of the operator control panel that is averted from the user. The functional assembly has touch- and/or proximity-sensitive touch-operated switch. The at least one touch-operated switch of the functional assembly is positioned so as to correspond to operator control area of the operator control panel. A connecting apparatus is permanently connected to the operator control panel and releasably connected to the functional assembly, or in the alternative it is permanently connected to the functional assembly while it is releasably connected to the operator control panel. In this way, the functional assembly is releasably attached to the operator control panel but without play.

Operator control apparatus for an electrical household appliance

A capacitive touch switch, for a control panel of a domestic electrical appliance, includes a touch panel having an upper side and an underside. A printed circuit board is disposed at a distance below the underside of the touch panel. A sensor element is disposed between the underside of the touch panel and the printed circuit board and is in electrically conductive contact with the printed circuit board. The capacitive sensor element has a compression spring formed of an electrically conductive material and a contact element formed of an electrically conductive material, which is disposed on that side of the compression spring which faces the touch panel and which is in electrically conductive contact with the compression spring.

Capacitive touch switch

Described is a display device () with a printed circuit board (), with at least one light source () and with a single-segment or multi-segment display () which is connected by optical waveguides () to the light sources () which are preferably SMD-LEDs. The display device () has a block () for holding the optical waveguides () firmly in position, with a front surface associated with the single-segment or multi-segment display () and a base surface associated with the light sources (). The optical waveguides () are in the form of light fingers () which extend through the block (). The printed circuit board () can include any angle of between 0 and &#x2267;90&#xb0; with the multi-segment display ().

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Leutkirch, Germany

Michael Prinz