Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Volkmar Bunzel

Christoph Luckhardt

Branko Ivanovic

Dietmar Hildner

Klaus Winkelmann

Erhard Käser

Stefan Dänzer

Erhard Kaser

Michele Toppano

Peter Hoffmann

Alexander Hauck

Dominik Rauh

Jessica Constanze Baschke

Klaus Wälzlein

Friedrich Horn

Gülsüm Feuerlein

Thomas Schulz

Franz Taubner

Gülsüm Feurlein

Jessica-Constanze Baschke

The present invention relates to a domestic appliance, particularly a cooking oven, comprising a chassis and a door hinged to the chassis at a rotating axis of the door, wherein the door comprises at least one door panel, at least one door frame attached at an inner side of the door panel, at least one electric or electronic unit attached inside or at the door, at least one electrically conducting cable for interconnecting the electric or electronic unit to a control unit arranged at or in the chassis of the domestic appliance, at least one cable channel attached or attachable to the door frame for guiding a first section of the cable, and at least one cable tube arranged within the region of a rotating axis of the door for guiding a second section of the cable from the door frame to the chassis, wherein the cable tube comprises a main section, and a first end section for connecting the cable tube to the hinge-sided end of the door and a second end section for connecting the cable tube to the chassis, wherein the main section is connecting the first end section the second end section, and wherein at least one of the first end section and/or the second end section configured to be freely pivotable relative to a rotational axis (y) running essentially in parallel to the main section.

Door for a domestic appliance

The present invention relates to a control device having at least one front panel, at least one button panel arranged behind the front panel, and at least one switch responsive to a user's touch of a switchable area on a front side of the front panel in front of said switch. The switch includes at least one light source element arranged at a rear side of the button panel illuminating the rear side of the front panel, and at least one reflector element arranged behind the button panel and the light source element to reflect the light to the rear side of the button panel. The button panel includes at least one cut out that corresponds with the switchable area of the switch or more switchable areas of neighbored switches, so that the light can pass through the cut-out and the front panel to be out of the control device.

Control device, in particular for a domestic appliance

Oven and method for operating an oven, comprising an On/Off-key (), at least one key () for choosing a predefined oven function or for choosing a predefined oven program and/or for programming a not predefined oven program, at least one specific key (), which enables the user to start a preferred oven function or a preferred oven program from an Off-mode or a Standby-mode of the oven, wherein a running oven function or a running oven program can be saved by a memory unit as a preferred oven function or as a preferred oven program, when the specific key () is actuated at least for a predetermined period of time.

Oven and method for operating an oven

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