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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2017
Electrolux Home Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Paul Stoufer, Lincolnton, NC (US);
ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC., Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus such as an appliance with a printed circuit board, PCB, () mounted haptic feedback device () is provided. The apparatus comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) having an opening () defined therein, and a spool () affixed to the PCB and having a shaft with a coil () wound thereabout. The shaft defines an opening aligned with the opening of the PCB. The apparatus also comprises a spring-loaded plunger positioned and movable within the opening of the shaft. The spring-loaded plunger includes a metallic disk operatively coupled to an end of the plunger and distally positioned to the spool. A control component of the apparatus is configured to energize the coil according to a haptic feedback pattern, and thereby cause the coil to at tract the metallic disk and move the plunger within the opening of the shaft of the spool, and through the opening of the PCB.