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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Electric appliance () includes control section () having a plurality of operation modes, driving source () controlled by control section (), and switch () for switching between the operation modes. Control section () is configured to perform a first determination and a second determination in response to an operation duration of switch () in order to determine a type of the operation of switch (), and to set an operation mode after the operation of switch () in response to the results of the first and second determinations and an operation mode before the operation of switch (). In the present aspect, the operability of switching between the operation modes in electric appliance () is improved.