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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2019
Electrolux Home Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Timothy Willis, Clemson, SC (US);
Electrolux Home Products, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
A refrigeration appliance including both a user interface and door position sensor. The same devices and sensors are for both functions. The user interface is mounted on a door or mullion in such a way that all or nearly all of the input devices on the user interface are activated simultaneously or nearly simultaneously when a door is closed so that the user interface can distinguish this action from user inputs in which only one or two input devices are activated at a time. Likewise, when all input devices are inactivated nearly simultaneously, the user interface may know that a door has been opened.