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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2022
Applicant:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Inventors:
Arkadiusz Michal Teclaw, Wroclaw, PL;
Ajay Ram Narayana Pillai, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Priyanka Popat Mali, Maharashtra, IN;
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 15/42 (2006.01); A47L 15/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 15/4293 (2013.01); A47L 15/14 (2013.01); A47L 15/4257 (2013.01);
Abstract
A user interface for a home appliance comprises a circuit board having an array of manually-actuated switches and an array of light sources. The user interface further comprises an input interface spaced from the circuit board and having an array of optical transmission elements corresponding to the array of light sources, an array of light guides extending between the corresponding light sources and optical transmission elements, and an array of actuators corresponding to the manually-actuated switches.