Optical waveguide device for a cooking appliance

Abstract

An optical waveguide device for guiding light emitted from a light source into an interior space of a household appliance includes an optical waveguide designed to emit light, introduced into the optical waveguide at a first end of the optical waveguide, to a second end of the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide has a cylindrical outer surface between the first end of the optical waveguide and the second end of the optical waveguide. A carrier is can be coupled directly or indirectly to the household appliance and includes an optical waveguide receptacle designed to receive the optical waveguide and to fix the optical waveguide axially and radially, said carrier connected to the optical waveguide by way of the outer surface, with the optical waveguide receptacle contacting the outer surface of the optical waveguide over a periphery of the optical waveguide.