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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1997
Johann Wilhelmstatter, Giengen/Hurben, DE;
Helmut Jerg, Giengen, DE;
Bernd Schessl, Dillingen, DE;
Gerhard Fetzer, Gundelfingen, DE;
Michael Hartmann, Hochstadt, DE;
Markus Hopfl, Lauingen/Donau, DE;
Karl-Heinz Rehm, Dischingen, DE;
Rudolf Schmidt, Giengen, DE;
BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A household appliance has a panel that is disposed on the front of the appliance and optionally has control and display elements. The panel has a panel body that receives the control and display elements and striplike laminations mounted along a lower peripheral zone of the panel body. In order to ensure that the panel is simple in construction and the laminations can be combined simply and reliably with one another and with the panel body, the laminations are joined to one another and to the panel body solely by a detent device.