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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2011
Lindsay Eng, Long Beach, CA (US);
Michael Georg Rosenbauer, Reimlingen, DE;
Metin Tastan, Dillingen, DE;
Ralf Winkler, New Bern, NC (US);
Lindsay Eng, Long Beach, CA (US);
Michael Georg Rosenbauer, Reimlingen, DE;
Metin Tastan, Dillingen, DE;
Ralf Winkler, New Bern, NC (US);
BSH Home Appliances Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A household appliance including an information light device that allows a user of the household appliance to determine when the household device is in operation, and a method thereof. The information light device may include a light guide structured to indicate an operating status of the household appliance. The light guide may be disposed at a lower portion of the household appliance, and embodied as a wave guide where at least part of the light that exits the light guide is guided in a direction that is perpendicular to the light guide and onto a floor where the household appliance is disposed.