Household appliance

US5908227A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Johann Wilhelmstatter · Giengen an der Brenz, DE
• Helmut Jerg · Giengen an der Brenz, DE
• Bernd Schessl · Dillingen/Saar, DE
• Gerhard Fetzer · Süßen, DE
• Michael Hartmann · Wien, AT
• Markus Höpfl · Lauingen, DE
• Karl-Heinz Rehm · Dischingen, DE
• Rudolf Schmidt · Giengen an der Brenz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 1997
• Grant date: Jun 1, 1999
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F24C7/082
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

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.