Operating and display device for a domestic appliance, and domestic appliance

US9235306B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BSH Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Lubert · Berlin, DE
• Lothar Knopp · Berlin, DE
• Thomas Ludenia · Falkensee, DE
• Gino Wybranietz · Falkensee, DE
• Dietmar Bruss · Wenzenbach, DE
• Erich Schmid · Nuremberg, DE
• Peter Vogelsang · Regensburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 12, 2016
• Expiry date: Aug 24, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D06F2105/58
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

The invention relates to an operating and display device (11) for a domestic appliance, comprising operating means for setting at least one parameter of an operating process of the domestic appliance, a light conductor part (24, 34) for conducting light, a plurality of function symbols (13, 14, 15), which each symbolize a respective selectable value of the parameter, and a lighting device (47) for backlighting the function symbols (13, 14, 15), by means of which lighting device the function symbol (13, 14, 15) associated with the presently selected value of the parameter can be optically distinguished from the other function symbols (13, 14, 15), wherein the operating means are designed as touch-sensitive operating means and have a touch-sensitive actuation surface (16), which is arranged such as to overlap with the function symbols (13, 14, 15) and thus the value of the parameter associated with one of the function symbols (13, 14, 15) can be selected by touching the actuation surface (16) in an overlap area (17) that overlaps with one of the function symbols (13, 14, 15).