EP 1683902 A1 20060726 - Clothes washing or drying machine with improved controls
Title (en)
Clothes washing or drying machine with improved controls
Title (de)
Maschine zum Waschen oder zum Trocknen von Wäsche mit verbesserter Steuervorrichtung
Title (fr)
Machine à laver ou à sécher le linge équipé d'un dispositif de commande amélioré
Publication
Application
Priority
EP 05100355 A 20050120
Abstract (en)
Clothes washing or drying machine comprising: means for setting and controlling the operating cycle of the machine, response and user information means, means for processing the commands received from said control and setting means. The control and setting means comprise: selection devices associated to specific control variables that can be selected independently from a plurality of different states, and said response means comprise a plurality of user-information display devices, each one of which is adapted to take a respective multiplicity of states, to each one of which there corresponds a particular combination of the states taken by said control variables. Each combination of said plurality of distinct states of said control variables is associated to a predetermined set of instructions and programmes residing in said data storage means and adapted to act on respective operating devices of the machine.
IPC 8 full level
D06F 33/02 (2006.01); D06F 34/28 (2020.01); D06F 39/00 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
D06F 34/28 (2020.02 - EP US); D06F 2101/06 (2020.02 - EP US); D06F 2101/10 (2020.02 - EP US); D06F 2101/12 (2020.02 - EP US); D06F 2105/58 (2020.02 - EP US); D06F 2105/60 (2020.02 - EP US); D06F 2105/62 (2020.02 - EP US)
Citation (search report)
- [X] EP 0844326 A1 19980527 - MERLONI ELETTRODOMESTICI SPA [IT]
- [X] GB 2008286 A 19790531 - PHILIPS NV
- [X] US 4455653 A 19840619 - LE GARS JACQUES [FR], et al
- [X] EP 0725181 A1 19960807 - MERLONI ELETTRODOMESTICI SPA [IT]
- [X] DE 3932170 A1 19910404 - LICENTIA GMBH [DE]
- [A] US 2004134238 A1 20040715 - BUCKROYD JAMES DAVID [US], et al
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 1683902 A1 20060726; AU 2005244543 A1 20060803; CA 2533197 A1 20060720; CN 1807748 A 20060726; US 2006156764 A1 20060720
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 05100355 A 20050120; AU 2005244543 A 20051215; CA 2533197 A 20060116; CN 200610006457 A 20060120; US 32195905 A 20051229