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US 10,295,891 B2Granted
Refrigeration appliance with ice and water dispenser and method of operating the appliance
AssigneeBSH Hausgeraete GmbH
InventorsRalph Staud, Thomas Tischer, Marco Reitwiessner, Andreas Kessler, Andreas Korte
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Abstract
A refrigeration appliance has an ice and water dispenser with a container receptacle. The refrigeration appliance has a light projector for projecting information into the container receptacle. A method serves to operate a refrigeration appliance, in which information is projected into a container receptacle of an ice and water dispenser by a light projector.
Claims12
A refrigeration appliance, comprising:
- an ice and water dispenser having a container receptacle;
- a light projector for projecting information into said container receptacle;
- and
- a lever switch projecting into said container receptacle and said light projector projecting the information onto said lever switch.
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A refrigeration appliance, comprising:
- an ice and water dispenser having a container receptacle;
- a light projector for projecting information into said container receptacle;
- and
- a presence detector operating in a contact-free manner for detecting a position of objects in said container receptacle and set up to recognize a presence of the object in a vicinity of projected selection information as an actuation of the projected selection information using said presence detector and set up to carry out an action adapted to actuated selection information upon recognition of an actuation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.