Method for operator guidance, control panel component, production of a control panel component and home appliance comprising a control panel component
AssigneePAS Deutschland GmbH
InventorOlaf Krause
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Abstract
A rotary knob for a control panel of a home appliance comprises a support collar, a fixed frontal plate forming a cover cap that is arranged at a front end of the support collar, a fixed sensor layer that is operable to detect touch inputs at the frontal plate, discrete indicator elements forming an indicator layer, which are operable to provide operator guidance, a rotatable ring that is rotatably mounted to the support collar, the rotatable ring being rotatable with respect to the fixed frontal plate, and circuitry arranged to detect rotary inputs via the rotatable ring, and touch inputs via the frontal plate.
Claims19
A rotary knob for a control panel of a home appliance, comprising:
- a support collar,
- a fixed frontal plate forming a cover cap that is arranged at a front end of the support collar,
- a fixed sensor layer that is operable to detect touch inputs at the frontal plate, the sensor layer being a 3D-shaped sensor foil which has a shape that corresponds to a geometry of the control panel and the rotary knob,
- discrete indicator elements forming an indicator layer, which include activatable elements, are operable to provide operator guidance,
- a rotatable ring that is rotatably mounted to the support collar, the rotatable ring being rotatable with respect to the fixed frontal plate, and
- circuitry arranged to detect rotary inputs via the rotatable ring, and touch inputs via the frontal plate, wherein the sensor layer extends beneath the support collar and forms a rotary input detector field that is responsive to rotary movements of the rotatable ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.