Dishwasher with top mounted touchscreen
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsDOUGLAS B. BEAUDET, DARRYL C. BODINE, JOSHUA D. DICKMAN, MICHAEL C. LAH, ROBERT SPRINGER
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Abstract
A dishwasher includes a tub having a door that provides access to the tub. The door has a handle which extends a top surface of the door beyond a front surface of the door. A touchscreen panel is mounted to the top surface of a door to provide a user interface. The user interface includes a carrousel of icons via which a user may select a wash cycle. The user interface further includes a programmed delay interface via which a user may specify a desired start time and/or stop time for the wash cycle. The user interface may further provide the user with usage guidance to aid the user in the usage of the dishwasher.
Claims20
A dishwasher to be installed under a countertop, comprising
- a tub defining a washing chamber,
- at least one dishwasher rack positioned in the washing chamber of the tub,
- a door to permit access to the washing chamber, the door comprising a handle that defines a top surface of the door and that extends the top surface of the door beyond a front surface of the door, and
- a touchscreen panel positioned upon the top surface of the door such that a user interface presented by the touchscreen panel is viewable and accessible from the top surface of the door.
A dishwasher, comprising:
- a tub defining a washing chamber,
- a dishwasher rack positioned in the washing chamber of the tub,
- a door to permit access to the washing chamber, the door comprising a handle extending a top surface of the door beyond a front surface of the door,
- a touchscreen panel positioned upon the top surface of the door, the touchscreen comprising an input layer to generate one or more signals indicative a touched location of the touchscreen panel and a display layer to generate a user interface based upon one or more signals representative of the user interface, and
- a controller to receive the one or more signals indicative of the touched location, to generate the one or more signals representative of the user interface, and to control operation of the dishwasher based upon the one or more signals indicative of the touched location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.