Household appliance and method of disinfecting a functional sub-unit of a household appliance and/or reducing odours
AssigneeElectrolux Home Products, Inc.
InventorsFabienne Reinhard-Herrscher, Kersten Kaiser
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Abstract
The present application in particular is directed to a household appliance adapted for treating objects in a primary treatment process. For providing easy disinfection of process media and functional subunits of the household appliance, it is proposed that the household appliance comprises at least one plasma generator adapted to impinge in a secondary treatment process a disinfecting and/or odour reducing plasma at at least one functional subunit of the appliance.
Claims11
Household appliance (1) adapted for treating objects in a primary treatment process, comprising at least one plasma generator (7, 8) adapted to impinge in a secondary treatment process a disinfecting and/or odour reducing plasma at at least one functional subunit (2, 3, 4, 5) of the appliance.
Household appliance (1) according to clam 1, wherein the primary process involves heating foodstuff, in particular cooking or baking, cooling foodstuff, or drying clothing or dishes.
Method of disinfecting at least a functional subunit (2, 3, 4, 5) of a household appliance (1) which is adapted for treating objects in a primary treatment process, wherein in a secondary treatment process a disinfecting plasma generated by at least one plasma generator (7, 8) is impinged at at least one functional subunit (2, 3, 4, 5).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.