Electrical appliance and method for controlling the operation of an electrical appliance
AssigneeDiehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG
InventorMATHIAS GLASMACHER
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Abstract
An electrical appliance has at least one assembly, an operating apparatus for selecting a program sequence from at least one predefined program sequence by a user of the electrical appliance, and a control apparatus for actuating the at least one assembly in accordance with a selected program sequence. A communications interface via which the control apparatus can communicate with an intelligent energy supply grid, is provided. The control apparatus is configured to modify the selected program sequence depending on energy supply information obtained from the intelligent energy supply grid during execution of the selected program sequence within predetermined limits and to actuate the assembly in accordance with a modified program sequence.
Claims10
An electrical appliance, comprising:
- at least one assembly;
- an operating apparatus for selecting a program sequence from at least one predefined program sequence by a user of the electrical appliance;
- a control apparatus for actuating said at least one assembly in accordance with a selected program sequence;
- a communications interface via which said control apparatus can communicate with an intelligent energy supply grid;
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- the control apparatus being configured to modify the selected program sequence depending on energy supply information obtained from the intelligent energy supply grid via said communications interface during execution of the selected program sequence within predetermined limits and to actuate said at least one assembly in accordance with a modified program sequence.
An intelligent energy supply grid, comprising:
- at least one energy supply source;
- an energy management system:
- and
- at least one electrical appliance, said at least one electrical appliance, containing:
- at least one assembly;
- an operating apparatus for selecting a program sequence from at least one predefined program sequence by a user of said electrical appliance;
- a control apparatus for actuating said at least one assembly in accordance with a selected program sequence;
- a communications interface via which said control apparatus can communicate with other components of the intelligent energy supply grid;
- and
- said control apparatus being configured to modify the selected program sequence depending on energy supply information obtained from the intelligent energy supply grid via said communications interface during execution of the selected program sequence within predetermined limits and to actuate said at least one assembly in accordance with a modified program sequence.
A method for controlling an operation of an electrical appliance having at least one assembly, which comprises the steps of:
- selecting a program sequence from at least one predefined program sequence by a user of the electrical appliance;
- actuating the at least one assembly in accordance with a selected program sequence;
- receiving energy supply information from an intelligent energy supply grid;
- modifying the selected program sequence in dependence on received energy supply information during an execution of the selected program sequence within predetermined limits;
- and
- actuating the at least one assembly in accordance with a modified program sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.