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US 2022/0065460 A1Published application
Domestic appliance having a proximity detector
AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsHans-Jürgen Bauer, Hoang Richter, Christoph Söllner
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Abstract
A household appliance includes a treatment chamber closable by a door for treatment of items to be treated by a plurality of treatment processes, and a proximity detector designed to identify a presence of a person approaching the household appliance. The household appliance is designed to carry out an action in dependence on a state of a treatment process in progress, when identifying an approach of the person.
Claims11
1-10. (canceled)
A household appliance, comprising:
- a treatment chamber closable by a door for treatment of items to be treated by a plurality of treatment processes;
- and
- a proximity detector designed to identify a presence of a person approaching the household appliance,
- wherein the household appliance is designed to carry out an action according to a state of a treatment process in progress, when identifying an approach of the person.
1 more element
A method for operating a household appliance, said method comprising:
- identifying with a proximity detector a presence of a person approaching the household appliance;
- and
- carrying out an action when identifying the person approaching the household appliance during a treatment process in progress for treatment of an item to be treated in a treatment chamber of the household appliance and when a predetermined state of the treatment process in progress is simultaneously present.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.