Control panel of a laundry processing machine
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsDae Hee Kwon, Hyun Seok Kim, Bo Yeon Kim, Hye Yong Park, Seong Yeol Lee
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Abstract
A control panel of a laundry processing machine includes a control substrate having LEDs, a transparent window having transparent protrusions formed to be corresponded to the LEDs, and a display cover having a plurality of ribs which are protruded at a surface of the display cover and placed between the transparent protrusions, thereby one of lights emitted from the LEDs is directed to the corresponding transparent protrusions without being spread elsewhere.
Claims13
A control panel of a laundry processing machine comprising:
- a control substrate provided with a plurality of LEDs;
- a transparent window provided with a plurality of transparent protrusions formed to correspond to the LEDs;
- and
- a light spread preventing means placed between the transparent protrusions such that the light emitted from each of the plurality of the LEDs is directed to each LED's corresponding transparent protrusion,
- wherein the control panel further comprises a display cover in which the transparent protrusions are inserted,
- wherein the light spread preventing means is a plurality of ribs protruding at a surface of the display cover.
A control panel of a laundry processing machine comprising:
- a control substrate provided with a plurality of LEDs;
- a transparent window provided with a plurality of transparent protrusions formed to correspond to the LEDs;
- a display cover at which a plurality of light display holes are formed to correspond to each of the LEDs;
- and
- a light spread preventing means placed between the plurality of light display holes such that light emitted from a given LEDs is directed to that given LED's light display hole,
- wherein the light spread preventing means is a plurality of ribs protruding toward the transparent window on a back side of the display cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.