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US 8,783,801 B2Granted
Household appliance
AssigneeArcelik Anonim Sirketi
InventorsErgin Kaplan, Levent Orundu
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Abstract
A household appliance (1) that includes a cabinet (17), a door (2) mounted on the cabinet (17) and allowing access into the cabinet (17), a glass panel (4) having an inner surface (5) and a decorative outer surface (6), mounted on the door (2), and a control panel (3), enabling the user to change various parameters, adjust and/or monitor various functions of the household appliance (1).
Claims7
A household appliance (1) comprising:
- a cabinet (17), a door (2) mounted on the cabinet (17) and allowing access into the cabinet (17), a glass panel (4) mounted on the door (2) and having an inner surface (5) and a decorative outer surface (6), a frame (7) adhered on the inner surface (5) of the glass panel (4) and a control panel mounted to a box shaped cover (8) and secured to the frame (7) so the control panel (3) is kept between the box shaped cover (8) and the inner surface (5) of the glass panel (4) wherein the control panel enables various parameters to be changed and adjust and/or monitor various functions of the household appliance;
- wherein a plurality of locking elements (9) are disposed oppositely on the frame (7) and the cover (8) for mounting the frame (7) and the cover (8) unto each other;
- wherein the plurality of locking elements (9) comprising clip shaped protuberances (10) arranged on the frame (7) with spaces therebetween and recesses (11) formed on a side wall of the cover (8) with spaces therebetween to coincide with the protuberances (10);
- further comprising a sliding surface (12) on the side wall, under each recess (11), the respective protuberance is slid on the sliding surface and seated in the recess;
- and further comprising two pins (13) situated on two opposite sides of the cover (8) for pivotably securing the cover (8) on the frame (7) from one side and two pin sockets (14) on two opposite sides of the frame (7), wherein the two pins (13) are seated in the pin sockets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.