Cooling appliance and operation method thereof
AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsTao Gu, Jiangbo Keong Sun, Jun Xia, Kai Xu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a cooling appliance and an operating method thereof. The cooling appliance comprises multiple thermally insulated storage chambers (2, 3, 4), a cooling system (5) for cooling these storage chambers (2, 3, 4), and an indication unit (20). According to the proposal of the present invention, the indication unit (20) is set to be capable of displaying information about which of the storage chambers (2, 3, 4) is/are being cooled by the cooling system (5).
Claims18
A cooling appliance, comprising:
- a plurality of thermally insulated storage chambers;
- a cooling system for cooling the storage chambers, the cooling system operating in a first mode when it actively cools one or more of the chambers and a second mode when it does not actively cool one or more of the chambers;
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- an indication unit configured to show information regarding each of the storage chambers that is actively cooled by the cooling system when operating in the first mode;
- wherein the indication unit comprises multiple indication portions respectively corresponding to one or more storage chambers and illumination elements for illuminating the corresponding indication portions;
- wherein only when one or more of the storage chambers is being actively cooled when the cooling system operates in the first mode, the luminance of the illumination element corresponding to each actively cooled storage chamber periodically and gradually changes between a lower limit value and an upper limit value.
An operation method of a cooling appliance, wherein the cooling appliance comprises multiple storage chambers and a cooling system for cooling the storage chambers, the method comprising:
- determining which of the storage chambers is/are currently actively cooled by the cooling system;
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- indicating, by an indication unit which comprises multiple illumination elements, each of the illumination elements corresponding to at least one storage chamber, information of each of the storage chambers being actively cooled by the cooling system by periodically and gradually changing luminance of the illumination element corresponding to the storage chamber between a lower limit value and an upper limit value.
A cooling appliance, comprising:
- at least one thermally insulated storage chamber;
- a cooling system for cooling the at least one storage chamber and being operable in a first mode in which the storage chamber is actively cooled and a second mode in which the storage chamber is not actively cooled;
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- an indication unit configured to show information as to whether the storage chamber is being actively cooled by the cooling system when operating in the first mode;
- wherein the indication unit comprises an indication portion corresponding to the at least one storage chamber and an illumination element for illuminating the indication portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.