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US 9,453,298 B2Granted
Household appliance
AssigneeArcelik Anonim Sirketi
InventorsSefa Hazir, Ahmet Ihsan Yuce
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a household appliance (1) that can be changed to a mode other than the operating or stand-by modes when desired, but eliminating the possibility of changing to this mode unintentionally by the user.
Claims17
A household appliance comprising:
- a control unit having a special mode other than operating and stand-by modes for controlling the household appliance;
- and
- a switch that is activated by a magnet (M) which is separate from the household appliance and wherein the special mode of the control unit is prevented until the switch is activated by the magnet.
A household appliance and a magnet that is separate from the household appliance, the household appliance comprising:
- a control unit for controlling the employment of operating programs selected automatically or by the user and a switch which is separate from the control unit and whose location is selected from the group consisting of a rear side of the household appliance and a bottom of the household appliance;
- and
- wherein the switch is activated by the magnet in order to change to a special mode other that an operating mode or stand-by mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.