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US 9,955,844 B2Granted
Methods of operating dishwasher with illuminable user interface
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsJoel Fletty, Eric A. Hill
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Abstract
A method of operating a dish treating appliance includes a user interface disposed along the top edge of a door for selectively opening and closing access to a treating chamber. The user interface can be illuminated and operating the user interface can include operating a user input mode when the door is open and a status mode when the door is closed.
Claims11
A method of operating a dish treating appliance, the method comprising:
- operating an illuminable user interface, which is located along a top edge of a closure movable between an opened and closed condition, in a user input mode when the door closure is open including selectively illuminating at least one portion of the illuminable user interface;
- and
- operating the illuminable user interface in a status mode when the closure is closed controlling the illumination of the illuminable user interface to provide a predetermined animation for a corresponding status condition wherein the predetermined animation comprises at least one of sweeping to indicate progress, random to indicate a rinse phase, or pulsing to indicate completion.
A method of operating a dish treating appliance, the method comprising:
- operating an illuminable user interface, which is located along a top edge of a closure movable between an opened and closed condition, in a user input mode when the closure is open including selectively illuminating at least one portion of the illuminable user interface;
- and
- operating the illuminable user interface in a status mode when the closure is closed controlling the illumination of the illuminable user interface to provide a predetermined animation for a corresponding status condition;
- wherein at least one of:
- a speed of the illumination is increased to indicate an end of a phase of a cycle or a color of the illumination is changed to indicate a change in a phase of a cycle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.