HOUSEHOLD DEVICE HAVING AN INPUT MEANS LOCKING DEVICE

• US 20170284734A1
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Published: 10/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: ARENS, THOMAS, HAUZENEDER, CHRISTOPH
• Granted Patent: US 10,520,248 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/2021 Arrangement or mounting of control or safety systems
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/083 on tops, hot plates
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/028 Details
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2400/361 Interactive visual displays
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2600/02 Timing
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2700/02 Sensors detecting door opening
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 29/00 Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 29/006 Safety devices

Abstract

A household device, in particular a refrigeration device, includes an electronic control device configured to control at least one function of the household device, an input device connected to the control device, having at least one input and being configured to supply an assigned control signal to the control device, based on a manual actuation of the at least one input. An input locking device, in its locked state, is configured to prevent controlling of the function of the household device, despite the at least one input being actuated, and in its unlocked state, is configured to permit controlling of the function of the household device when the at least one input is actuated. The input locking device is configured and/or constructed for shifting the input locking device into the locked state, after the at least one input has not been actuated over a predefined time period.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A household device, comprising:

an electronic control device configured to control at least one function of the household device;

an input device connected to said electronic control device, said input device including at least one input and said input device being configured, based on a manual actuation of said at least one input, to supply an assigned control signal to said electronic control device; and

an input locking device, in a locked state, being configured to prevent controlling of the function of the household device despite said at least one input being actuated, and in an unlocked state, being configured to permit controlling of the function of the household device when said at least one input is being actuated;

said input locking device being at least one of configured or constructed to place said input locking device into said locked state in an absence of an actuation of said at least one input over a predetermined period of time.

12. The household device according to claim 11, wherein said input device has an additional input being manually actuable and being at least one of configured or constructed, when actuated, to place said input locking device into said unlocked state.

13. The household device according to claim 12, wherein said additional input is an unlocking device.

14. The household device according to claim 12, wherein said manually actuable additional input is at least one of configured or constructed to only put said input locking device into said unlocked state after an ongoing actuation beyond a minimum period of time.

15. The household device according to claim 13, wherein said manually actuable unlocking device is at least one of configured or constructed to only put said input locking device into said unlocked state after an ongoing actuation beyond a minimum period of time.

16. The household device according to claim 14, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to be actuated manually to output at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of a first type during an ongoing actuation of said manually actuable additional input.

17. The household device according to claim 15, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to be actuated manually to output at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of a first type during an ongoing actuation of said manually actuable unlocking device.

18. The household device according to claim 16, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to output at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of a second type differing from said at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of the first type after an expiration of a minimum period of time having an ongoing actuation of said manually actuable additional input.

19. The household device according to claim 17, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to output at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of a second type differing from said at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of the first type after an expiration of a minimum period of time having an ongoing actuation of said manually actuable unlocking device.

20. The household device according to claim 12, wherein said manually actuable additional input is at least one of configured or constructed to control a function differing from an unlocking function in said unlocked state of said input locking device.

21. The household device according to claim 13, wherein said manually actuable unlocking device is at least one of configured or constructed to control a function differing from an unlocking function in said unlocked state of said input locking device.

22. The household device according to claim 18, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to output at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of a third type when said at least one input is actuated in said locked state of said input locking device.

23. The household device according to claim 19, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to output at least one of an acoustic or optical signal of a third type when said at least one input is actuated in said locked state of said input locking device.

24. The household device according to claim 11, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to output a signal indicative of said manually actuable additional input when said at least one input is actuated in said locked state of said input locking device.

25. The household device according to claim 24, wherein said signal is at least one of an acoustic or optical signal.

26. The household device according to claim 11, wherein said control device is at least one of configured or constructed to output a signal indicative of said manually actuable unlocking device when said at least one input is actuated in said locked state of said input locking device.

27. The household device according to claim 26, wherein said signal is at least one of an acoustic or optical signal.

28. The household device according to claim 11, wherein said predetermined period of time is between 10 seconds and 50 seconds.

29. The household device according to claim 11, wherein said predetermined period of time is a period of 30 seconds.

30. The household device according to claim 11, wherein said input device has at least one touch input.

31. The household device according to claim 11, wherein said input device has a touch screen and at least one touch input associated with said touch screen.