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Apparatus for controlling consumption by a household appliance

  • US 6,169,964 B1
  • Filed: 11/25/1997
  • Issued: 01/02/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Apparatus for controlling consumption of energy and/or resources of a household appliance, comprisingan electronic microcontroller (LC), non-volatile memory means (M) operatively connected to the microcontroller (LC), the household appliance being connected during use to at least one source of an external resource (water, electric energy, gas, etc.), the external resource being necessary to the apparatus for carrying out an operating cycle, the household appliance also comprising setting means for the manual selection of one or more operating parameters, and signaling means (1), characterized in that within the memory means (M) information are coded which the control system (LC), as a function of at least a selection operated through the setting means, uses to calculate the consumption of the external resource required by the household appliance to execute an operating cycle, the signaling means (1) comprising means for displaying the level of consumption of the external resource.

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