Touch control panel

• US 8,009,434 B2
• Filed: 07/29/2008
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Uni-Splender Corp.
• Original Assignee: Uni-Splender Corp.
• Inventors: Lin, Yu-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Jinhee J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wilson; Adrian S
• Application Number:
  US12/181,482
• Publication Number:
  US 20100027226A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,127 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.01, 361/748, 361/752, 361/810, 345/173, 992/79, 992/80, 992/85
• US Class Current: 361/752
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/52 Alarm-clock-controlled mechanisms for coffee- or tea-making apparatus ; Timers for coffee- or tea-making apparatus; Electronic control devices for coffee- or tea-making apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means

Abstract

A touch control panel for use with a coffeemaker is disclosed. In the touch control panel, a PC board unit provided with backlight plates and a printed panel are secured to an inner side of a front decorative cover, made of a transparent material, with threaded fasteners. Protrusions formed on the front decorative cover and on an upper front decorative cover are engaged with corresponding cavities on a back panel. A back panel cover is engaged in the back panel at a location adjacent to a rear side of the PC board unit. An upper decorative strip and a lower decorative strip are affixed to an outer side of the front decorative cover. The touch control panel is secured to a front side of an upper body and of a lower body of the coffeemaker to serve both decorative and functional purposes.

Claims

1. A touch control panel for being installed on a front side of a coffeemaker and used as an operation panel for function selection, characterized in:

a PC board unit and a printed panel being secured, with threaded fasteners, to an inner side of a front decorative cover made of a transparent material;

protrusions formed on the front decorative cover and on an upper front decorative cover being engaged with corresponding cavities on a back panel; and

a back panel cover being engaged in the back panel at a location adjacent to a rear side of the PC board unit;

wherein the touch control panel is secured to a front side of an upper body and of a lower body of the coffeemaker to serve both decorative and functional purposes.

2. The touch control panel of claim 1, wherein the front decorative cover has an outer side affixed with an upper decorative strip and a lower decorative strip.

3. The touch control panel of claim 1, wherein the back panel cover has a peripheral edge formed with a plurality of engaging portions for providing securer engagement.

4. The touch control panel of claim 1, wherein the PC board unit comprises a circuit board, a display window plate and a touch control keyboard.

5. The touch control panel of claim 4, wherein a backlight plate is provided on a display window of the display window plate and on each of touch control keys of the touch control keyboard.