EP2748368A2 - Appareil électroménager équipé d'un dispositif de commande et d'affichage tactile - Google Patents

Appareil électroménager équipé d'un dispositif de commande et d'affichage tactile

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EP2748368A2
EP2748368A2 EP12753091.3A EP12753091A EP2748368A2 EP 2748368 A2 EP2748368 A2 EP 2748368A2 EP 12753091 A EP12753091 A EP 12753091A EP 2748368 A2 EP2748368 A2 EP 2748368A2
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sensor electrode
display unit
household appliance
operating
display device
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Martin Bischoff
Thomas Lubert
Gino WYBRANIETZ
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BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
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BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F34/00—Details of control systems for washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
    • D06F34/28—Arrangements for program selection, e.g. control panels therefor; Arrangements for indicating program parameters, e.g. the selected program or its progress
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
    • F24C7/08—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F24C7/082—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination
    • F24C7/086—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination touch control
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L15/00—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware
    • A47L15/42—Details
    • A47L15/4293—Arrangements for programme selection, e.g. control panels; Indication of the selected programme, programme progress or other parameters of the programme, e.g. by using display panels
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F34/00—Details of control systems for washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
    • D06F34/28—Arrangements for program selection, e.g. control panels therefor; Arrangements for indicating program parameters, e.g. the selected program or its progress
    • D06F34/32—Arrangements for program selection, e.g. control panels therefor; Arrangements for indicating program parameters, e.g. the selected program or its progress characterised by graphical features, e.g. touchscreens

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  • the invention relates to a household appliance having a touch-sensitive operating and display device which has a display unit (display) for displaying operating information and a translucent or transparent carrier part, on which a capacitive sensor electrode is arranged as part of a contact capacitor.
  • the capacitive sensor electrode is arranged in overlap with the display unit on the one hand and in overlap with a touch-sensitive actuating surface or contact surface of the control and display device on the other hand.
  • the sensor electrode may be formed of a transparent and electrically conductive material.
  • the interest is directed in particular to an LED display with an associated capacitive operating device.
  • lighting elements - LEDs - are used by means of which function symbols or display symbols can be backlit.
  • This operating and display device includes a control panel, which is a one-piece plastic injection-molded component, which is made of ABS plastic.
  • the control panel has a circular transillumination region, in which the material thickness of the diaphragm material is reduced compared to the standard material thickness in such a way that the transillumination region is translucent.
  • This transillumination area forms an optical display device - on the surface of the transillumination area display symbols or function symbols are attached, which can be illuminated by means of a luminous element - such as a light emitting diode.
  • the light-emitting element is mounted on a printed circuit board.
  • a sensor electrode is attached to a rear side of the control panel, which is part of a capacitive switch or component of a contact capacitor.
  • the sensor electrode is electrically connected via a coupling element or contact part to the printed circuit board and thus to an evaluation unit.
  • an operating and display device for a household appliance is known.
  • the display is covered by a control panel or control plate, which is provided with transparent, metallic surfaces. These metallic surfaces form with underlying surfaces a capacitive switching element, which causes the command control.
  • the display is equipped, for example, with light elements in LED or LCD technology.
  • Such layers are predominantly transparent to the visible light.
  • the ITO layers find their limits when applied to three-dimensional surfaces. For this they are only partially suitable.
  • the carrier part, on which the sensor electrodes are arranged has a convex-approximately convex or concave-surface, as may be the case with control panels of household appliances, the ITO layers can no longer be used satisfactorily.
  • raw materials are relatively expensive compared to other electrically conductive materials.
  • the ITO layers are not suitable for use in capacitive control and display devices of household appliances if the sensor electrode is to be applied to three-dimensional surfaces. In the prior art, the provision of a flexible in their shape control and display device is thus not possible.
  • the flexibility of the known control and display devices finds their Limits due to the materials used.
  • Another limitation on the shape of the touch-sensitive actuating surface is caused by the plurality of capacitive sensing electrodes used in the prior art. Namely, in the prior art, a plurality of such sensor electrodes are used, which are spaced from each other behind the actuating surface - between the display unit on the one hand and the actuating surface on the other hand - are arranged. The user can only touch the actuating surface in those areas which are in overlap with the sensor electrodes. This also restricts the flexibility of the operating and display device with regard to their design or shaping.
  • a household appliance comprises a touch-sensitive operating and display device which has a display unit (display) which is designed to display operating information.
  • the operating and display device also has a translucent or transparent carrier part, on which a capacitive, electrically conductive sensor electrode is arranged as part of a contact capacitor (the second capacitor plate is formed by the user's finger).
  • the sensor electrode is arranged in overlap with the display unit on the one hand and in overlap with a touch-sensitive actuating surface of the operating and display device on the other hand.
  • the sensor electrode between the display unit on the one hand and the touch-sensitive actuating surface on the other hand is arranged.
  • the actuating surface can be touched or tapped to operate the household appliance by the user.
  • the sensor electrode consists of a - at least for visible light - transparent and electrically conductive lacquer and / or adhesive is formed, wherein the paint and / or the adhesive nanotubes made of carbon, the so-called “carbon nanotubes” (CNT).
  • CNT carbon nanotubes
  • the effect of the invention is thus achieved by the use of a special material for the sensor electrode, through the use of a transparent and electrically conductive adhesive and / or paint. It has been found that such materials are much better suited for application to three-dimensional surfaces than, for example, the so-called ITO layers, which consist of indium tin oxide.
  • the household appliance according to the invention thus has the advantage that the at least one sensor electrode can also be attached to the carrier part without much effort if the same carrier part has three-dimensional - approximately curved - surfaces. While the layers formed from indium-tin oxide are only of limited suitability for application to such surfaces, transparent and conductive coatings and / or adhesives can also be applied to concave or convex surfaces without much effort.
  • the operating and display device of the household appliance according to the invention can thus be arbitrarily shaped or configured - it can have a wide variety of geometric shapes, without their functionality must be limited due to the material of the sensor electrode. Compared to raw materials, transparent and electrically conductive lacquers or adhesives containing CNT are also relatively inexpensive, so that overall costs can be saved.
  • a household appliance which comprises a touch-sensitive operating and display device having a display unit for displaying operating information and a transparent carrier part, on which a capacitive sensor electrode as part of a contact capacitor is arranged, which is arranged in overlap with the display unit on the one hand and in overlap with a touch-sensitive actuating surface of the control and display device on the other.
  • the sensor electrode is formed of a transparent and electrically conductive material.
  • the - in particular single - sensor electrode extends over an at least predominantly, in particular entire, extension region of the display unit.
  • the operating and display device comprises voltage generating means, which for applying an electrical voltage are formed on the sensor electrode.
  • the operating and display device also has tap means, which are designed to pick up respectively one electrical current at at least two tap locations of the sensor electrode.
  • An evaluation device determines, depending on the tapped currents, a point of contact at which an operator touches the actuating surface above the sensor electrode.
  • the household appliance according to the second aspect of the invention has the advantage that a flexible or diverse design of the operating and display device is made possible with regard to their shaping. Namely, this shape is not limited by a plurality of sensor electrodes each used in the prior art for setting a parameter of the household appliance.
  • the operating and display device of the household appliance according to the invention is not limited to individual, predefined contact surfaces or buttons.
  • the continuously running sensor electrode which extends over the at least predominant extent of the display unit, thus also allows a diverse design of the entire operating and display device. This also has the advantage that within an operating sequence - for example when setting parameters of an operating process of the household appliance - actuating surfaces of different sizes can be provided, which is particularly user-friendly.
  • the operating and display device can thus adapt to the respective given operating options or to the respectively available operating options.
  • the continuous design of the sensor electrode and the inventive possibility of detecting the actuating point also ensure that a control or operation of the household appliance by means of gestures or finger movements is made possible on the actuating surface.
  • a variety of different functions of the home appliance can be triggered in a user friendly manner.
  • a household appliance is understood to be a device which is used for household management.
  • the household appliance is thus a device which is designed for the treatment of household objects, such as laundry, crockery, food and the like. It may be a large household appliance, such as a washing machine, a tumble dryer, a dishwasher, a cooking appliance, an extractor hood, a refrigerator, a fridge-freezer or an air conditioner. But it can also be a small household appliance, such as a coffee machine or a food processor.
  • the sensor electrode is applied to the support member by, for example, a spray method or pad printing method or a screen printing method or a free-form surface geometry method or other suitable painting method.
  • the operating and display device has a plate-like, transparent and electrically non-conductive disc whose front side forms the touch-sensitive actuating surface, which can be touched or tapped by the user for operating the household appliance.
  • the disk thus constitutes a display window formed of a transparent material.
  • the disk can be inserted into a passage opening of a control panel of the household appliance; it can be welded into the control panel.
  • the disc is made of transparent plastic. Namely, such a material can Be formed a variety of ways, so that a three-dimensional configuration of the actuating surface is made possible.
  • the disc can also be formed from a - in particular colored - toned material.
  • a (color) tinted design of the disc is based on the finding that the transparent and electrically conductive paints and / or adhesives used do not necessarily have 100% transparency, but the transparency can be between 80% and 100%. If one would now use a completely translucent disc, the user would under certain circumstances also perceive the sensor electrode optically. In order to avoid this, the transparency of the pane can be adapted to the transparency of the conductive lacquers and / or adhesives.
  • the design of the disc of a color-toned material also ensures that an optionally attached to the back of this disc locking pressure on the operating side or on the side of the actuating surface is not visible.
  • the carrier part, on which the sensor electrode is arranged may be formed by the disk itself.
  • the sensor electrode may be arranged on a rear side of the pane opposite the front side.
  • the arrangement of the sensor electrode on the disc has the advantage that the use of a separate support member is unnecessary, and the disc quasi two different functions takes on, on the one hand the function of covering the control and display device and on the other hand, the function of supporting the sensor electrode. It can thus be saved components.
  • the disk may be disposed on the display unit in such a manner that the sensor electrode rests on the back side of the disk on the one hand and on a front side of the display unit facing the disk on the other hand.
  • the at least one sensor electrode bridges the distance between the display unit on the one hand and the disk on the other hand or fills this distance.
  • the carrier part is formed as a transparent and flexible film, so that the sensor electrode is attached to the film.
  • the film may be arranged on the display unit such that the film rests on the one hand on a rear side of the pane and on the other hand on the display unit.
  • the sensor electrode can be arranged here either on a rear side of the film facing the display unit or else on a front side of the film facing the window.
  • the film may be formed of plastic. It can be a single or multi-layered film. It can be glued to the pane or injected directly back using injection molding or injection molding processes (IML, IMD technology).
  • IML injection molding or injection molding processes
  • the printed, transparent film eliminates the direct printing of the disc. This embodiment also has the advantage that the disc itself does not have to be geometrically adapted due to a screen printing on the back. This allows an even more flexible shaping of the operating and display device.
  • the tapping means can be designed such that in each case an electric current is tapped at four different tapping points of the sensor electrode. Then, the evaluation device, depending on the tapped currents determine the point of contact at which the operator touches the actuating surface. It proves to be particularly advantageous if the respective currents are tapped at all four corners of the rectangular sensor electrode. In this way, it is possible to determine the point of contact with particularly great accuracy. In fact, a total of two coordinates of the contact point can be determined from the currents tapped at four different tapping points, on the one hand in the longitudinal direction and on the other hand in the transverse direction of the actuating surface.
  • the determination of the point of contact is thus not limited to a single direction, so that a variety of possible functions of the household appliance can be triggered by touching the actuating surface.
  • the tapping points of the sensor electrode can each be electrically coupled to a capacitor, so that the respective electrical current is detected as a charge displacement on the capacitor caused by contact with the actuating surface.
  • the currents can be measured reliably and effectively; namely, the initially charged capacitors are in contact with the actuating surface at least partially discharged, so that electric current flows through the capacitors.
  • These electrical currents can be detected separately from each other and used to determine the point of contact.
  • the flow of current through the capacitors is based on the fact that when touching the actuating surface, a contact capacitor is formed which on the one hand has the sensor electrode and on the other hand the finger of the operator, which carries the electrical potential of the earth (ground). By this contact capacitor then also flows electric current, so that a charge shift takes place in the capacitors at the Abgriffsstellen the sensor electrode.
  • arbitrary methods can be used as detection method for detecting and evaluating the currents or changing the respective capacitances of the capacitors, namely in particular the following methods: charge transfer or successive approximation or sigma-delta or mutual capacitance measurement.
  • the evaluation device can determine the point of contact as a function of a ratio of the tapped currents. This is particularly easy to implement, so that the point of contact can be determined with little technical effort.
  • the voltage supply means are preferably designed for applying in each case an electrical voltage to at least two different locations of the sensor electrode. Preferably, in each case an electrical voltage is applied to four different locations of the sensor electrode. It proves to be particularly advantageous if in each case an electrical voltage is applied to all four corners of the rectangular sensor electrode. This embodiment also ensures that the contact point can be determined with great accuracy both in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction of the sensor electrode or two coordinates of the contact point can be calculated. By applying the electrical voltages at all four corners of the sensor electrode, the capacitors connected to the corners are charged, so that a charge displacement when touching the actuating surface is made possible.
  • the electrical voltages can be direct voltages or alternating voltages - such as square-wave voltages. If alternating voltages are applied to the sensor electrode, these alternating voltages can each have a different frequency.
  • the electrical voltages which are applied to at least two locations of the sensor electrode thus differ in their frequencies from each other. This makes it possible to determine the point of contact in a very specific manner:
  • the tapped currents can be filtered in this embodiment so that different signal components, each having different frequencies, are obtained and analyzed.
  • the amplitudes of these different signal components can then be put into proportion, and depending on this ratio, the point of contact can be determined. In this way, a particularly precise determination of the contact point is ensured.
  • the display unit can be any display, such as a TFT display or an LCD display.
  • the display unit is an LED display and has a light guide part or a light shaft, which is designed for guiding light, and at which at least one function symbol as operating information in overlap with the sensor electrode - behind the sensor electrode - is arranged.
  • the display unit can also have a lighting device-in particular with at least one light-emitting diode-which serves for backlighting or for optical highlighting of the function symbol when the operator touches the touch-sensitive actuating surface in an overlapping region with the function symbol.
  • the operating and display device thus represents a touch-sensitive LED display, in which a function of the household appliance selected by tapping the function character and the selection or tapping the function character is signaled by backlighting of this sign.
  • the operating of the operating and display device thus takes place by touching the actuating surface, in an overlapping region with the sensor electrode and the function symbol. There must be no mechanical movement of a control knob performed.
  • a thin foil with the at least one function symbol can be attached to the light guide part.
  • This can be a writing film or a light mask.
  • the at least one function character can thus be configured in various ways, regardless of the configuration of the light guide part. For different country variants or device variants thus only need to be used in each case different writing films, while the other components - in particular the light guide part itself - can be maintained.
  • a plurality of function signs in overlap with the common sensor electrode - namely behind the sensor electrode - may be arranged.
  • the same function symbol can be visually highlighted by means of the lighting device, namely in each case in relation to other function symbols.
  • This may, for example, be such that by touching the actuating surface in an overlapping region with one of the function symbols, a value of a parameter of the household appliance assigned to this function symbol is selected. In this way, a wide variety of values of the parameter can be selected or even a multiplicity of parameters of the household appliance can be set by means of the touch-sensitive actuating surface and by means of the common, single sensor electrode.
  • the sensor electrode may be associated with a plurality of separately illuminable function symbols, which are arranged on the light guide part in overlap with the common sensor electrode - namely behind the sensor electrode - and which each symbolize a value of the parameter of the household appliance.
  • the selection of a parameter value can thus be signaled in each case with a function symbol.
  • the selection of a parameter value is effected by tapping one of the function characters or the actuating surface in an overlap region with this function symbol. Which of the function signs was tapped is determined by means of the evaluation device on the basis of the tapped currents - as stated above. For this purpose, the point of contact is determined at which the operator touches the actuating surface.
  • the function symbols each symbolize a different value of a parameter of the household appliance.
  • a number or a number - such as temperature value or speed value - under a value of the parameter present terms or letter sequences are understood, namely, for example, different operating programs of the household appliance and / or various additional functions.
  • a parameter may, for example, also be an operating program of the household appliance - the parameter value here being understood to be the designation of the specific operating program.
  • an additional function of the household appliance can be set as a parameter, in a washing machine about "easy to iron" or "prewash".
  • the function characters may generally include word characters and / or numbers and / or icons, and / or combination symbols, such as word-image characters.
  • the operating and display device can be designed to set at least one of the following parameters of an operating process of the household appliance: It can be designed to set an operating temperature as a parameter.
  • the display unit can have a multiplicity of illuminable function symbols which each symbolize a selectable value of the operating temperature. This embodiment proves particularly in a household appliance for the care of laundry - such as a washing machine or a tumble dryer - or in a dishwasher or in a household appliance for food preparation - such as an oven and / or a hob - particularly advantageous.
  • the operator can tap the desired temperature value on the touch-sensitive actuating surface to set this temperature value.
  • the operating and display device for adjusting a movement speed of a component of the household appliance - such as a speed of a laundry drum - be formed.
  • the display unit may comprise a plurality of illuminable function symbols, each one selectable Symbolize the value of the movement speed. This embodiment is particularly useful in such home appliances that have a movable component, such as a laundry drum or the like.
  • the operating and display device can also be designed to define an operating program as a parameter.
  • the display unit may have a plurality of illuminable function symbols, each symbolizing a different operating program. This applies accordingly for additional functions of the household appliance.
  • each of the function characters can each identify a different additional function of the household appliance.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic representation of an operating and display device of a household appliance according to a first embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of an operating and display device of a household appliance according to a second embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic schematic representation, based on which the manner of determining a point of contact is explained in more detail.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of an operating and display device 1 of a household appliance not shown in the figures - namely in the embodiment a washing machine - shown.
  • the operating and display device 1 is a touch-sensitive LED display, which has a plurality of function symbols that can be backlit.
  • the operating and display device 1 includes the following components: a light guide part 2 with attached function symbol, as well as a disc. 3
  • the light guide part 2 is a light well, which is designed to conduct light.
  • a writing film 5 is arranged, which is for example a light mask.
  • the writing film 5 has a multiplicity of function characters, in the exemplary embodiment three columns of function characters, namely a first column of function characters 6, a second column of function characters 7, as well as a third column of function characters 8.
  • the first column of function symbols 6 symbolize each a different value for an operating temperature of the washing machine.
  • the function symbols 6 thus represent parameter values for the parameter "operating temperature.”
  • the second column of function symbols 7 each symbolize a different value for a rotational speed of the laundry drum for a spin operation of the washing machine
  • the function symbols 7 thus represent parameter values for the parameter "rotational speed”.
  • the third column of function character 8 includes a plurality of different designations for additional functions of the washing machine. These are: “Fast”, “Easy Iron”, “Water Plus”, “Rinse Plus”, “Intensive” and "Prewash".
  • the function symbols 6, 7, 8 can be individually backlit individually, namely by means of a lighting device (not shown).
  • This lighting device may include a plurality of light-emitting diodes, which are arranged on a rear side of the optical waveguide part 2, for example on a circuit board.
  • Each function character 6, 7, 8 can be assigned in each case a light-emitting diode.
  • the disc 3 is a transparent or translucent disc, which may be formed, for example, of transparent plastic. It can be colored toned.
  • the disc 3 is a plate-like, flat and inherently rigid element.
  • a front side 9 of the disc 3 simultaneously forms a touch-sensitive actuating surface 10, which can be touched by the user to select a parameter value. By touching the actuating surface 10, the user can the above Set the parameters of the washing machine or select the mentioned parameter values. This is done by simply tapping the function symbols 6, 7, 8.
  • the entire back 12 of the disc 3 covering, electrically conductive and transparent sensor electrode 13 is mounted as part of a contact capacitor.
  • the sensor electrode 13 thus extends over the entire surface of the rear side 12 and thus also over the entire extension region of the display unit 11.
  • the sensor electrode 13 is in the assembled state on the one hand on the back of the disc 3 and on the other hand on the front side 4 of the light guide part 2 on.
  • the sensor electrode 13 thus bridges the distance between the disc 3 on the one hand and the light guide part 2 on the other.
  • the sensor electrode 13 is thus arranged in overlap with the function symbols 6, 7, 8.
  • the sensor electrode 13 is above the function character 6, 7, 8, so that by touching the actuating surface 10 in an overlap region with one of the function characters 6, 7, 8 of this function character 6, 7, 8 assigned parameter value can be selected, which, for example is signaled by backlighting this selected function character 6, 7, 8.
  • an evaluation device not shown in Fig. 1 is provided.
  • a display area 15 with four seven-segment displays indicating a time period until completion of a washing process serve. By means of the display area 15 so the remaining time of the washing process is displayed.
  • the disc 3 made of transparent plastic is welded into a control panel of the washing machine.
  • the application of the sensor electrode 13 on the disc 3 finds its limits in the prior art, when the disc 3 and its rear side 12 is designed three-dimensionally or when the disc 3 is concave or convex.
  • a balance must be made between the flexibility and configuration of the operating and display device 1 on the one hand and the technical possibility of applying the sensor electrode 13 on the other.
  • so-called ITO layers indium tin oxide
  • This material can not be applied to any surface, so that a new solution had to be found in order to apply the sensor electrode 13 on any desired shaped disks 3 can.
  • the sensor electrode 13 is formed of a transparent and electrically conductive lacquer and / or a transparent and conductive adhesive.
  • a transparent and electrically conductive lacquer and / or a transparent and conductive adhesive can be applied in a particularly simple manner to three-dimensional surfaces-such as curved or curved windows 3-without having to accept a restriction with regard to the shaping of the operating and display device 1.
  • the operating and display device 1 or the disc 3 can be arbitrarily shaped or configured;
  • an effective and reliable application of the sensor electrode 13 to the disc 3 is also possible.
  • the selected materials of the sensor electrodes include carbon nanotubes (CNTs), such materials being transparent and conductive depending on the distribution and / or crosslinking of the nanoscale particles in the material, thereby forming elongated carbon structures under nanotubes understood, the transverse to their longitudinal direction have a size in the range of a few nanometers, in particular 1 to 2 nm.
  • CNTs carbon nanotubes
  • the increase in flexibility of the design of the control and display device 1 is also achieved in that different than in State of the art - there are a plurality of smaller, juxtaposed sensor electrodes are used - a single, large sensor electrode 13 is used, which extends substantially over the entire surface of the display unit 1 1. Unlike in the prior art, with such a sensor electrode 13, the danger no longer exists that a short circuit between two adjacent sensor electrodes - such as due to a complicated shape of the disc 3 - arises. In the present case, the entire rear side 12 can simply be provided with an electrically conductive layer (sensor electrode 13) without the shape of the disk 3 being restricted due to a multiplicity of sensor electrodes.
  • FIG. 2 shows an operating and display device 1 'of a washing machine according to a second embodiment of the invention.
  • the operating and display device 1 ' essentially corresponds to the operating and display device 1 according to FIG. 1, so that only the differences between them are explained in more detail below:
  • the sensor electrode 13 ' is attached to a flexible film 16 made of plastic, which may be a single-layer or multi-layer film.
  • the film 16 is - as the disc 3 '- formed of a transparent material.
  • the sensor electrode 13 ' may, for example, extend over the entire surface of the film 16.
  • the sensor electrode 13 ' is preferably attached to a rear side of the film 16, which faces the light guide part 2'.
  • the sensor electrode 13 ' can be electrically coupled with said evaluation device without much effort.
  • the film 16 is on the one hand on the back 12 'of the disc 3' and on the other hand on the front side 4 'of the light guide part 2' on.
  • the disc 3 ' is thus free of electrically conductive elements.
  • the sensor electrode 13 ' is formed from an electrically conductive and transparent lacquer and / or adhesive, which preferably contain CNT.
  • the evaluation device can determine a contact point at which the operator touches the actuating surface 10, 10 'in order to select a parameter value from the mentioned parameter values.
  • a schematic diagram for explaining the determination of the contact point is shown in FIG. 3. Shown is the sensor electrode 13, 13 ', which has a certain ohmic resistance, as indicated by resistor symbols 17. If the actuating surface 10, 10 'touched by the operator, so a contact capacitor 18 is formed, which is formed on the one hand by the sensor electrode 13, 13' and on the other hand by a finger 19 of the operator.
  • the rectangular sensor electrode 13, 13 ' has four corners 20, 21, 22, 23. Each corner 20 to 23 is electrically coupled to an evaluation device 24, which is electrically connected to ground 25 (earth). The operator also carries the electrical potential of the earth.
  • the evaluation device also includes voltage generating means and tap means 26 which are designed to apply an electrical voltage to the sensor electrode 13, 13 'and to pick up electrical currents at the sensor electrode 13, 13'. Namely, at each corner 20 to 23, an electric voltage V is applied with respect to the ground 25, respectively. These electrical voltages may be equal voltages or voltages, each with a different amplitude. The voltages V may be DC voltages or AC voltages. Each corner 20 to 23 is also connected to a capacitor 27, 28, 29, 30, respectively. On the other hand, the capacitors 27 to 30 may be connected to the ground 25.
  • the evaluation device 24 thus detects the electrical currents at the corners 20 to 23 of the sensor electrode 13, 13 '. Depending on these currents - for example depending from a ratio of these currents - the evaluation device 24 can determine the point of contact.
  • the actuating surface 10, 10 ' is not touched, no electric current flows across the sensor electrode 13, 13', and the capacitors 27 to 30 are charged. If now the actuating surface 10, 10 'touched, the contact capacitor 18 is formed. Currents flow from the capacitors 27 to 30 to the contact capacitor 18 and then to the ground 25, namely via the finger 19. These currents or the charge transfer in the capacitors 27 to 30 are now detected by the evaluation device 24, for example according to US Pat called charge transfer technique.
  • the evaluation device 24 - for example, based on a table or a formula - determine the point of contact. This can be defined for example by two coordinates, in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction of the sensor electrode 13, 13 '.
  • alternating voltages are applied to the corners 20 to 23, then it can also be provided that these voltages each have a different frequency.
  • the detected currents then have different signal components, each with different frequencies. These currents can then be subjected to frequency filtering, so that the amplitude of each signal component or frequency component is determined.
  • the contact point can then be determined as a function of a ratio of the amplitudes of different frequency components.

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L'invention concerne un appareil électroménager équipé d'un dispositif de commande et d'affichage tactile (1, 1') comprenant une unité d'affichage (11, 11') pour afficher des informations de commande et une partie de support transparente (3, 16) sur laquelle une électrode de détection capacitive (13, 13') est disposée en tant que partie d'un condensateur de contact (18) de manière chevauchante avec l'unité d'affichage (11, 11') et une surface de commande tactile (10, 10') du dispositif de commande et d'affichage (1, 1'), cette électrode de détection (13, 13') étant constituée d'un vernis et/ou adhésif transparent et électroconducteur renfermant des nanotubes de carbone. Selon un deuxième aspect de l'invention, l'électrode de détection (13, 13') s'étend sur une zone d'extension au moins majeure de l'unité d'affichage (11, 11'), le dispositif de commande et d'affichage (1, 1') comprenant des moyens de limitation de tension pour appliquer une tension électrique (V) à l'électrode de détection (13, 13'), des moyens de prélèvement pour prélever respectivement un courant électrique au niveau d'au moins deux points de prélèvement (20 bis 23) de l'électrode de détection 13, 13'), et un dispositif d'évaluation (24) qui détermine, en fonction des courants prélevés, un point de contact au niveau duquel un opérateur touche la surface d'actionnement (10, 10').
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