Abstract: A dishwasher includes a tub having a door that provides access to the tub. The door has a handle which extends a top surface of the door beyond a front surface of the door. A touchscreen panel is mounted to the top surface of a door to provide a user interface. The user interface includes a carrousel of icons via which a user may select a wash cycle. The user interface further includes a programmed delay interface via which a user may specify a desired start time and/or stop time for the wash cycle. The user interface may further provide the user with usage guidance to aid the user in the usage of the dishwasher.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 2008
Date of Patent:
August 30, 2011
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation
Inventors:
Douglas B. Beaudet, Christopher G. Koch, Sandra C. Steward, Daniel Szecket, Jonathan West
Abstract: A system that facilitates and implements energy savings decisions by a home owner. The system will provide a mechanism to reduce the peak level of energy demand. A controller in logical communication with energy consuming appliances responds to request for energy from energy consuming appliances and devices by permitting or curtailing energy supply to the appliances or devices based on evaluation of a plurality of logical considerations. The controller may be operated to provide energy to fewer than all of the energy requesting appliances to reduce the energy demand on an energy supply source, including the instantaneous peak demand.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 13, 2003
Date of Patent:
July 14, 2009
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation
Inventors:
Gale Richard Horst, Jiannong Zhang, Andriy Dmytrovych Syvokozov