CONTROL AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE AND APPLIANCE WITH SUCH DEVICE Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC D06F39/00 

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a control and display device for a household appliance with control means for setting a parameter of process of operation of the household appliance, with a light guide part for light passing, with a plurality of functional symbols, each of which represents one of the selectable parameter values, and with a lighting device for illuminating the functional symbols, by which the visual selection of the functional symbol is possible, which corresponds to the selected value, compared with other functional symbols, at that the control means are formed as capacitive control means, sensitive to the touch and have a sensor surface of exposure, located in alignment with the functional symbols such that in touching the surface of exposure in its area of overlapping with one of the functional symbols the parameter value is selected, corresponding to this functional symbol.

EFFECT: improvement of the device.

16 cl, 5 dwg