SENSITIVE TO THE TOUCH, ILLUMINATED CONTROL PANEL, METHOD OF ITS OPERATION AND HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE CONTAINING SUCH CONTROL PANEL Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC G06F3/44 H03K17/96 D06F39/00 

FIELD: personal and household goods.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a touch and illuminated control panel of a household appliance. Touch and illuminated panel (1) of the household appliance control includes substrate (2), plurality of sensor elements (6, 7, 11, 12) on surface (21) of control panel (1), sensing layer (3) with plurality of sensing elements (14). Each sensing element (14) is associated with a sensor element (6, 7, 11, 12), lighting device (4) for illuminating at least a part of the sensor elements (6, 7, 11, 12), and control unit (5). Sensor elements having at least two O_m buttons (6, 7) and at least two G_n groups (8, 9) of B_xⁿ buttons (11, 12), where each of the coefficients m, n, x≥1. At least one G_n group (8, 9) of B_xⁿ buttons (11, 12) of the lower level is assigned to the switching relation of each of the upper-level O_m buttons (6, 7) in such a way that when touching a certain O_m button (6, 7) of the upper level, the B_xⁿ (11, 12) buttons of the lower level, which are related to the G_n group (8, 9), are activated.

EFFECT: technical result is to provide a simplified choice from a variety of input options on the control panel of a household appliance.

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