CN210157167U

CN210157167U - Display assembly for household appliance and household appliance

Info

Publication number: CN210157167U
Application number: CN201920676527.4U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 武晓丽; 张文绮; 王俏俏
Original assignee: Qingdao Haier Co Ltd; Qingdao Haigao Design and Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Co Ltd; Qingdao Haigao Design and Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-05-13
Filing date: 2019-05-13
Publication date: 2020-03-17
Anticipated expiration: 2029-05-13

Abstract

The utility model discloses a display module and domestic appliance for domestic appliance, this display module includes display module and control module, and display module includes: a membrane having at least one pattern region formed thereon; at least one light-emitting area corresponding to each pattern area, and each light-emitting area is connected with the control module and used for illuminating each pattern area; at least one touch key corresponding to each pattern area and connected with the control module; by touching each touch key, the control module controls each light-emitting area to illuminate or not illuminate each pattern area. The utility model discloses a display module is used for solving the unclear and not aesthetic problem of icon or characters semanteme on the current display screen.

Description

Display assembly for household appliance and household appliance

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of relate to the domestic appliance shows, concretely relates to display module and have this display module's domestic appliance for domestic appliance.

Background

The control panel of the existing household appliance (such as a refrigerator, a washing machine, an oven, an ice maker and the like) is provided with keys, the keys express functional meanings through patterns or characters, the semantics are not clear, a user usually does not understand the meanings of icons and is difficult to understand, the visual display is monotonous and not attractive, and the fatigue feeling is easy to generate after the user uses the control panel for a long time.

The above information disclosed in this background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the background of the application and therefore it may comprise prior art that does not constitute known to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

One of the purposes of the utility model is to provide a display module for domestic appliance for solve the problem that icon or characters semanteme are not clear and not aesthetic on the current display screen.

In order to realize the purpose of the utility model, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme to realize:

a display assembly for a household appliance comprising a display module and a control module, wherein the display module comprises: a membrane having at least one pattern region formed thereon; at least one light-emitting area which corresponds to each pattern area, is connected with the control module and is used for illuminating each pattern area; at least one touch key corresponding to each pattern area and connected with the control module; by touching each touch key, the control module controls each light-emitting area to correspondingly illuminate or not illuminate each pattern area.

According to the display component for the household appliance, in order to realize color display of the pattern area and improve the attractiveness, the film is a PET color film printing film, a PVC color adhesive sticker printing film or a color film.

As a specific implementation manner of the touch key, each touch key is a capacitive touch key, a resistive touch key, or a photosensitive touch key.

The display module for the household appliance comprises a touch film, and each touch key is arranged on the touch film.

In order to improve the light emitting uniformity of the light emitting regions and make the pattern regions displayed more uniform, the display module further comprises a light homogenizing plate which is arranged above each light emitting region and is used for homogenizing the light from each light emitting region.

As a specific embodiment of the light uniformizing plate, the display assembly for a home appliance is a white acrylic back surface painting member or a white PVC or PET material printed on the back surface painting member.

According to the display component for the household appliance, each light-emitting area is an LED lamp group, and each LED lamp group is connected with the control module.

As above display module for domestic appliance, in order to promote the light diffusion of LED lamp, increase light-emitting area, display module still includes the LED lighting fixture, the box body structure of LED lighting fixture for having opening and certain degree of depth, the box body structure with each LED banks of installation on the surface that the opening is relative.

In order to protect the membrane or the touch key from being damaged, the display module further comprises a transparent panel located at the uppermost part of the display assembly, and the transparent panel may be a glass panel or an acrylic panel.

The second objective of the utility model is to provide a household appliance for the problem that icon or characters semanteme are not clear and not aesthetic in the display panel of solving current household appliance.

A household appliance comprises a display panel, and is characterized in that the display panel is the display assembly for the household appliance.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses an advantage is with positive effect: (1) the meanings of the original characters or icons are visually expressed through the pattern areas, the visibility is good, the user can conveniently understand the meanings, and the use experience of the user is improved; (2) the display of the pattern area improves the visual experience of a user, the appearance is attractive, the patterns are interacted, and the use interestingness is increased.

Other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a display module for a household appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the display module for a household appliance according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

It should be noted that in the description of the present invention, the terms of direction or positional relationship indicated by the terms "upper", "lower", etc. are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which are only for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Example one

In order to enhance the understanding of the user to the icon or the character meaning, the original meaning of the character or the icon is visually expressed through the pattern, and the visibility is good; man-machine carries out the interaction through the pattern, increases the interest in the use, and the demonstration of pattern makes the product pleasing to the eye.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1, the present embodiment relates to a display assembly for a household appliance, the display assembly includes a control module 1 and a display module 2, specifically, the display module 2 includes a film, at least one light-emitting area 21 and at least one touch key 22, at least one pattern area is formed on the film, one pattern area, one light-emitting area 21 and one touch key 22 correspond to each other, and the pattern area of the present embodiment is a real photograph of the meaning of an original icon or a character. When a user touches the corresponding touch key 22, the control module 1 is triggered through the key circuit corresponding to the touch key 11, and the control module 1 controls the light-emitting region 21 corresponding to the touch key 22 to emit light according to the touch position, so as to illuminate the pattern region corresponding to the touch key 22 on the membrane, thereby facilitating the visibility of the user. The touch key 22 of this embodiment may be a capacitive touch key, a resistive touch key, a photosensitive touch key lamp, and is preferably a capacitive touch key, and in this embodiment, the touch key 22 is further disposed on the touch film.

In order to meet the requirement of users on color display, the film of the embodiment is a PET color film printing film, a PVC color adhesive printing film or a color film, and the pattern is printed on the film in color, so that under the irradiation of the light-emitting area 21, a color pattern is generated, and the visual aesthetic feeling is improved.

In the present embodiment, in order to make the pattern region display uniform, a light uniformizing plate is disposed above each light emitting region 21 for uniformizing the light emitted from the light emitting region 21. The light unifying plate is interposed between the touch film and the light emitting region 21 when the touch film is placed below the diaphragm, and between the diaphragm and the light emitting region 21 when the touch film is placed above the diaphragm. The light-homogenizing plate of the present embodiment may be a white acrylic back-sprayed member or a PVC material or a PET material printed in white, and light from the light-emitting region 21 forms a fuzzy halo through the light-homogenizing plate to illuminate the pattern region.

In order to realize the controllability of the light emitting regions 21, in the present embodiment, each light emitting region 21 corresponds to a group of LED lamps, when the user touches the corresponding touch key 22 and needs to illuminate the corresponding pattern region, the touch key 22 sends a signal to the control module 1 through the key circuit, and the control module 1 controls the group of LED lamps corresponding to the touch key 22 to illuminate the corresponding pattern region according to the touch position.

Referring to fig. 2, which shows a specific application embodiment of a display assembly for a household appliance, the display assembly is applied to a refrigerator, a membrane 23 forms three pattern areas 231, one capacitive touch key 221 is arranged corresponding to each pattern area 231, the capacitive touch keys 221 are all formed on a touch film, and the touch film is disposed below the membrane 23. And a light uniformizing plate 24 is provided between the touch film and the light emitting region 21. Each luminous region 21 is for enclosing into square four LED lamps, in order to increase luminous area of luminous region 21, be provided with LED lighting fixture 25, LED lighting fixture 25 is for having the open-ended box structure, the opening is for not hindering the diffusion the light that each LED lamp sent, the box structure has certain degree of depth (for example 10 mm), each LED banks is installed on the basal surface of box structure (it is relative with the opening), make each LED banks have certain distance (for example 10 mm) apart from even worn-out fur 24, reach the purpose of light diffusion like this.

With continued reference to fig. 2, in order to protect the membrane 23 from being damaged, a transparent panel 26, which may be a glass panel, an acrylic panel, or the like, is disposed above the membrane 23, the illuminated pattern area 231 is displayed through the transparent panel 26, and when not in use, the control module 1 is triggered through a key circuit by correspondingly clicking the pattern 231, and the control module 1 controls to turn off the LED lamp set corresponding to the pattern area 231, and turn off the display of the pattern area 231.

The display component for the household appliance visually expresses the meaning of the original characters or icons through the pattern area 231, has good visibility, is convenient for a user to understand the meaning, and improves the use experience of the user; the display of the pattern area 231 improves the visual experience of the user, is attractive, and is interactive through the patterns, thereby increasing the use interest.

Example two

The present embodiment relates to a household appliance having a display panel, such as a refrigerator, a kitchen appliance such as an oven and a microwave oven, an air conditioner, a washing machine, an ice maker, a gas or electric water heater, wherein the display panel is a display assembly for the household appliance, which is used to solve the problem that the display panel displays an icon or a text with unclear semantic and unaesthetic meaning in the existing household appliance, and the pattern region 231 is used to visually express the display panel, so that the visibility and the aesthetic property are good, and the use interest is increased. Please refer to fig. 1 and fig. 2 and the above description for the specific structure and description of the display assembly for the home appliance, which are not repeated in this embodiment.

The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the embodiments described in the foregoing embodiments, or that equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which is claimed.

Claims

1. A display assembly for a household appliance comprising a display module and a control module, wherein the display module comprises:

a membrane having at least one pattern region formed thereon;

at least one light-emitting area which corresponds to each pattern area, is connected with the control module and is used for illuminating each pattern area;

at least one touch key corresponding to each pattern area and connected with the control module;

by touching each touch key, the control module controls each light-emitting area to illuminate or not illuminate each pattern area.

2. The display module as claimed in claim 1, wherein the film is a PET color film printing film, a PVC color sticker printing film or a color film.

3. The display module of claim 1, wherein each touch key is a capacitive touch key, a resistive touch key, or a photosensitive touch key.

4. The display module for home appliances according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the display module includes a touch film, and each touch key is disposed on the touch film.

5. The display module of claim 4, further comprising a light homogenizing plate disposed above each light emitting region for homogenizing light from each light emitting region.

6. The display module as claimed in claim 5, wherein the light homogenizing plate is a white acryl back spray or a PVC or PET material printed in white.

7. The display module for home appliances according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein each light emitting region is an LED lamp group, and each LED lamp group is connected to the control module.

8. The display module of claim 7, further comprising an LED lamp holder having a box structure with an opening and a depth, wherein the surface of the box structure opposite to the opening is provided with the LED lamp sets.

9. The display module for home appliances according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a transparent panel positioned at the uppermost of the display modules.

10. A household appliance comprising a display panel, characterized in that the display panel is a display assembly for a household appliance as claimed in any one of the preceding claims 1 to 9.