20080312773 | Barrier-Free Appliance - The present invention provides a method for barrier-free control of a household appliance, said method comprising, providing a program-controlled household appliance with a control panel having a plurality of operating program selectors for selecting programs of appliance operations and corresponding program cycles controlled by a micro controller, a memory component for storing the functions of the appliance operating programs and corresponding program cycles, a display unit for displaying the output of the status of the appliance operation, selecting the desired appliance operating program, enabling by an automatic selection a set of compatible program cycles corresponding to the selected appliance operating program, disabling automatically the corresponding non-compatible program cycles that are contrary to the selected appliance operating program, disabling automatically the corresponding non-compatible program cycles that are contrary to the selected program cycles, and executing the program cycles of the selected appliance operating program. | 12-18-2008 |