Patent ID: 9255355
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A47L,D06F,F25D,H05K

Claim Text:
1. A control-panel assembly for household appliances, which comprises: a substantially shell-shaped, outer dashboard which is structured for being coupled to a casing of a household appliance; an internal printed circuit board which is provided with one or more display devices and/or with one or more manually-operated input devices; and at least one substantially basin-shaped, rigid protecting box, which houses all or part of said internal printed circuit board, and is structured for being firmly fixed to the rear face of the outer dashboard; wherein, said outer dashboard is provided with at least one protruding appendix that sticks out of the rear face of the outer dashboard and has, on its top, a coupling ridge which is provided with a plurality of consecutive coupling segments that are tilted relative to one another and lay substantially on a same reference laying plane; and in that said protecting box is provided with a corresponding cap appendix which is dimensioned for resting onto the top of said protruding appendix, and which has at least one coupling portion which is shaped for stably matching with any one of the consecutive coupling segments of the coupling ridge of said protruding appendix, so as to allow a discrete adjustment of the spatial orientation of the protecting box with respect to the rear face of the outer dashboard according to the coupling segment abutted.