Patent ID: 6741183
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A pre-contact warning device for a front door of an automatic dishwasher, the front door being openable to a generally horizontal position above a support surface of the dishwasher when loading and unloading dishes, said device comprising:a pre-contact sensorially perceivable warning signal emitter; an activation control which energizes said signal emitter into a standby mode ready to emit a warning signal when the front door is open; a proximity sensor operably interconnected in said device between said signal emitter and said activation control for activating said signal emitter when the front door is open and a person moves into a predetermined proximity to the front door whereby said warning signal emitter produces a sensorially perceivable warning signal to alert the person in predetermined proximity to the dishwasher that the front door is open and is to be avoided.