Patent ID: 8079225

Claim:
A refrigerating appliance, comprising: a housing defining a refrigerated compartment; a door attached to the housing and closing the refrigerated compartment; and a display secured to at least one of the housing and the door; wherein said display includes a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) arranged in matrix form in columns and rows, and wherein the display comprises anodes in the form of electrode strips defining one of the columns and the rows with spacers therebetween, cathodes in the form of counter-electrode strips defining the other of the columns and the rows with spacers therebetween, an emission layer disposed between said anodes and said cathodes, and means for applying a voltage to the anodes and the cathodes to generate emitted light from selected portions of the display, wherein the emission layer comprises a plurality of emission strips having substantially the same spatial alignment including length and width as the counter-electrode strips.