摘要 |
<p>A method for controlling an appliance with minimum user inputs, said method comprising the steps of; providing a program-controlled appliance with a control panel having a plurality of appliance operating program selectors for enabling minimum program selection from a user, the appliance with program cycles corresponding to the selected program, said program cycles executable by a micro controller, the appliance having a memory component for storing the functions of the program cycles, the appliance having a display unit for displaying the status of the appliance operation, providing desired minimum user inputs, enabling by an automatic selection, a set of optimized compatible program cycles corresponding to the selected minimum program inputs, disabling automatically the corresponding non-compatible program cycles that are contrary to the selected program cycle, and executing the selected program cycles. The present invention also provides a method of providing a dishwasher and a dryer as the program-controlled appliance for washing and drying articles by changing the selection of appliance operating program cycles to implement washing and drying cycles based on minimum user inputs.</p> |