Appliance audio notification device

Details Appliance audio notification device Appliance audio notification device

2005-03-08

2008-10-21

Donels, Jeffrey (Department: 2837)

Music

Instruments

Electrical musical tone generation

Reexamination Certificate

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07439439

ABSTRACT:
A flexible audio tone-generating device for use in a consumer appliance. The device generates pleasing musical tones. The device uses two outputs of a software-executing processor utilizing stored tone data associated with status events of the appliance to drive a tone circuit for outputting a melody using the tones to notify the user of the existence of one of the status events.

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