Operating member with movably mounted actuating part and improved guidance mechanism for the parallel guidance of the actuating part

US12097764B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Preh GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Arthur Klossek · Bad Neustadt an der Saale, DE
• Thomas Ofenhitzer · Freiensteinau, DE
• Thilo Schultheis · Bad Neustadt an der Saale, DE
• Andreas Hofmann · North Bend, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2022
• Grant date: Sep 24, 2024
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K2360/1438
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An operating member including a support; an actuating part mounted on the support by a mount, to be movable relative to the support, by manual actuation against a resetting force to carry out an actuating movement from a rest position into a depressed position; and a detector, having at least one force sensor, adapted to detect at least one position of the actuating part is presented. The mount includes a guidance mechanism having at least one pair of coupled levers, wherein the levers are each pivotably mounted on the support by a first pivot joint defining at least one first pivot axis and on the actuating part by a second pivot joint defining at least one second pivot axis to cause a pivoting movement of the levers by the actuating movement. The guidance mechanism further includes at least one coupling rod to couple the pivoting movement of the levers.