Operating element arrangement for controlling motor vehicle longitudinal and transverse movements

US6167981A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diamler Chrysler AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Boehringer · Waiblingen, DE
• Lutz Eckstein · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 1997
• Grant date: Jan 2, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 17, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K26/02
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An operating element arrangement and method controls the longitudinal and transverse movements of a motor vehicle by using a manually actuatable regulating element which is stationary in the vehicle longitudinal direction and controls the longitudinal movement of the vehicle as a function of the actuating force exerted on the regulating element in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The regulating element also serves to control the vehicle transverse movement of the vehicle. For this purpose, the regulating element is arranged movably in the vehicle transverse direction of the vehicle. The transverse movement of the vehicle is controlled as a function of the transverse deflection of the regulating element or as a function of the actuating force exerted in the transverse direction of the vehicle.