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Touch-sensitive operating device for a motor vehicle and motor vehicle

US9310949B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH · DE

Inventors

Frank Kaiser · Berlin, DE
Sascha Staude · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
Stefan Mueller · Villingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 20, 2012
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 20, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2203/04108
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a touch-sensitive operating device (1) for a motor vehicle, having an actuation lever (2), in particular a steering column stalk, which has an elongate configuration, having a sensor arrangement comprising at least one touch-sensitive and/or proximity-sensitive sensor element (4) which is arranged on the actuation lever (2), and having an electronic evaluation device which is coupled to the at least one sensor element (4) and is configured to detect the at least one sensor element (4) being touched and/or the at least one sensor element (4) being approached. The evaluation device is configured to identify an operating gesture of an operator on the actuation lever on the basis of a combination of at least two detected touches on the sensor arrangement and/or approaches towards the sensor arrangement, and to trigger a predetermined operating function on the basis of the identified operating gesture.

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