Method for operating a pressure-sensitive control panel of a motor vehicle

US9798422B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Mueller · Hamburg, DE
• Michael Wachinger · Bad Fallingbostel, DE
• Tim Kraemer · Eitensheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 29, 2015
• Grant date: Oct 24, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 29, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2203/04105
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A detection device detects a position at which a touch-sensitive operator control unit is touched by an object by detecting a pressure (pm) which is applied to the touch-sensitive operator control unit by the object at the position. In addition, a speed (vm) and/or an acceleration (am) of the motor vehicle is detected and a pressure threshold value (ps) is predefined as a function of speed (vm) and/or accelerations (am) of the motor vehicle. The method determines whether the detected pressure (pm) is higher than the predefined pressure threshold value (ps) and triggers a function (F), assigned to the detected position, of the motor vehicle exclusively if the detected pressure (pm) is higher than the predefined pressure threshold value (ps).