CN114877062A

CN114877062A - Electronic gear shift lever operating device, electronic gear shift lever and gear shifting method

Info

Publication number: CN114877062A
Application number: CN202210550906.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 方伟家; 司华超; 张贵海; 钟梦为
Original assignee: Lantu Automobile Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Lantu Automobile Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-05-18
Filing date: 2022-05-18
Publication date: 2022-08-09

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of electronic gear shift levers, and discloses an electronic gear shift lever operating device, an electronic gear shift lever and a gear shifting method; the electronic shift lever operating device includes: a roller mouse body and a connector; the circuit unit of the roller mouse body is connected with a connector, and the connector is matched with a communication connector of the electronic gear shifting lever controller; the left button of the roller mouse body is a P-gear button and generates a P-gear signal; the roller of the roller mouse body is a gear shifting roller, and the right button of the roller mouse body is a gear shifting combination confirmation key to generate a D gear signal, an N gear signal or an R gear signal; when the gear shifting operation is implemented, the right key of the roller mouse body is pressed down, the roller is rolled at the same time, and the switching of the D gear, the N gear and the R gear is achieved. The electronic gear shift lever operating device, the electronic gear shift lever and the gear shifting method provided by the invention can improve the universality and convenience, give consideration to the operation of a vehicle-mounted computer, expand the operating mode of the vehicle-mounted computer and improve the operation convenience.

Description

Electronic gear shift lever operating device, electronic gear shift lever and gear shifting method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic shift levers, in particular to an electronic shift lever operating device, an electronic shift lever and a shifting method.

Background

The electronic shift lever gradually replaces a mechanical shift lever to become a mainstream shift mechanism of the vehicle, and mainly has various forms such as an electronic wire control type, a knob type, a key type and the like; the main difference lies in that the electronic gear functional structure inside the external operating mechanism is basically the same. The existing operating mechanism has the disadvantages of complex structure, various operating rules, inconvenience and poor universality. On the other hand, with the popularization of intelligent devices such as vehicle-mounted computers, the operation and functions of the vehicle-mounted computers are more and more abundant, and conventional touch screen operation is relatively inconvenient and cannot be matched with the operation requirements of the vehicle-mounted computers, such as the operation of office files and the like.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides an electronic gear shift lever operating device, an electronic gear shift lever and a gear shifting method, which can simplify an electronic gear shift lever operating mechanism to a certain extent, improve universality and convenience, give consideration to vehicle-mounted computer operation, expand the operating mode of a vehicle-mounted computer and improve the operation convenience.

To solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides an electronic shift lever operating device, including: a roller mouse body and a connector;

the circuit unit of the roller mouse body is connected with the connector, and the connector is matched with the communication connector of the electronic gear shift lever controller;

the left button of the roller mouse body is a P-gear button and generates a P-gear signal;

the roller of the roller mouse body is a gear shifting roller, and the right key of the roller mouse body is a gear shifting combination confirmation key to generate a D gear signal, an N gear signal or an R gear signal;

when the gear shifting operation is implemented, the right button of the roller mouse body is pressed down, the roller is rolled at the same time, and switching of the D gear, the N gear and the R gear is achieved.

Furthermore, the roller mouse body is a wireless mouse.

Further, the wireless mouse is provided with a wireless transceiver, and the wireless transceiver is provided with a joint connected with the vehicle-mounted computer.

Further, the wireless mouse is provided with a Bluetooth communication module.

Further, the wireless mouse is an optical mouse.

Furthermore, a locking mechanism which can be matched and locked on a vehicle center console is arranged on the roller mouse body.

Further, the locking mechanism includes: and (5) buckling.

An electronic shift lever comprising: a shift controller and said electronic shift lever operating device;

the gear shifting controller is detachably connected with a connector of the electronic gear shifting rod operating device, acquires a P gear signal, a D gear signal, an N gear signal or an R gear signal output by the roller mouse body, and drives the gear shifting mechanism to implement gear shifting operation.

A gear shifting method based on the electronic gear shift lever; the method comprises the following steps:

the controller acquires trigger signals of a left button, a roller and a right button of the roller mouse;

when only the left key is triggered, the controller outputs a P shift signal;

when only the right key and the roller are triggered simultaneously, the controller outputs a D gear signal, an N gear signal or an R gear signal.

Further, when only the right button and the roller are simultaneously triggered, the controller outputting a D-range signal, an N-range signal or an R-range signal includes:

when the current gear is the N gear, the roller rolls backwards, and the controller triggers and outputs a D gear signal;

when the current gear is the D gear, the roller rolls forwards, and the controller triggers and outputs an N gear signal;

when the current gear is N gear, the roller rolls forward, and the controller triggers and outputs an R gear signal.

One or more technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present application have at least the following technical effects or advantages:

the electronic gear shifting rod operating device, electron gear shifting rod and the method of shifting that provide in the embodiment of the application, utilize roller mouse compatible on-vehicle computer simultaneously, car machines such as touch-control computer and the operation of the operating device of electron gear shifting rod, optimize the simple operation and the commonality of electron gear shifting rod on the one hand, can well compromise the habitual operation of on-vehicle computer simultaneously, can fully enlarge various computer software, the operation of file, thereby the demand of official working on the realization car, in order to satisfy the convenience demand of use of various computer software.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic shift lever according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that all the directional indications in the embodiments of the present application are only used to explain the relative position relationship, the motion situation, and the like between the components in a certain posture, and if the certain posture is changed, the directional indication is changed accordingly.

The following disclosure provides many different embodiments, or examples, for implementing different features of the application. In order to simplify the disclosure of the present application, specific example components and arrangements are described below. Of course, they are merely examples and are not intended to limit the present application. Moreover, the present application may repeat reference numerals and/or letters in the various examples, which have been repeated for purposes of simplicity and clarity and do not in themselves dictate a relationship between the various embodiments and/or arrangements discussed. In addition, examples of various specific processes and materials are provided herein, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize applications of other processes and/or use of other materials.

The application is described below with reference to specific embodiments in conjunction with the following drawings.

The embodiment of the application can simplify the electronic gear shift lever operating mechanism to a certain extent, promote universality and convenience, take vehicle-mounted computer operation into consideration, expand the operation mode of a vehicle-mounted computer and promote the operation convenience by providing the electronic gear shift lever operating device, the electronic gear shift lever and the gear shifting method.

For better understanding of the above technical solutions, the above technical solutions will be described in detail with reference to the drawings and specific embodiments of the present application, and it should be understood that the embodiments and specific features of the embodiments of the present invention are detailed descriptions of the technical solutions of the present application, and are not limitations of the technical solutions of the present application, and the technical features of the embodiments and examples of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

Referring to fig. 1, the embodiment of the application provides an electronic shift lever operating device, an electronic shift lever based on the operating device, and a shifting method, so as to improve and simplify a shifting operation mode, improve the operation universality and convenience, and simultaneously allow the electronic shift lever to be used as a vehicle-mounted computer peripheral mouse, so that the operation efficiency and convenience of computer software and files are further improved, the software and file range of operability is expanded, and the office requirements in a vehicle are met.

As will be described in detail below.

The gear shifting functional structure of the vehicle mainly comprises a gear shifting executing mechanism and a control operation structure; shift actuators are typically assembled to the vehicle structure, embodying mechanical actuation of the shift; the control operation structure can be arranged into a mechanical gear shifting rod and an electronic gear shifting rod, and the gear shifting actuating mechanism is driven by the mechanical gear shifting rod and the electronic gear shifting rod operated by a driver to complete gear shifting operation. The electronic gear shifting rod is provided with an operating mechanism and a gear shifting controller, the operating mechanism can be arranged on the center console, and the controller is connected with the gear shifting executing mechanism to realize driving gear shifting. Generally, the operating structure may be a key or a knob, and the operating key or the knob sends each gear trigger signal to the shift controller, and the shift controller receives the signals and then performs shift driving.

In the embodiment of the application, an electronic gear shifting lever operating device is provided, and is arranged on a vehicle center console, so that an operator can operate conveniently, and gear shifting operation is implemented through combination arrangement of gear shifting keys and roller shifting.

Specifically, the electronic gear shift lever operating device can be provided with a mouse with a roller function structure, namely a roller mouse, and trigger signals generated by pressing and rolling operations of a left key, a roller and a right key are used as trigger signals of gear shift operations, collected by a gear shift controller and then correspondingly drive a gear shift mechanism to act.

Generally, the shift positions of the vehicle mainly include a P gear, a D gear, an N gear and an R gear, so that the shift operation requirement can be met only by outputting four different trigger signals through the roller mouse. Therefore, a left button of the roller mouse body is set as a P-gear button, namely a parking gear button, and a trigger signal of the P gear is generated by pressing; in order to improve parking safety, the right button of the roller mouse is used as a gear for releasing parking, namely, the gear is shifted from a P gear to a D gear, an N gear and an R gear, and the parking is required to be released, so that the right button of the roller mouse can be set as an unlocking P gear button.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, the switching of the D gear, the N gear and the R gear is realized by the rotation of the wheel of the mouse, and similarly, in consideration of the risk of gear loss due to the rotation of the wheel, in order to improve the reliability of gear locking, the switching of the D gear, the N gear and the R gear and the right button of the wheel mouse may form a combined function button, that is, only when the right button of the wheel mouse is pressed, the gear switching function by rolling of the wheel is realized; that is to say, the gear shift controller needs to receive the key signal of the right button of the roller mouse and the rolling signal of the roller at the same time, so that gear shift can be performed, and the reliability of gear shift and locking of the roller is realized in a button interlocking manner.

Therefore, a logic operation module is arranged in the gear shifting controller, namely the input end of the logic operation module is respectively provided with at least three signal input ends which respectively correspond to signals of a right mouse button, a left mouse button and a mouse roller, and the level state or pulse of the input ends is collected to realize logic operation, so that the operation of gear shifting instructions is completed, and corresponding gear shifting instructions are output.

Of course, it can also be understood that the right button of the roller mouse body is a shift combination confirmation button, the roller of the roller mouse body is a shift roller, and when the trigger signal generated by the rotation of the roller and the trigger signal of the right button exist at the same time, the D-shift signal, the N-shift signal or the R-shift signal can be output. Therefore, when the gear shifting operation is implemented, the right key of the roller mouse body is pressed down and the roller is rolled at the same time, so that the switching of the D gear, the N gear and the R gear is realized.

In order to realize the connection of the roller mouse body and the gear shifting controller, the roller mouse body is provided with a connector, and the connector is connected with the circuit unit of the roller mouse body to realize the signal transmission.

Generally, the connectors may be configured as a connector head and a signal line, the connector head being detachably connected to the shift controller. Or the connector is directly integrated on the roller mouse body, the connector of the gear shifting controller is arranged on the center console, and the alignment connection is realized by positioning and installing the roller mouse body.

In order to improve the reliability of the gear shifting operation mechanism, a locking mechanism which can be matched and locked on a vehicle center console is arranged on the roller mouse body. Generally, two parts of a clamping pair can be respectively arranged on the console and the roller mouse body, so that the two parts can be stably fixed.

Of course, an in-place detection switch can be arranged on the center console and used for detecting the in-place condition of the roller mouse, the in-place detection switch is connected with the vehicle ECU, and the vehicle can normally start gear shifting only after the in-place signal of the roller mouse is detected.

It is worth emphasizing that the wheel mouse in the embodiment may be a typical mouse structure, and can be used as a peripheral device connected to a vehicle-mounted computer. Therefore, the range of software and files which can be operated on the vehicle-mounted computer can be expanded, and convenient use is realized.

In the embodiment of the application, the roller mouse body can be a wireless mouse, so that the connection signal line can be simplified as much as possible, and the simplicity of the center console is ensured. Of course, the roller mouse is not excluded to adopt a detachable signal wire mode, and the signal wire is connected when the roller mouse is independently used as an external device of a vehicle-mounted computer.

The wireless mouse can be provided with an independent wireless transceiver, the wireless transceiver is provided with a joint connected with the vehicle-mounted computer, the wireless transceiver can be detachably inserted into an external interface of the vehicle-mounted computer, a standard wireless mouse connection mode is realized, and communication is implemented through a built-in wireless communication protocol.

Of course, the wireless mouse can also be connected with the vehicle computer through the built-in Bluetooth communication module in a Bluetooth mode.

Generally, in order to improve the sensitivity of the mouse, the wireless mouse may be configured as an optical mouse.

The embodiment of the application also provides an electronic gear shifting lever, namely a gear shifting controller and the electronic gear shifting lever operating device. In order to adapt to the use working condition of the gear shifting lever and the use working condition of the vehicle-mounted computer peripheral, the gear shifting controller is detachably connected with the connector of the electronic gear shifting lever operating device. The gear shifting controller drives the gear shifting mechanism to implement gear shifting operation by acquiring a P gear signal, a D gear signal, an N gear signal or an R gear signal output by the roller mouse body.

In some embodiments, a mode switching combination key may be arranged in the shift controller, so that the roller of the roller mouse can be set to have a type selection function of pressing the key, the left button, the roller and the right button are simultaneously pressed, and three signals are simultaneously triggered to realize mouse mode switching, namely, the mouse mode is switched to a shift mode or a vehicle-mounted computer peripheral mode, so that misoperation is avoided, and use safety and convenience are not affected.

The embodiment of the application also provides a gear shifting method based on the electronic gear shifting lever, and the gear shifting method is based on the electronic gear shifting lever; the method comprises the following steps:

when only the left key is triggered, the controller outputs a P shift signal;

according to the electronic gear shifting rod operating device, the electronic gear shifting rod and the gear shifting method, the roller mouse is compatible with the vehicle-mounted computer, the operation of the vehicle machines such as a touch computer and the operation mechanism of the electronic gear shifting rod is controlled, on one hand, the operation convenience and the universality of the electronic gear shifting rod are optimized, meanwhile, the habitual operation of the vehicle-mounted computer can be well considered, various computer software and files can be fully expanded, the office requirement on the vehicle is met, and the use convenience requirement of various computer software is met.

In this application, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "secured" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral part; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "center," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the present application and for simplicity in description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated in a particular manner, and are not to be construed as limiting the present application.

In addition, descriptions in this application as to "first", "second", etc. are for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicit to the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In addition, technical solutions between various embodiments may be combined with each other, but must be realized by a person skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present application.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may comprise the first and second features being in direct contact, or may comprise the first and second features being in contact, not directly, but via another feature in between. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description herein, reference to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the application. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, the different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by a person skilled in the art

While the preferred embodiments of the present application have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the application.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is intended to include such modifications and variations as well.

Claims

1. An electronic shift lever operating device, comprising: a roller mouse body and a connector;

2. The electronic shift lever operating device of claim 1, wherein the roller mouse body is a wireless mouse.

3. An electronic shift lever operating device as set forth in claim 2, characterized in that said wireless mouse is provided with a wireless transceiver and said wireless transceiver is provided with a connector for connection to an onboard computer.

4. The electronic shift lever operating device of claim 2, wherein the wireless mouse is provided with a bluetooth communication module.

5. The electronic shift lever operating device of claim 2, wherein the wireless mouse is an optical mouse.

6. An electronic shift lever operating device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said roller mouse body is provided with a locking mechanism which is adapted to be lockably engaged to a center console of a vehicle.

7. An electronic shift lever operating device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said locking mechanism comprises: and (5) buckling.

8. An electronic shift lever, comprising: a shift controller and an electronic shift lever operating device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7;

9. A gear shifting method based on the electronic shift lever of claim 8; it is characterized by comprising:

when only the left key is triggered, the controller outputs a P shift signal;

10. The gear shifting method of claim 9, wherein the controller outputting a D range signal, an N range signal, or an R range signal when only the right button and the wheel are simultaneously activated comprises: