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  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
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  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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  • G06F3/0354—Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user, e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
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• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
  • H01H3/00—Mechanisms for operating contacts
  • H01H2003/008—Mechanisms for operating contacts with a haptic or a tactile feedback controlled by electrical means, e.g. a motor or magnetofriction

Definitions

• the invention relates to a haptic operating device, in particular for motor vehicles, having a touch panel having at least one tactile touch field, wherein a contact signal is triggered by touching the touch area and the touchpad by a movement drive in the plane of the touch panel in a certain rhythm is driven to move and the Touchpad is connected via one or more flexible connecting elements with a fixed support.
• the object of the invention is to provide a haptic control device of the type mentioned, which has a protected against environmental influences, simple and specializedsunansocili- construction.
• the carrier and the touch panel two housing parts of a closed housing in which at least the display device or the display level is arranged, and the device via a sealing device in the plane of the touch panel or in a plane parallel to the touch panel movable relative to each other.
• the housing parts of the touchpad and the carrier can adjoin one another in the plane of the touchpad or in one or more planes parallel to the touchpad, the sealing device being arranged between the adjoining regions of the touchpad and the carrier.
• the sealing device may be an elastic sealing element which is connected to the adjoining areas of the touchpad and the carrier.
• the sealing device is an elastic sealing element, such as. Example, a membrane, which is connected to the adjoining areas of touchpad and carrier.
• the elastic sealing element made of a material whose rigidity in a temperature range between -40 0 C to +110 0 C is at least approximately equal.
• the sealing element may consist of a plastic.
• a labyrinth seal having one or more labyrinths and forming a closed circular path can be arranged between the parallel adjacent planes of the touchpad and support, the webs of the labyrinth seal having a larger labyrinth seal Game protrude in a plane parallel to the plane of the touch panel in the grooves of the labyrinth seal, as the touchpad is movable relative to the carrier of the movement drive.
• the annular path has a rectangular course, wherein the straight lines of the rectangle are interconnected by means of radii.
• the touch panel can be designed to be transparent, at least in the area of the touch areas, with one or more display units fixedly connected between the touch panel and the support.
• the housing also prevents impairment of the visibility of the display area of the display device.
• the display device is an opto-electrical display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) or an organic light emitting diode (OLED) or a vacuum fluorescent display (VF).
• LCD liquid crystal display
• OLED organic light emitting diode
• VF vacuum fluorescent display
• one of the switching function of the associated scanning range assignable alphanumeric character and / or symbol can be displayed by the display device.
• the movement drive is a linear motion driving drive in a direction of movement.
• the motion drive can be an electromechanical motion drive such.
• the touch panel can have a plurality of touch-sensitive touch areas distributed over the touch panel, which can be actuated independently of one another, wherein the touch areas can preferably be arranged in a matrix for easy findability by the operator.
• the tactile areas may be in a simple design piezoelectric and / or capacitive and / or resistive tactile.
• FIG. 1 shows a perspective bottom view of a first exemplary embodiment of an operating device
• FIG. 2 shows a detail of the operating device according to FIG. 1 in cross-section
• FIG. 3 shows an enlarged section of the operating device according to FIG. 1,
• Figure 4 is a perspective bottom view of a second
• FIG. 5 shows a second perspective, partial, bottom view of the operating device according to FIG. 4,
• FIG. 6 shows a perspective cross-sectional view of the operating device according to FIG. 4
• FIG. 7 shows a perspective view of an enlarged detail of the operating device according to FIG. 4.
• the illustrated control devices have a touch panel 1, the top side is provided with a transparent film 2, which has a plurality of transparent touch-sensitive sensing areas, not shown.
• the tactile areas may be capacitive sensing areas, the contact of which triggers a switching signal which can be fed to a device to be actuated.
• the touch panel 1 has a rectangular frame 3 whose inner region is closed with a transparent plate 4, on which the film 2 is applied.
• two spring arms 5 with a rectangular cross-section are arranged at a distance from each other at one end, projecting at right angles from the side of the touch panel 1, which faces away from the film 2.
• the spring arms 5 extend with their longitudinal sides parallel to the short sides of the frame 3 and are fastened with their second ends to a support 6.
• the carrier 6 has tabs 8, the free ends of which are connected to the free ends of the spring arms 5.
• the bearing blocks 7 and the tabs 8 are arranged on the side of the respective spring arms 5 facing the middle of the carrier 6 and have a curvature at their side support surfaces 9 facing the spring arms 5, which bulges over a NEN part of the distance between the carrier 6 and keypad 1 extends.
• the support surfaces 9 approach the center region of the carrier 6 towards their other end.
• the touch panel 1 carried by the spring arms 5 and connected thereto by the support 6 is deflectable in the direction of its longitudinal extension relative to the support 6.
• the spring arms 5 form a parallelogram, so that other deflections than in the longitudinal extension direction of the touchpad 1 are not possible.
• a magnetic movement drive 10 is further arranged, which acts upon contact of a scanning range and triggering of the switching signal on an affiliated with the touch panel 1 anchor 11 for the deflection of the touch panel 1.
• This deflection takes place alternately via a path in the order of magnitude of 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm, wherein each scanning range is associated with its own rhythm, in which the touch panel 1 is driven swingingly by the magnetic movement drive 10 when a scanning range is touched.
• the spring arms 5 on one short side of the frame 3 increasingly reach the bulges of their associated support surfaces 9, so that at the end of a deflection, the spring arms 5 at least largely at their associated support surfaces 9 in Plant are.
• This oscillatory rhythm can be detected and recognized haptically by the operator who touches the scanning area.
• Haptic thus takes place both a feedback that the switching signal has been triggered, as well as due to the recognition of the special rhythm, which tactile area has been pressed.
• a liquid crystal display 12 is arranged on the side facing away from the film 2 of the touchpad 1 on the support 6, the illustrated characters and / or symbols the operator through the transparent Plate 4 of the touchpad 1 can see.
• an associated character and / or symbol is arranged behind each touch area.
• carrier and touchpad 1 form two housing parts of a closed housing.
• the touch panel 1 is designed as an open box on the side of the plate 4 opposite to the one which has a peripheral sealing area 13 parallel to the plate 4 at its opening area.
• sealing region 13 is in a plane parallel to a flat sealing region 14 of the plate-like support 6 at.
• two endlessly extending grooves 15 are formed parallel to one another along the opening region and form an annular path, into which correspondingly endlessly surrounding webs 16 of the sealing region 14 of the carrier 6 protrude.
• annular paths of grooves 15 and webs 16, which form a labyrinth seal have a rectangular course, the straight lines of the rectangle being connected to one another by means of radii 17.
• the grooves 15 In order to allow the deflection movement of the touchpad 1 unhindered to the carrier 6, the grooves 15 have a width such that the webs 16 do not reach the groove walls during the deflection of the touchpad 1.

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