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US 10,606,303 B2Granted
Control lever for a vehicle
AssigneeAGCO International GmbH
InventorJan Weigand
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Abstract
A vehicle control lever which has a moveable control panel provided on the lever. The control panel has a plurality of operating elements to control different vehicle functions, wherein the configuration of the operating elements can be re-assigned to control different vehicle functions based on the position of the control panel on the control lever.
Claims11
A control lever for a vehicle, the control lever comprising:
- a lever body having a hand gripping surface, the lever body having a base end and an upper end, and
- a control panel mounted to said lever body, the control panel having configurable operating elements provided thereon, the control panel moveable about the lever body,
- wherein the operating elements are configured based at least in part on the position of the control panel relative to the lever body, wherein a plurality of the configurable operating elements are assigned to control directionally-related components of the vehicle, wherein said plurality are re-assigned based on the orientation of the control panel relative to the lever body when the control panel is moved about the lever body, such that the position of a re-assigned operating element corresponds to the respective direction of the assigned component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.