Switching element
AssigneeBrose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
InventorStefan Hieltscher
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Abstract
A switching element for the contactless activation of an electric-motor adjustment drive of a motor vehicle, in particular an electric-motor-operated liftgate, having a profile strip, which extends in a longitudinal direction. The profile strip has a channel, which extends in the longitudinal direction and which transitions into a slit, which extends in the longitudinal direction. An electrode is arranged within the channel. The invention further relates to an electric-motor-operated liftgate having a switching element and to a method for creating a switching element.
Claims12
A switching element for a contactless activation of an electric-motor adjusting drive of a motor vehicle, the switching element comprising:
- a profile strip that extends in a longitudinal direction;
- a channel formed in the profile strip that extends in the longitudinal direction and transitions into a slot extending in the longitudinal direction;
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- an electrode arranged in the channel,
- wherein the profile strip has a rectangular cross-section with two flat narrow sides extending in the longitudinal direction and two flat wide sides extending in the longitudinal direction, the two flat wide sides including a flat top side and a flat bottom side, and
- wherein the slot is an opening that is recessed through the top side of the profile strip and that transitions into the channel, such that the channel is embedded inside the profile strip between the top side and the bottom side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.