Integrated control apparatus for driving vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorWon Jin Jeong
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Abstract
An integrated control apparatus for driving a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a lever housing mounted in an interior space of the vehicle; a joystick lever coupled to the lever housing and configured to be rotatable in a forward-backward direction and a leftward-rightward direction; and a gentle acceleration lever coupled to the joystick lever and configured to be rotatable in the forward-backward direction. When the gentle acceleration lever is operated, a gentle acceleration signal of the vehicle is generated, and when the joystick lever is operated, one of a sudden acceleration signal, a deceleration signal, a steering signal, or a braking signal of the vehicle is generated.
Claims12
An integrated control apparatus for driving a vehicle, the integrated control apparatus comprising:
- a lever housing mounted in an interior space of the vehicle;
- a joystick lever coupled to the lever housing and configured to be rotatable in a forward-backward direction and a leftward-rightward direction;
- an acceleration lever coupled to the joystick lever and configured to be rotatable in the forward-backward direction;
- a steering hinge coupled to the lever housing and configured to be rotatable in the leftward-rightward direction;
- a plurality of steering-sensor permanent magnets, wherein a first steering-sensor permanent magnet is coupled to an end of the steering hinge and a second steering-sensor permanent magnet is coupled to an end of a motor shaft of a motor;
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- a steering-sensor printed circuit board (PCB) fixedly mounted in the lever housing and configured to:
- face the plurality of steering-sensor permanent magnets;
- when the joystick lever is rotated in the leftward-rightward direction, recognize a change in magnetic flux depending on a change in position of the plurality of steering-sensor permanent magnets;
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- generate a steering-related signal,
- wherein, when the gentle-acceleration lever is operated, an acceleration signal of the vehicle is generated,
- wherein, when the joystick lever is operated, one of an additional acceleration signal, a deceleration signal, a steering signal, or a braking signal of the vehicle is generated, and
- wherein the joystick lever is connected to the steering hinge and is rotated in the leftward-rightward direction together with the steering hinge against the lever housing.
An integrated control apparatus for driving a vehicle, the integrated control apparatus comprising:
- a lever housing mounted in an interior space of the vehicle;
- a joystick lever coupled to the lever housing and configured to be rotatable in a forward-backward direction and a leftward-rightward direction;
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- an acceleration lever coupled to the joystick lever and configured to be rotatable in the forward-backward direction,
- a lever pin coupled to a lower end of the joystick lever in the leftward-rightward direction;
- a carrier rotatably coupled at one end of the carrier to a steering hinge, the carrier having a groove formed in a wave shape in a lower surface of the carrier that is in contact with the lever pin;
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- a carrier spring configured to provide elastic force to the carrier to maintain contact between the lever pin and the groove,
- wherein two opposite ends of the carrier spring are supported by the steering hinge and the carrier,
- wherein, when the acceleration lever is operated, an acceleration signal of the vehicle is generated, and
- wherein, when the joystick lever is operated, one of an additional acceleration signal, a deceleration signal, a steering signal, or a braking signal of the vehicle is generated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.