Device element comprising an operating component
AssigneeBulthaup GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsMarc Oliver Eckert, Ulrich Spohde
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device element comprising an operating component, wherein said device element is designed to carry out at least one process, and the operating component is designed such that said process of the device element is carried out depending on the position of the operating component, said operating component being freely placeable relative to the device element, and a sensor system is provided which detects at least one characteristic of the operating component and actuates the process of the device element depending on this detection.
Claims20
A furniture element having a control element, wherein
- the furniture element is designed to carry out at least one procedure;
- the control element is designed such that the procedure of the furniture element is carried out in dependence on a position of the control element;
- wherein
- the control element is freely positionable and able to be integrated at any point on a surface of the furniture element;
- and
- a sensor system is present that detects at least one property of the control element and controls the procedure of the furniture element in dependence on this detection,
- the control element having a plurality of surfaces that differ to the extent that which surface of the control element faces or faces away from the sensor system can be recognized by means of the sensor system.
A furniture element designed to carry out a procedure, the furniture element comprising:
- a control element designed such that the procedure of the furniture element is carried out in dependence on a position of the control element, wherein the control element is freely positionable and able to be integrated at any point on a surface of the furniture element;
- and
- a sensor system configured to detect a property of the control element and to control the procedure of the furniture element in dependence on the property;
- wherein the control element is a cube, the cube having a numerical value, word, or symbol on each of five sides and no value on a sixth side;
- wherein, when the control element is positioned on the surface of the furniture element, the sensor system is configured to wirelessly detect which face of the cube faces outward from the surface of the furniture element,
- wherein, when the control element is positioned on the surface of the furniture element and the sensor system detects a side of the cube facing outward from the surface of the furniture element being one of the five sides having the numerical values, words, or symbols, the procedure of the furniture element is controlled according to the numerical value, word, or symbol on the side of the cube facing outward;
- wherein, when the control element is positioned on the surface of the furniture element and the sensor system detects the sixth side of the cube facing outward from the surface of the furniture element, the furniture element is switched off;
- and
- wherein, when the control element is not positioned on the surface of the furniture element, the furniture element is switched off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.