Switch arrangement
AssigneeDaimlerChrysler AG
InventorsEmil Dinkel, Bernd Schmidt, Jurgen Schrader
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Abstract
For a switch arrangement for adjusting different positional parameters of a motor-vehicle seat, such as, for example, inclination of the backrest, inclination and depth of the seat cushion, inclination of the arm rests, etc, designs are proposed which can be operated in a particularly convenient and intuitively reliable manner. The switch arrangements can, in particular, relate the relative position of different parts of the motor-vehicle seat transversely to the longitudinal direction to the position of the control elements within a control panel. The switch arrangement can particularly advantageously be fitted at the hand-supporting end of an arm rest.
Claims9
Switch arrangement for setting positional parameters of a vehicle seat by means of a control panel having a number of control elements which are assigned settable parts of the vehicle seat and whose position and/or actuating direction in the switch arrangement relates to the position and/or adjusting direction of the associated part in the vehicle seat, characterized in that the mutual position and/or actuating direction of the control elements (BKS, BSK, . . . ) in the switch arrangement corresponds qualitatively to the relative position and/or adjusting direction of the respectively associated parts (KS, SK, . . . ) of the vehicle seat, when looking at the vehicle seat from the front, and/or in that the control elements (BKS, BSK, . . . ) are arranged on a support body (T) which, for its part, can be displaced in at least one direction (VLS, VHS) and in the process causes the entire vehicle seat to be adjusted in an adjusting direction assigned in a spatially obvious manner.
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