# US 2014/0150598 A1 · Operating device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0150598 A1 - Document ID: US20140150598A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/234,804 - Filed: 2012-07-20 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2011-07-26 - Assignees: Continental Automotive GmbH - Inventors: Thorsten Alexander Kern - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140150598A1 ## CPC - G05G 5/03: Means for enhancing the operator's awareness of arrival of the controlling member at a command or datum position; Providing feel, e.g. means for creating a counterforce (arrangements for indicating the position of the controlling member G05G1/015) - G05G 1/10: Details, e.g. of discs, knobs, wheels or handles {(G05G1/085 takes precedence)} - G05G 9/047: the controlling member being movable by hand about orthogonal axes, e.g. joysticks {(for switches H01H25/04)} - Y10T 74/2051: Adjustable - G05G: CONTROL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS INSOFAR AS CHARACTERISED BY MECHANICAL FEATURES ONLY ("Bowden" or like mechanisms F16C1/10; gearings or mechanisms not peculiar to this purpose F16H; speed changing or reversing mechanisms for gearings conveying rotary motion F16H59/00 - F16H63/00) - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract An operating device includes a handle, a sensor system and an actuator. The handle is configured to be: manually deflectable from an inoperative position relative to an axis, and rotatable about the axis, and/or displaceable axially with respect to the axis, and/or tiltable in relation to the axis, and/or displaceable transversely with respect to the axis. The sensor system is configured to detect the deflection of the handle and has a haptics device by which the handle can be subjected to the action of a haptically detectable effect in correspondence with the deflection of the handle. The actuator, to which the handle is fixedly connected, is configured to drive the handle such that the actuator can be moved alternately in one degree of freedom by a movement distance of <1 mm depending on the deflection of the handle. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 1-10. (canceled) ### Claim 11 An operating device comprising: a handle (1) configured to be: manually deflectable from an inoperative position relative to an axis, and rotatable about the axis, and/or displaceable axially with respect to the axis, and/or tiltable in relation to the axis, and/or displaceable transversely with respect to the axis; a sensor system configured to detect the deflection of the handle and having a haptics device by which the handle can be subjected to the action of a haptically detectable effect in correspondence with the deflection of the handle; and an actuator (3), to which the handle (1) is fixedly connected, configured to drive the handle (1) such that the actuator (3) can be moved alternately in one degree of freedom by a movement distance of <1 mm depending on the deflection of the handle (1). ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The operating device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the handle (1) is configured so as to be drivable such that it can be moved alternately in one degree of freedom at a frequency of >100 Hz. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The operating device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the handle (1) is configured so as to be drivable such that it can be moved alternately axially in relation to the axis with a different rhythm pattern for each type of deflection. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The operating device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the actuator (3) comprises a rotationally symmetrical reciprocating armature magnet and reciprocating armature fixedly connected to the handle (1), the actuator being drivable such that the armature can be moved alternately axially in relation to the axis (2) by the movement distance. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The operating device as claimed in claim 11, further comprising a control electronics system (7), wherein the sensor system is configured to generate electrical signals in correspondence with the deflection of the handle (1) and feed the generated electrical signals to the control electronics system (7), which is configured to accordingly generate an actuation signal that actuates the actuator (3). ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The operating device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the sensor system is configured to detect the deflection of the handle (1) in a contact-free manner. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The operating device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the sensor system comprises a plurality of magnetic field-sensitive sensor elements. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The operating device as claimed in claim 17, further comprising a diametrically magnetized permanent-magnet ring (4) drivable, in correspondence with the deflection of the handle (1), such that it can be moved, the permanent-magnet ring (4) being oriented in a first plane perpendicular to the axis (2) and in a magnetic-field region in which the plurality of magnetic field-sensitive sensor elements are arranged in a stationary second plane extending perpendicular to the axis (2) when the handle (1) is in an inoperative position. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The operating device as claimed in claim 18, wherein the magnetic field-sensitive sensor elements are arranged at a uniform angular distance and at the same radial distance from the axis when the handle (1) is in the inoperative position. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The operating device as claimed in claim 19, wherein the magnetic field-sensitive sensor elements are Hall sensors (6).