US 2017/0358409 A1Published application

Actuation device

AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsVolker LANTZSCH, Arne BAHNS, Mathias MÜLLER, Richard Ludwig SCHIEMENZ

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Abstract

An actuating apparatus having a signal transmitter and a mechanical operating element, wherein the mechanical operating element includes a first position that is stable over time and a second position that is stable over time, wherein the mechanical operating element, in the case of a movement from the first position that is stable over time into the second position that is stable over time, actuates the signal transmitter, and wherein the signal transmitter, upon actuation, causes a first signal change followed by a second signal change of an output signal, and an evaluation circuit detects an actuation of the mechanical operating element based on the first signal change and the second signal change.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An actuating apparatus, comprising:

a signal transmitter that transmits an output signal;
and
a mechanical operating element, wherein the mechanical operating element comprises a first position that is stable over time and a second position that is stable over time,
wherein the mechanical operating element actuates the signal transmitter in response to a movement from the first position to the second position, and
wherein, in response to the actuation by the mechanical operating element, the signal transmitter performs a first signal change followed by a second signal change of the output signal,
wherein the actuating apparatus further comprises:
an evaluation circuit that detects an actuation of the mechanical operating element based on the first signal change and the second signal change, wherein a temporal interval between the first signal change and the second signal change lies within a predetermined range, and
means for preventing actuation of the signal transmitter in response to the temporal interval being outside the predetermined range.

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An actuating apparatus, comprising:

a signal transmitter that outputs an output signal;
a mechanical operating element, wherein the mechanical operating element comprises a first position that is stable over time and a second position that is stable over time, wherein the mechanical operating element actuates the signal transmitter in response to movement from the first position to the second position, and wherein the signal transmitter outputs a first signal change followed by a second signal change of the output signal in response to the actuation by the mechanical operating element;
an evaluation circuit that detects actuation performed by the mechanical operating element based on the first signal change and the second signal change in response to a temporal interval between the first signal change and the second signal change being within a predetermined range, and
an actuation cam arrangement that prevents actuation of the signal transmitter in response to the temporal interview being outside the predetermined range.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/620,390Filed 12 Jun 2017
Priority: DE 10 2016 210 515.914 Jun 2016
Published: 14 Dec 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H01H 21/22
Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon: operating parts, e.g. handle
H01H 19/14
Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon: operating parts, e.g. turn knob
H01H 19/36
Switches operated by an operating part which is rotatable about a longitudinal axis thereof and which is acted upon directly by a solid body…: the…
H01H 19/54
Switches operated by an operating part which is rotatable about a longitudinal axis thereof and which is acted upon directly by a solid body…: the…