Method and device for influencing an impression which is subjectively perceived by an occupant of a vehicle, in particular of a passenger car, when the vehicle is being operated

A device for controlling initial perceptible oscillations which are in a frequency range able to be perceived by a human body and which are produced in a zone of an interior of a vehicle wherein said perceptible oscillations are produced by an operation of said vehicle, the device comprising:

• a vibration exciter operatively coupled to a steering wheel of the vehicle in order to excite the steering wheel to undergo determined vibration oscillations;
• wherein the determined vibration oscillations are made to interfere with the initial perceptible oscillations produced while the vehicle is operating in order to at least one of reduce determined frequencies of the primary oscillations and increase determined frequencies of the initial perceptible oscillations.

A method for controlling initial perceptible oscillations which are in a frequency range able to be perceived by a human body and which are produced in a zone of an interior of a vehicle wherein said perceptible oscillations are produced by an operation of said vehicle, the method comprising the acts of:

• processing the perceptible oscillations to artificially generate data for producing secondary oscillations;
• exciting a steering wheel of the vehicle so as to undergo mechanical vibration oscillations based on the data for producing the secondary oscillations;
• interfering the vibration oscillations of the steering wheel with the initial perceptible oscillations of the vehicle such that at least certain frequencies of the primary oscillations are changed due to the interference.