US 8,263,882 B2Granted

Electrical control device

AssigneeDav

InventorsPatrice Laurent, Laurent Mounier

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Abstract

The subject of the present invention is an electric control or control-by-wire device comprising a control lever (11) that can be moved in a pivoting movement in a plane perpendicular to the lever in a position of rest, and that can be moved in a translational movement in a direction parallel to the lever in a position of rest, a rotary control member (13) that can be moved in a rotational movement and in a pivoting movement in a plane perpendicular to the lever in a position of rest, and an electrical circuit (15) for converting the various movements of the lever (11) and the rotary member (13) into control signals. The device comprises a lever base (19) that can move over a predefined travel parallel to the lever in a position of rest and which keeps the control lever fixed in terms of rotation and comprises a universal joint connection supporting the rotary control member in such a way as to connect it pivotally to the control lever (11).

Claims32

Dependent claims

An electrical control device comprising:

a control lever having a central longitudinal axis, the control lever configured for pivoting movement in a plane perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the control lever in a rest position and configured for translational movement in a direction parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the control lever in its rest position;
a rotary control member configured for rotational movement and configured for pivoting movement in a plane perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the central longitudinal axis of the control lever in its rest position;
an electric circuit for converting movements of the control lever and the rotary member into control signals;
a lever base coupled to the control lever and configured to move over a predefined travel in a direction parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the control lever in its rest position and configured to keep the control lever fixed in terms of rotation;
and
a universal joint connection disposed to support the rotary control member in such a way as to pivotally couple it to the control lever.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/305,760Filed 16 Jun 2007
Priority: FR 06 0548720 Jun 2006
Published: US 2011/0094864 A128 Apr 2011
Granted: 11 Sep 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G05G 9/04792
Comprising additional control elements: for rotary control around the axis of the controlling member
G05G 9/04737
The controlling member being movable by hand about orthogonal axes, e.g. joysticks: with six degrees of freedom
G05G 9/04796
Comprising additional control elements: for rectilinear control along the axis of the controlling member
G05G 2009/04707
Mounting of controlling member: with ball joint