Continental Automotive France

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Siemens Vdo Automotive Corporation

Michel Collet

Wim Teulings

Eric Servel

Gerard Mouaici

Yves Dordet

Pierre-Yves Allard

Didier Puech

Pascal Perrot

Xavier Bajul

Florian Brunet-Lugardon

Olivier Boutteville

An electronic push button for a motor vehicle door handle, including an activation pattern supported by a membrane that is flexible in the direction of an electric switch carried by a printed circuit board, the activation pattern defining an activation surface that is pressed by an operator's finger in order to push the activation pattern in the direction of the electric switch. The activation pattern is made up of a set of studs that extend parallel to one another away from the electric switch, with the majority of the studs being spaced apart from one another, the set of studs discontinuously delimiting an outer contour of the activation surface of the electronic push button.

Electronic push button for a motor vehicle door handle with activation pattern made up of studs

The object is to ensure the absence of friction between a housing supporting a sensor and a mounting arranged to support a target, and the absence of load take-up resulting from the contact and lack of precision among mounting interfaces. This involves forming, in a mounting position, a clearance between the mounting and the housing and then releasing the target mounting in the operative position of the sensor. A cylindrical recess for freely receiving with a clearance the mounting supporting the reference element serving as a target and which is mountable on the shaft, is provided in the housing which supports the sensor and which is attachable to the stationary part. Removable locking elements provided between the mounting and the housing maintain the latter in an initial position when the locking elements are operative and, when inoperative, release the mounting mounted on the rotary shaft from the housing.

Method for mounting an angular displacement detector and detection device provided with corresponding mounting means

A method and a device for measuring the angular position, between two steering locks, of a steering wheel of a vehicle, includes equipping the vehicle with a main gearing () designed, once the vehicle has started, to make it possible to calculate the absolute angular position of the steering wheel from data provided by a first angular sensor () associated with this main gearing. According to the invention, the vehicle is additionally equipped with an auxiliary gearing composed of one of the gearwheels () of the main gearing, of a third gearwheel (), and of intermediate elements () for sequentially driving the third gearwheel () that are able to make it possible, upon starting of the vehicle, to measure the angular position of the third gearwheel () via a second angular sensor () associated with this gearwheel.

Method and device for measuring the angular position, between two steering lock stops on a vehicle steering wheel

This device () for holding a sensor () or similar element in a casing () includes:

Sensor holding device

A pedal has a control device () including a mobile pedal (), elements for returning () the control device returning the pedal () in its idle position as well as a force-feedback mechanism () to produce a hard spot when the pedal () is depressed. The force-feedback mechanism () includes an electric motor () designed to act on the control device (), via one-way linking elements () and gear reduction elements, in the same direction as the return elements (). The one-way link prevents any action of the force-feedback mechanism () on the control device () in the direction opposite to the direction of action of the return elements () The one-way link advantageously includes a clearance which enables the electric motor () to rotate in the direction allowing it to act on the control device () without acting immediately on the device.

Immediateforce-feedback pedal

The thrust return mechanism () is intended for a thrust return pedal. It includes an electric motor () for the positioning of a control member () by the intermediary of transmission elements. The transmission elements include at least one cable () of which one end is fixed to a first pulley () and which is then wound around a second pulley () and of which the second end is fixed on the first pulley ().

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Toulouse, France

Michel Collet