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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2017
Behr-hella Thermocontrol Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Tobias Schwab, Lippstadt, DE;
Harri Pankratz, Lippstadt, DE;
BEHR-HELLA THERMOCONTROL GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The operating unit for a device, particularly for a vehicle component, is provided with a housing that has an operating panel and is provided for attachment in an apparatus, particularly a vehicle dashboard or vehicle center console, the operating panel being elastically mounted on the housing. Further, an actuator for mechanically exciting the operating panel when use of the operating panel is detected is provided. Finally, the operating unit also has a vibration compensation mass that is mechanically excitable by the or by an actuator when use of the operating panel is detected and is elastically mounted in and/or on the housing and is movable to essentially compensate for a motion of the housing when the actuator mechanically exciting the operating panel is activated. The operating unit has a backlit display that has a display unit and a backlight unit separate therefrom. The backlight unit serves as a vibration compensation mass.