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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2017
Behr-hella Thermocontrol Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Harri Pankratz, Bad Sassendorf, DE;
Bastian Bandlow, Paderborn, DE;
Alexander Beschnitt, Gütersloh, DE;
Frank Vogt, Lichtenau-Husen, DE;
Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The operating unit for a vehicle, in particular for a vehicle component, is provided with a housing () which has an operating element (), such as a display for example, and is designed to be secured in a device, in particular in a vehicle dashboard. The operating element () is elastically mounted on the housing (). An actuator () is additionally provided for mechanically exciting the operating element () when an operation of the operating element () has been detected. Finally, the operating unit also has a vibration compensating mass () which can be mechanically excited by the actuator or by one actuator () when an operation of the operating element () has been detected and/or which is mounted on the housing () and can be moved in order to substantially compensate for forces acting on the housing () when the operating element () is moved.