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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Behr-hella Thermocontrol Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Klaus-Martin Masthoff, Lippstadt, DE;
Tobias Schwab, Lippstadt, DE;
Matthias Stallein, Lippstadt, DE;
BEHR-HELLA THERMOCONTROL GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The operating device for a vehicle component, in particular a human machine interface (HMI) for vehicles, is provided with a housing, comprising a front wall having a front face in particular with a display surface and a rear face facing away from the front face, and an operating element unit which is positioned and/or can be positioned on and/or in front of the front wall of the housing for manually triggering operating functions and/or for manually adjusting parameters of operating functions for a vehicle component. The operating element unit comprises at least one operating element, a display element and/or a display device, an evaluating and control unit assigned to the at least one operating element and to the display element or the display device, and an energy supply unit. In order to supply electric energy to the energy supply unit of the operating element unit, at least one first coil is arranged so as to face the rear face of the front wall, wherein at least one second coil, which is inductively coupled to the at least one first coil and is connected to the energy supply unit, is arranged in and/or on the operating element unit.