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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 23, 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, in particular for a vehicle component, is provided with a housing () that has a control panel () and is provided for attaching in an apparatus, in particular a vehicle dashboard or vehicle center console, the control panel () being elastically mounted on the housing (). Furthermore provided is an actuator () for mechanically exciting exclusively the control panel () when use of the control panel () is detected, the control panel forming the front side of a touch-sensitive touch panel (). Finally, the operating unit also comprises a vibration compensation mass () that is mechanically excitable by the or by an actuator () when use of the control panel () is detected and is elastically mounted in and/or on the housing () and is movable to essentially compensate for a movement of the housing () when activating the actuator () that can mechanically excite the control panel (). The operating unit has a backlit display () that has a display unit () and a backlight unit () separate therefrom. The backlight unit () or the display unit () can operate individually or together as vibration compensation masses ().