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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2022
Bhtc Gmbh, Lippstadt, DE;
Markus Karliczek, Lippstadt, DE;
BHTC GmbH, Lippstadt, DE;
Abstract
The operating device for a vehicle is provided with a capacitively operating touch panel () comprising an upper face with a touch-sensitive surface, and an operating unit comprising a movable operating element () which can the grasped manually and has an electrically conductive surface and a plate-shaped holding element provided with an upper face and a lower face () facing away from the upper face, on which holding element the operating element () is movably arranged and which in turn is arranged on the touch-sensitive surface of the upper face of the touch panel (). The operating element () comprises at least one wiper electrically connected to its electrically conductive surface, which wiper slides along a sensing path () of the upper face of the holding element when the operating element () is moved. The holding element comprises alternately successive first sections () and second sections () along the sensing path (). The upper and lower face () of the holding element are connected to each other in an electrically conductive manner in each of the first sections () and are electrically insulated from each other in each of the second sections ().