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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Klaus Kronenberg, Sulzbach, DE;
Walter Rüb, Frankfurt, DE;
Peter Schäfer, Frankfurt, DE;
Erwin Sedlaczek, Steinbach, DE;
Mike Theis, Gross-Umstadt, DE;
Mannesmann VDO AG, Frankfurt, DE;
Abstract
A display having at least one hand which can be driven by an electric drive, it being possible for the hand or the hands to execute rotations of more than 360° in a first direction, wherein it is provided that the hand or the hands (Z) can be rotated in a second direction (CCW) which is counter to the first direction (CW), that the hand or one of the hands (Z) can be rotated in the second direction(CCW) only up to a certain position (P) and, in this position, assumes a reference position, and that there is a detecting device (V) which detects the inability of the hand (Z) to rotate further in the second direction (CCW).