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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Hans Burtscher, Waiblingen, AU;
Uwe Probst, Orsingen-Neuzingen, DE;
Boris Wiegand, Bebra, DE;
Jochen Pfeiffer, Karlsruhe, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for switching several electric circuits in a vehicle, wherein several positions of an actuating element are binarily coded, the binary codification is fed to a logic and the logic controls the switching of the electric circuits, and also a corresponding switch with an actuating element and a switching device for attaining several switching modes, depending upon the position of the actuating element, wherein the switching device is constructed of several switching elements with two switching modes each, so that there results a binary codification of the switching modes of all switching elements, depending upon the position of the actuating element in order to switch the electric circuits by means of a logic.