EP2180489B1 - Steuervorrichtung für Kraftfahrzeug und entsprechendes Stellglied - Google Patents

Steuervorrichtung für Kraftfahrzeug und entsprechendes Stellglied Download PDF

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EP2180489B1
EP2180489B1 EP09173993.8A EP09173993A EP2180489B1 EP 2180489 B1 EP2180489 B1 EP 2180489B1 EP 09173993 A EP09173993 A EP 09173993A EP 2180489 B1 EP2180489 B1 EP 2180489B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
    • H01H13/70—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a plurality of operating members associated with different sets of contacts, e.g. keyboard
    • H01H13/84—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a plurality of operating members associated with different sets of contacts, e.g. keyboard characterised by ergonomic functions, e.g. for miniature keyboards; characterised by operational sensory functions, e.g. sound feedback
    • H01H13/85—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a plurality of operating members associated with different sets of contacts, e.g. keyboard characterised by ergonomic functions, e.g. for miniature keyboards; characterised by operational sensory functions, e.g. sound feedback characterised by tactile feedback features
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2215/00—Tactile feedback
    • H01H2215/05—Tactile feedback electromechanical
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2219/00—Legends
    • H01H2219/036—Light emitting elements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2231/00—Applications
    • H01H2231/026—Car
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2239/00—Miscellaneous
    • H01H2239/074—Actuation by finger touch

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  • the present invention relates to a control device for a motor vehicle, in particular for transmitting a haptic feedback to a user.
  • the invention also relates to an actuator configured to be mounted in such a control device.
  • multifunction control devices made for example in the form of a joystick or a rotary knob, are increasingly used to control electrical or electronic systems, such as an air conditioning system, an audio system, as described in the document US 5,121,091A n , or a navigation system.
  • Such devices may be associated with a display screen and allow navigation in pull-down menus comprising various commands relating to the systems to be controlled.
  • a user touches the touch surface of such a sensor it is possible to measure the applied pressure and / or to determine the location of the support by applying a suitable electrical voltage, or to detect the contact of a finger of the sensor.
  • a suitable electrical voltage or to detect the contact of a finger of the sensor.
  • user on the touch surface for example using a capacitive or optical technology.
  • Some control devices also provide a control device having a touch control surface that can benefit from a backlight for better identification of the functions to be controlled, especially when driving at night.
  • control devices generally comprise at least one actuator connected to the control surface of the control device for applying a movement to the touch control surface, so that the user perceives a haptic feedback informing him that his order has been taken into account.
  • the vehicles are more and more personalized and some options, particularly concerning a control device of electrical or electronic systems of the vehicle, such as the backlight, the haptic feedback, or the touch surface technology, can be chosen at the last moment of assembly.
  • a control device of electrical or electronic systems of the vehicle such as the backlight, the haptic feedback, or the touch surface technology
  • the assembly of the various components of the control device can be long and expensive depending on the options of the control device.
  • the invention therefore aims to provide an improved haptic feedback control device for simplified assembly at lower cost.
  • Electrical coupling of said actuator is thus performed to said support carrying said electronic circuit for the control of said actuator without the use of electric wires or electrical connectors, which allows assembly of the actuator to support faster, at lower cost and more. robust.
  • control device 1 configured to be mounted in a chassis 3 of a motor vehicle, for example located at the center console between the two front seats of the vehicle to control, for example, a control system, is shown in a dotted box. air conditioning, an audio system or a navigation system.
  • the sensor of the tactile control surface is a pressure sensor, for example using FSR technology for "Force Sensing Resistor” in English, that is to say using pressure-sensitive resistors.
  • the support 9 carries an electronic circuit on which components can be welded.
  • This support 9 is for example made in the form of a printed circuit board.
  • the support 9 is mechanically coupled to the tactile control surface 5 via the base 6.
  • connection pins 11A, 11B are provided sufficiently long to pass through the support 9 and be connected to the opposite face 9B of the support 9 and rigid enough to mechanically couple the actuator 7 to the support 9 and ensure the mechanical strength of the actuator 7.
  • connection pins 11A, 11B are for example welded to the opposite face 9B of the support 9, by a technique of wave or wave selective welding.
  • connection of the actuator 7 to the support 9 gives good mechanical strength of the assembly during the generation of the haptic feedback.
  • the actuator 7 when the actuator 7 generates a movement to transmit a haptic feedback to the user, the support 9 and therefore the entire device 1 is driven in motion. The user then perceives the haptic feedback via the touch control surface 5.
  • the actuator 7 may further comprise a force and positioning means 13A, 13B mounted on the support 9. This means of recovery stress and positioning 13A, 13B also makes it possible to improve the mechanical coupling of the actuator 7 on the support 9.
  • the force recovery and positioning means comprises for example at least two pins 13A, 13B cooperating with two corresponding complementary housings 14A, 14B provided on the support 9.
  • the two pins 13A, 13B are for example arranged on either side of the two electrical connection pins 11A, 11B.
  • the actuator 7 comprises a housing 15 which has a central housing 17 to accommodate the electrical connection pins 11A, 11B, and the pins 13A, 13B are formed at the ends of this central housing 17 so as to frame the two pins connection 11A, 11B.
  • a solder paste is placed in the metallised holes 10A, 10B by a screen-printing technique, and then the electrical connection pins 11A, 11B are inserted into the metallized holes 10A, 10B before being passed through a furnace. reflow.
  • a technology "pin in paste” in English we are talking about a technology "pin in paste" in English.
  • the actuator 7 is mounted on the surface of the support 9, as a Surface Mounted Device (SMD).
  • SMD Surface Mounted Device
  • the means of force recovery and positioning 13A, 13B also ensures the mechanical coupling of the actuator 7 on the support 9.
  • the two electrical connection pins 11A, 11B each comprise a curved end 12A, 12B which cooperates with a conductive track of the electronic circuit for connecting by reflowing the actuator 7 to the support 9. More specifically, a solder paste is disposed on the conductive track by a screen printing technique, then the support 9 carrying the actuator 7 is passed through a reflow oven for soldering the pins electrical connection 11A, 11B of the actuator 7 on the support 9.
  • At least one rigid plate 18 for holding the connection pins 11A, 11B.
  • the holding plate 18 has holes associated with the connection pins 11A, 11B for a force fit of the connection pins 11A, 11B.
  • the holding plate 18 is formed in the housing 15 of the actuator at the connection pins 11A, 11B.
  • the holding plate 18 is fixed between the actuator 7 and the support 9 facing the connection pins 11A, 11B so as to enable the connection pins 11A, 11B to be mounted in force in the associated holes of the holding plate 18.
  • the holding plate 18 can be fixed on the face 9A of the support 9.
  • the support plate 18 in the case where the actuator 7 is mounted through the support 9, can be fixed on the opposite face 9B of the support 9.
  • the actuator 7 makes it possible to apply a vibration movement to the support 9.
  • an electromagnetic actuator or of "voice coil” type in English comprising a fixed part and a movable part.
  • the moving part is generally driven in translation in an air gap of the fixed part, between two end positions (not shown) so as to generate a vibration movement of the actuator 7.
  • this mobile part may be a movable magnet sliding inside a fixed coil or a moving coil sliding around a fixed magnet.
  • the actuators 7 can be driven in translation along a longitudinal axis X.
  • a plurality of actuators 7 may be arranged in a tape packaging process to supply a mounting station.
  • the support 9 to mechanically decouple the support 9 with respect to the frame 3 and thus allow the support 9 to have a compliance with the frame 3, it is possible for the support 9 to comprise at least one damper 19 placed between the support 9 and the support 9. chassis 3.
  • the damper 19 comprises for example an elastomeric material.
  • the damper 19 is on the one hand fixed to the frame 3 and on the other hand cooperates with a corresponding opening (not shown) provided on the support 9.
  • the damper 19 may have a generally cylindrical shape to cooperate with a corresponding hole (not shown) formed on the support 9.
  • the support 9 has a generally parallelepipedal shape and four dampers 19 are arranged at the angles of the support 9.
  • the device 1 may further comprise means for backlighting the tactile control surface 5 carried by a face 9A of the support 9 opposite the surface of the touch control 5.
  • the backlighting means comprises at least one light source 21 connected to the electronic circuit of the device 1.
  • This light source 21 is for example a light emitting diode.
  • a pictogram is for example made of a white plastic material allowing light to pass through. the light source 21 placed behind the pictogram. During daytime driving, the driver clearly sees the white pictograms and when driving at night, the backlighting allows for easy location of the controls.
  • a tactile control surface 5 and a base 6 partially or totally transparent or translucent.
  • the electronic circuit of the device 1, the tactile control surface 5, the base 6, the actuator (s) 7 and the backlighting means with the light source (s) 21 are carried by a common support 9.
  • the support 9 has on its face 9A a main location 23 for the electronic circuit of the device 1, the light sources 21, and the touch control surface 5 and the base 6, facing the light sources 21.
  • Two actuators 7 can then be arranged on either side of this main location 23.
  • An improved multi-function control device 1 is thus obtained with a low weight and allowing simplified assembly at a lower cost.
  • one or more actuators 7 can be easily integrated in such a control device 1 to generate a haptic feedback to the user, whatever the functions already supported by the control device 1, such as the backlighting of the touch control surface 5.

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  1. Steuervorrichtung (1) für ein Kraftfahrzeug, die aufweist:
    - eine berührungsempfindliche Steuerfläche (5), die einen Sensor aufweist, um einen Kontakt des Benutzers auf der berührungsempfindlichen Steuerfläche (5) zu erfassen,
    - mindestens ein Stellglied (7), um die berührungsempfindliche Steuerfläche (5) so in Bewegung zu versetzen, dass eine haptische Rückmeldung an den Benutzer generiert wird,
    - einen Träger (9) eines Elektronikschaltkreises der Vorrichtung,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Stellglied (7) zwei elektrische Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) aufweist, die mit Leiterbahnen des Schaltkreises in Kontakt gebracht werden, um das Stellglied (7) und den Träger (9) elektrisch zu verbinden, und dass der Träger (9) über einen Sockel (6) mechanisch mit der berührungsempfindlichen Steuerfläche (5) gekoppelt ist.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zwei elektrischen Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) in durchquerender Weise auf den Träger (9) montiert sind, um das Stellglied (7) mechanisch mit dem Träger (9) zu koppeln, damit die Bewegung des Stellglieds (7) mittels der zwei elektrischen Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) und des Trägers (9) auf die berührungsempfindliche Steuerfläche (5) übertragen wird.
  3. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Stellglied (7) eine mit dem Träger (9) zusammenwirkende Kraftaufnahme- und Positioniereinrichtung (13A, 13B) aufweist, so dass die Bewegung des Stellglieds (7) mittels der Kraftaufnahme- und Positioniereinrichtung (13A, 13B) und des Trägers (9) an die berührungsempfindliche Steuerfläche (5) übertragen wird.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Kraftaufnahme- und Positioniereinrichtung mindestens zwei Zapfen (13A, 13B) aufweist, die zu beiden Seiten der zwei elektrischen Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) angeordnet sind.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 3 oder 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zwei elektrischen Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) mit zwei entsprechenden im Träger (9) ausgesparten metallbeschichteten Löchern zusammenwirken.
  6. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 3 oder 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zwei elektrischen Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) ein gekrümmtes Ende aufweisen, das mit einer Leiterbahn des Schaltkreises zusammenwirkt, um das Stellglied (7) und den Träger (9) durch Rückschmelzen zu verbinden.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie mindestens eine Halteplatte der elektrischen Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) aufweist.
  8. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, die dazu bestimmt ist, in einem Fahrgestell (3) eines Fahrzeugs angeordnet zu werden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Träger (9) mindestens einen Dämpfer (19) aufweist, der dazu bestimmt ist, zwischen dem Träger (9) und dem Fahrgestell (3) angeordnet zu werden, um den Träger (9) und das Fahrgestell (3) mechanisch zu entkoppeln, damit der Träger (9) eine Nachgiebigkeit bezüglich des Fahrgestells (3) aufweist.
  9. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass eine Seite (9A) des Trägers (9) gegenüber der berührungsempfindlichen Steuerfläche (5) eine Einrichtung zur Hintergrundbeleuchtung der berührungsempfindlichen Steuerfläche (5) trägt.
  10. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Einrichtung zur Hintergrundbeleuchtung mindestens eine mit den Elektronikschaltkreisen der Vorrichtung (1) verbundene Lichtquelle (21) aufweist, und dass die berührungsempfindliche Steuerfläche (5) durchsichtig oder durchscheinend ist, um das von der Lichtquelle (21) kommende Licht durchzulassen.
  11. Stellglied, das konfiguriert ist, in eine Steuervorrichtung (1) für ein Kraftfahrzeug montiert zu werden, die aufweist:
    - eine berührungsempfindliche Steuerfläche (5), die einen Sensor aufweist, um einen Kontakt des Benutzers auf der berührungsempfindlichen Steuerfläche (5) zu erfassen,
    - einen Träger (9) eines Elektronikschaltkreises der Vorrichtung,
    wobei das Stellglied konfiguriert ist, die berührungsempfindliche Steuerfläche (5) in Bewegung zu versetzen, um eine haptische Rückmeldung an den Benutzer zu generieren,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Stellglied (7) zwei elektrische Anschlussstifte (11A, 11B) aufweist, die mit Leiterbahnen des Schaltkreises in Kontakt gebracht werden, um das Stellglied (7) und den Träger (9) elektrisch zu verbinden, und dass der Träger (9) über einen Sockel (6) mechanisch mit der berührungsempfindlichen Steuerfläche (5) gekoppelt ist.
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