A handle assembly for an armrest control console of a steering system of a work vehicle. The handle assembly includes a base member, a hand-receiving member, and an electro-mechanical connection located in between the base member and the hand-receiving member. The electro-mechanical connection detachably connects the hand-receiving member to the base member such that the hand-receiving member is rigidly supported by and electrically coupled with the base member. The electro-mechanical connection is located exterior to the armrest control console.

A lever control member, also known as joystick, for generating command signals that control the movement of boats, watercrafts or the like includes a base, a stick, a shaft for supporting the stick, a joint mechanically coupled to the shaft and positioned in a supporting housing included in the base, one or more sensors, one or more electronic circuits, and one or more control mechanisms, for example, one or more buttons. A subset of those control mechanisms possibly may be positioned on the stick and may be used to manage the swaying of one or more outboard motors around a horizontal axis parallel to the transom, known as “trim.” The joystick may be provided with an ergonomically shaped control mechanism and/or a rotating member, which may be activated by an operator.

In a control method for actuating a manually actuated lever provided for actuating an operation and/or work function, the manually actuated lever includes a device for hand detection, which releases an actuation of the operation and/or work function when a sensor-based evaluation of the positioning of a palm resting on a handle piece of the manually actuated lever surmises an activating intent on the part of an operator. In the event that the manually actuated lever is deflected from a neutral or rest position, an operating command corresponding to the current deflection state is generated, wherein a control command intended to execute the operation and/or work function is matched, according to a predefined transition function and via a control unit, to the operating command resulting from the deflection state, as soon as the actuation of the operation and/or work function is released by the device for hand detection.

Methods and apparatus provide for controlling an operating device, wherein the operating device includes: (i) a grip part to be gripped by a user; and (ii) an operation part for activation by a finger of the user gripping the grip part, where the operation part includes: (i) a movable part capable of moving from a resting position toward another position in response to a force applied by the finger of the user, (ii) a biasing element operating to urge the movable part toward the resting position, (iii) a sensor operating to measure the force applied by the finger of the user to the movable part and produce a sensing signal therefrom, and (iv) a motorized assembly operating to receive a drive signal, and in response, apply an amount of force to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user, and where the drive signal is a variable dependent on variations in the sensing signal, such that the amount of force applied to the movable part in opposition to the force applied by the finger of the user provides the user with haptic feedback.

Hand controls for an aircraft, including a single axis hand control which is configured to control movement of an aircraft along a vertical axis where the aircraft includes a plurality of rotors that are attached to the aircraft at a fixed position and the plurality of rotors rotate independently of one another. The hand controls further include a three axis hand control which is configured to control movement of the aircraft within a plane defined by a roll axis and a pitch axis, as well as about a yaw axis.

A single hand controller including a front surface and a back surface, with a first and second side surface there between and an upper surface and bottom surface. The upper surface includes a joystick, and the front surface has a proportional plunger and one or more switches. The controller is grasped by placing a user's finger tips on the front surface, with user's index finger operating the proportional plunger and remaining fingers operating the switches. The thenar eminence group of muscles of the user's hand rests against the back surface, whereby the user's thumb is disposed so as to operate the joystick.

A construction machine that frequently changes between a forward and reverse direction of movement includes a system and method for operating the machine such that rotation of the operator seat can change the direction and speed of the machine's movement to minimize disorientation by the operator. The machine can be changed from moving in the forward direction to moving in the reverse direction, without changing the position of a propel lever or joystick that is used to control the direction and speed of the machine's movement. Rotation of the seat can be used to proportionally reduce the speed of the machine as the machine nears a threshold for changing direction. The joystick can be a dual axis lever that can move along a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis. The direction of movement and speed of the machine can depend on a combination of the joystick position and seat position.

Disclosed is a multi-tactile fusion feedback handle, characterized in that the handle comprises three areas, namely, a finger tactile function area, a palm tactile function area and a space positioning function area. The finger tactile function area comprises one or more tactile buttons, a finger can operate the tactile buttons alone or in combination, and the tactile buttons have feedback functions for one or more kinds of tactility, namely, softness, temperature, surface friction and texture, and shape. The palm tactile function area comprises a multi-point independent vibration source and/or a multi-point independent heat source, which can be used for multi-point independent vibration feedback and/or multi-point independent temperature feedback, as well as vibration flow and heat flow feedback. The space positioning function area comprises a space positioning module, which can obtain position information of the handle in space in real time. Compared with a traditional various discrete-type tactile feedback apparatus, the present invention gives a user a complete and realistic composite tactile experience in a virtual scene, and the handle is feasible in integration and convenient for holding.

An aircraft hand controller is disclosed. The hand controller includes a set of finger controls on a single hand grip structure, the set of finger controls including a first finger control configured to control throttle of the aircraft and a second finger control, separate from the first, configured to control rotation about a first rotational axis of the aircraft.

An operating device includes a movable part capable of moving between a first position and a second position, with the movable part being capable of operation by the finger of the user gripping the operating device. The operating device includes a regulating part that regulates a range in which the movable part can move, and a control part that determines the amount of regulation in which the movable part can move and provides the regulating part with an instruction to regulate the range in which the movable part can move according to the amount of regulation which has been determined.