CONTROL LEVER DEVICE FOR A DRIVING OPERATION OF A VEHICLE

Abstract

Control lever device for a driving operation of a vehicle, having a base body with a fastening interface for fastening in the interior of the vehicle in a fastening position, and a control lever having an elongate extent along a control axis. The lever is movably mounted on the base body in a neutral position for a tilting movement in at least one tilting direction about an axis of rotation which, in the fastening position, has an acute first control angle to a direction of travel axis of the vehicle for an inclination of the control lever from the neutral position transversely to the direction of travel axis of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A control lever device for a driving operation of a vehicle, said control lever device comprising: a base body having a fastening interface for fastening to an interior of the vehicle in a fastening position (BP), and a control lever having an elongate portion extending along a control axis (KA), said control lever being movably mounted on the base body and having a neutral position (NP), the control lever being mounted for a tilting movement, with respect to the neutral position (NP), in at least one tilting direction (KR) about an axis of rotation which, in the fastening position (BP), is spaced apart from a direction of travel axis (FA) of the vehicle by an acute first control angle (K1), and wherein the tilting direction (KR) is transverse to the direction of travel axis (FA) of the vehicle.

2. The control lever device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first control angle is configured to be in a range of about 4515.

3. The control lever device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the axis of rotation has an acute second control angle with respect to a plane passing through the direction of travel axis and a vertical axis, the second control angle being in a range between 5 and 10.

4. The control lever device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control lever has, along the at least one tilting direction, a tilting clearance which is configured to be less than 900.

5. The control lever device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the tilting clearance is configured to be in the range between 5 and 45.

6. The control lever device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base body and/or the control lever have/has a variation device for varying the first control angle.

7. The control lever device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base body has an armrest and/or is fastened to an armrest.

8. The control lever device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the armrest has an adjusting device for adjusting an orientation of the armrest.

9. The control lever device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the base body, the control lever and the armrest form a common structural unit.

10. A vehicle comprising the at least one control lever device having the features of claim 1.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0023] Further advantages, features and details of the invention will emerge from the description below in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are described in detail with reference to the drawings. Here, the features mentioned in the claims and in the description may be essential to the invention in each case individually by themselves or in any desired combination. In the drawings:

[0024] FIG. 1 schematically shows an embodiment of a control lever device according to aspects of the invention,

[0025] FIG. 2 schematically shows a further schematic illustration of an orientation possibility according to FIG. 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0026] FIG. 1 schematically shows a control lever device 10 according to aspects of the invention in a schematically illustrated vehicle 100. This control lever device 10 is equipped with a base body 20 which, here via an armrest 50, has a fastening interface 22. This fastening interface 22 makes it possible in the vehicle 100 to achieve an assembly in the fastening position BP, as illustrated in FIG. 1.

[0027] It can further be seen in FIG. 1 that a defined correlation of the control lever device 10 with the direction of travel axis FA and the vertical axis VA of the vehicle 100 can also be assumed by the defined fastening position BP. This relates for example to the orientation of the armrest 50 approximately perpendicular to the vertical axis VA and along the direction of travel axis FA.

[0028] In order to be able to achieve the advantages according to aspects of the invention, the axis of rotation DA of the control lever 30 is then inclined downwardly with respect to the direction of travel axis FA in the neutral position NP. In order to be able to carry out a control movement, the control lever 30 can be moved out of the neutral position NP along the at least one tilting direction KR about the axis of rotation DA. The tilting direction KR here is configured transversely to the direction of travel axis FA and can be equated, for example, with a transverse guidance of the vehicle. Of course, also further tilting directions KR can allow, for example, braking movements and acceleration as well using the control lever 30.

[0029] In order to be able to make available further variation possibilities, the control lever device 10 is here equipped with a variation device 40. This variation device 40 allows the variation of the orientation of the control axis KA with respect to that of the vertical axis VA and the direction of travel axis FA. The armrest 50 is also designed with an adjusting device 60, with the result that the armrest 50 can also be adapted with corresponding adjustment possibilities to the actual user ergonomics.

[0030] FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a plan view of FIG. 1. Here, the direction of travel axis FA and the vertical axis VA define a plane which extends upwardly perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in FIG. 2.

[0031] The above explanation of the embodiments describes the present invention exclusively within the scope of examples. Individual features of the embodiments may of course be freely combined with one another, if technically feasible, without departing from the scope of the present invention.