OPERATING DEVICE FOR TRAILER VEHICLES

• US 20090326755A1
• Filed: 07/05/2007
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZF CV Systems Europe BV (Zeppelin - Stiftung der Stadt Friedrichshafen)
• Original Assignee: Wabco GmbH (Wabco Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Stender, Axel, Risse, Rainer
• Granted Patent: US 8,543,278 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/55 Remote control arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to an operating device (20) for trailer vehicles, having an operating element (22) for performing a control function of the trailer vehicle and a display (21) for displaying control information (310) corresponding with the control function.

Claims

1. An operating device (20) for trailer vehicles, characterized by an operating element (22) for executing a control function of the trailer vehicle and by a display (21) for presenting control information (310) corresponding to the control function.

2. An operating device according to claim 1, characterized in that at least two different control functions are executed, the display (21) presenting control information (310) corresponding to the respective control function.

3. An operating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by an operating element (22), which is designed to execute at least two different control functions upon actuation on the basis of the control information (310) presented on the display (21).

4. An operating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the executable control functions can be configured on the basis of control devices of the trailer vehicle that are coupled with the operating device.

5. An operating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the display (21) is designed to present operating data that are assigned to monitoring of operating parameters.

6. An operating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by fewer than ten, especially only three operating elements (22, 23, 24).

7. An operating device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one or more of the following functions are provided:

operator control of electronic level regulation of the trailer vehicle, manual control of the position of a built-in lift axle of the trailer vehicle, control of a road finisher brake of the trailer vehicle and control of switching outputs for lights, especially the interior lights of the trailer vehicle.

8. A method for operator control of a trailer vehicle, comprising the steps of:

presenting control information (310), and

assigning, to an operating element (22), a control function of the trailer vehicle corresponding to the control information (310).

9. A method according to claim 8, further comprising the steps of:

actuating an operating element (22) for execution of a first control function on the basis of a first presented item of control information (310), and

actuating the operating element (22) for execution of a second control function on the basis of a second presented item of control information (310), the first control function and the second control function being different.