Patent ID: 9310949
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: B60K,B60Q,G06F,H03K

Claim Text:
1. A touch-sensitive operating device for a motor vehicle, comprising: an actuation lever that is a steering column stalk having an elongate configuration; a sensor arrangement comprising at least one touch-sensitive and/or proximity-sensitive sensor element which is arranged on the actuation lever; and an electronic evaluation device which is coupled to the at least one sensor element and is configured to detect the at least one sensor element being touched and/or the at least one sensor element being approached, wherein the evaluation device is configured to identify an operating gesture of an operator on the actuation lever on the basis of a combination of at least two detected touches on the sensor arrangement and/or approaches towards the sensor arrangement, and to trigger a predetermined operating function on the basis of the identified operating gesture, and wherein the sensor arrangement has a multiplicity of touch-sensitive and/or proximity-sensitive sensor elements which are arranged so as to be distributed annularly in the circumferential direction of the actuation lever.