Patent ID: 9662983
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B60K,G01D,G06F,H03K

Claim:
1. A control device for selecting functions in a vehicle, said device comprising: three sensors wherein each of the three sensors output a binary signal and are arranged on an electronic board fixed in a case, the three sensors switching in response to passage of passive markers arranged on a support displaceable by means of a manipulable control element, the support being displaceable in translation along a longitudinal axis towards a front position and a rear position and perpendicularly along a transversal axis towards a right position and a left position, wherein the longitudinal axis and second transversal axis form main axes and, displaceable in rotation about a normal axis perpendicular to the main axes in a clockwise direction and in an anticlockwise direction, wherein the marker support and the control element are connected to an indexing and return means which biases the marker support and the control element towards a neutral position, the three sensors and the markers being arranged such that each of the neutral position, the front position, the rear position, the right position, the left position, as well as rotation in each of the clockwise direction and anticlockwise direction is individually identified by a three-digit binary signature emitted by the three sensors, wherein the marker support comprises a surface of revolution that rotates about the normal axis, at the periphery of which the markers are arranged uniformly at a constant angular spacing so that a neutral signature that indicates that the control element is at the neutral position is emitted each time the marker support turns by an angle corresponding to the angle of constant angular spacing, whereby the neutral signature is emitted a plurality of times per revolution of the marker support and in which, following a rotation, the indexing and return means urges the marker support toward a stable angular position identified by the neutral signature.