Patent ID: 6462731
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: G05G,Y10T

Abstract:
A joystick having a hand-grip which is mounted with two degrees of freedom in a mounting in a housing and which may be deflected in different directions out of an initial position, the hand-grip being biased by a spring mechanism towards its initial position and sensor apparatus being provided to sense the different positions of the hand-grip and to generate an output which may be used to control machine and/or vehicle functions, characterized in that there is a housing cover (5) having its upper side directed towards the hand-grip, while on the underside there is pivotally mounted a cardan joint centre portion (6) on whose underside there is pivotally mounted a cardan joint inner portion (7), the underside of which is provided with spherical segments which are mounted in complementary bearing cup-portions provided on a receiving support (8).