Patent ID: 7944335

Claim:
An operating element, in particular a joystick, with tilt haptics for a motor vehicle, the operating element comprising: a tiltably supported lever with one primary lever arm and at least one secondary lever arm; a handle arranged at the primary lever arm; at least one mechanical limit stop for delimiting a range of motion of the secondary lever arm; at least one pair of permanent magnets, wherein one magnet of a permanent magnet pair is provided on the secondary lever arm and the other magnet is located in a fixed position in the operating element in such a manner that unlike poles of the magnets are located opposite and at a distance apart from one another when the operating element is in a center position, the center position being a position of rest, only one position of rest being provided; and the at least one pair of permanent magnets returning the operating element to the center position when the operating element is moved out of the center position and released, wherein the pair of permanent magnets and the mechanical limit stop are arranged in a way that the force needed to excurse the lever out of the center position initially rises with growing excursion from the center position and thereafter, once a certain excursion is reached, falls with growing excursion from the center position until the secondary lever arm contacts the mechanical limit stop and thereafter rises with growing excursion, and the pair of permanent magnets and the mechanical limit stop are arranged in a way that a situation where, when the lever is in contact with the limit stop the permanent magnets are in a position relative to another in which like poles repel one another biasing the lever further out of the center position is prevented.