Patent ID: 6988050

Claim:
A setting device for a motor vehicle with a mechanically adjustable component, said setting device comprising: a sensor that measures positions of the component, with a neutral position of the component being defined as a starting position; said component designed as an operating element provided with a reset device which, upon release of said operating element, moves said operating element into said starting position; and an electronic evaluating unit, connected to said sensor and receiving sensor signals, a sensor signal value that corresponds to the neutral position being stored in said electronic evaluating unit as an initial value, the neutral position of the component being monitored as the motor vehicle is operating and, when the sensor signals deviate significantly in the neutral position from the initial value, a current sensor signal value being stored as a new initial value; said evaluating unit recognizing a setting cycle and storing a prolonged stationary dwell position of the operating element in an initial range of the neutral position and storing a departure from the initial range, and an approximately exact return into the stored stationary dwell position and the prolonged dwelling therein, as the actual neutral position.