US 11,859,710 B2
Control unit and method for a manual shift using a graphical user interface
Stephan Peters, Vaterstetten (DE); and Benjamin Sprengart, Unterschleissheim (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/637,855
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/077162
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 24, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/078476, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 128 260.8 (DE), filed on Oct. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0282785 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. F16H 59/02 (2006.01); B60K 20/08 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2006.01); B60K 37/06 (2006.01); F16H 59/08 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 59/0204 (2013.01) [B60K 20/08 (2013.01); B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60K 37/06 (2013.01); F16H 59/08 (2013.01); B60K 2370/115 (2019.05); B60K 2370/126 (2019.05); B60K 2370/145 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1438 (2019.05)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control unit for an automatic transmission of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises a mechanical gear selection operating element which enables a user of the vehicle to set different drive positions of the transmission by actuating the gear selection operating element, wherein the control unit is configured:
to determine that a drive position “L” has been set by the gear selection operating element; and
in response, to provide a graphical user interface on a screen of the vehicle, by way of which manual shifting of gears of the transmission is enabled, wherein:
the graphical user interface comprises an input menu with at least one menu item for bringing about a gear change;
the vehicle comprises a mechanical operating element which enables the user of the vehicle to select a menu item in the input menu; and
the mechanical operating element is a rotary pushbutton.