US 12,241,761 B2
Device element comprising an operating component
Marc Oliver Eckert, Bodenkirchen (DE); and Ulrich Spohde, Bodenkirchen (DE)
Assigned to BULTHAUP GMBH & CO. KG, Bodenkirchen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/048,057
Filed by BULTHAUP GMBH & CO. KG, Bodenkirchen (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 16, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/059831
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/201941, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 108 963.5 (DE), filed on Apr. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0293578 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. G01D 5/14 (2006.01); F24C 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC G01D 5/145 (2013.01) [F24C 7/081 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A furniture element having a control element, wherein
the furniture element is designed to carry out at least one procedure;
the control element is designed such that the procedure of the furniture element is carried out in dependence on a position of the control element;
wherein
the control element is freely positionable and able to be integrated at any point on a surface of the furniture element; and
a sensor system is present that detects at least one property of the control element and controls the procedure of the furniture element in dependence on this detection,
the control element having a plurality of surfaces that differ to the extent that which surface of the control element faces or faces away from the sensor system can be recognized by means of the sensor system.