US 12,286,820 B2
Modular actuating device, vehicle, and method
Sven Hild, Hagen (DE); Steffen Leib, Ratingen (DE); Yevgen Dementyev, Wuppertal (DE); Igor Alexander Gorenzweig, Wuppertal (DE); and Andreas Gornik, Gevelsberg (DE)
Assigned to Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG, Velbert (DE)
Appl. No. 17/794,563
Filed by Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG, Velbert (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/052276
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/156187, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 102 897.0 (DE), filed on Feb. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0066181 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. E05B 81/64 (2014.01); E05F 15/73 (2015.01); G01V 3/08 (2006.01); G01V 3/10 (2006.01); B60R 25/24 (2013.01)
CPC E05B 81/64 (2013.01) [E05F 15/73 (2015.01); G01V 3/088 (2013.01); G01V 3/10 (2013.01); B60R 25/24 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a vehicle part with a cover element and
an actuating device for triggering a function of the vehicle by a user, having an electronics unit which has a sensor unit for detecting an actuation action of the user for triggering the function of the vehicle, an electronics outer side on which the user's actuation action can be detected by the sensor unit, and an electronics inner side which is opposite the electronics outer side, and
a first sleeve section for protecting the electronics inner side of the electronics unit and a second sleeve section for protecting the outside of the electronics unit,
wherein the first and second sleeve sections form a closed sleeve that is modularly disposed on the cover element,
wherein an elastic intermediate element is arranged in an intermediate range between the cover element and the actuating device, the actuating device being prestressed against the intermediate element or the actuating device being fastened to the cover element by the intermediate element.