US 11,987,127 B2
Actuating device and method for operating an actuating device
Tobias Konrad, Böblingen (DE); and Martin Lindmayer, Sulz (DE)
Assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/769,497
Filed by MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/077527
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/073888, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 007 271.5 (DE), filed on Oct. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0241975 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); B60K 35/10 (2024.01); E05B 17/22 (2006.01); E05B 81/64 (2014.01); B60K 35/29 (2024.01); B60K 35/60 (2024.01)
CPC B60K 35/10 (2024.01) [E05B 17/226 (2013.01); E05B 81/64 (2013.01); B60K 35/29 (2024.01); B60K 35/60 (2024.01); B60K 2360/197 (2024.01); B60K 2360/788 (2024.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A road motor vehicle, comprising:
a functional component configured to provide a vehicle function; and
an actuating device, comprising
a display actuation device arranged on the road motor vehicle and configured to control the functional component, wherein
the display actuation device comprises display means configured to provide a visually detectable function actuation element,
the visually detectable function actuation element is connected to the functional component and is configured, upon actuation, to activate the vehicle function,
the display actuation device further comprises a release device configured to actuate the display means between a blocking position blocking the actuation of the visually detectable function actuation element and an active position allowing the actuation of the visually detectable function actuation element, wherein in the blocking position the display means is free of the visually detectable function actuation element; and
a key element configured to cooperate with the release device to actuate the display means into the active position,
wherein the visually detectable function actuation element is a first visually detectable function actuation element, and wherein the display means is configured to provide one of a plurality of additional visually detectable function actuation elements depending upon frequency of operation of each of the plurality of additional visually detectable function actuation elements.