Abstract: A switch arrangement for a control panel placed on the dashboard or a central console in a motor vehicle. The switch arrangement comprises a housing for at least one switch having an actuating element. The switch is located in a receptacle in the housing. A mask whose contour has a curvature and a recess can be mounted on the housing, through which recess an actuating element of the switch projects after the mask has been applied. The housing has at least two housing parts, with each housing part being associated with an area of mask. The side of housing parts associated with the mask is arranged approximately parallel to a plane surface that follows the curvature of corresponding areas of the mask.

Abstract: A modular switching-element block which comprises at least one base body having plug-in locations for switching elements, such as electrical switches, and is fitted with a base body which is split into a plurality of base-body modules which can be plugged into one another. In comparison with a common base body, this arrangement makes possible greater variability of the number of plug-in locations, with respect to freely selectable special fits with switching elements, and reduces the advance-provision cost for a standard fit.

Abstract: A control device for the control of stepping motors for the adjustment of a motor vehicle seat, including an adjustment of the seat depth, being the distance between the front edge of the seat surface and the backrest, for adaptation to different thigh lengths of the respective passengers. The control device comprises, in a preferred embodiment, at least one actuating element with two parts, that are displaceable independently of but parallel to each other, as well as first and second switches assigned to parts of the actuating element, respectively, wherein the first switches are provided to control at least the seat depth adjustment, while the second switches are provided to control at least the longitudinal seat adjustment.

Abstract: An actuating device is provided for closing and opening a door or lid lock and correspondingly switching a light on and off during the opening and closing of the door or lid. This actuating device also makes it possible to switch off the light permanently when the door or lid is open, because the switch is switchable indirectly per se as a result of movements of a rotary latch and can be switched manually into its switch-off position independently of the actuating device.

Abstract: A control unit for manually controlling six reversible electromechanical adjusting devices utilizing a single joy stick actuator which is rotatable to two positions from a neutral position tiltable in a first direction to two other positions from the neutral position and tiltable at right angles to the first direction to two further positions from the neutral position. At each of the six positions various switches are either opened or closed to provide a binary code output which is fed to a decoding and control circuit which operates selected one(s) of the six adjusting devices. In this manner three rear-view mirrors on a vehicle can be properly positioned by two adjusting devices rotating the mirrors along a right angled axis.