Abstract: A method for transferring control of a vehicle from automated vehicle control by a control unit to manual vehicle control by a driver by a control lever, wherein the control lever is used at least to accelerate, brake, and steer the vehicle, wherein there is also at least one first display screen for displaying driving information, including at least an actual speed and an actual trajectory of the vehicle and a speed and a trajectory based on the actual position of the control lever, and wherein automated vehicle control is transferred to manual vehicle control when the actual speed of the vehicle corresponds graphically to the speed based on the actual position of the control lever and the actual trajectory of the vehicle corresponds graphically to the trajectory based on the actual position of the control lever on the first display screen.

Abstract: A method for transferring control of a vehicle from automated vehicle control by a control unit to manual vehicle control by a driver by a control lever, wherein the control lever is used at least to accelerate, brake, and steer the vehicle, wherein there is also at least one first display screen for displaying driving information, including at least an actual speed and an actual trajectory of the vehicle and a speed and a trajectory based on the actual position of the control lever, and wherein automated vehicle control is transferred to manual vehicle control when the actual speed of the vehicle corresponds graphically to the speed based on the actual position of the control lever and the actual trajectory of the vehicle corresponds graphically to the trajectory based on the actual position of the control lever on the first display screen.

Abstract: A micro-mechanical component including a support element and a cantilever with integrated electrical functional element to which at least two electrical supply lines implemented as printed conductors on the cantilever are routed. The invention proposes to arrange at least one each of the supply lines on the two opposite flat surfaces of the cantilever and/or the support element. The functional element is supplied by the first supply line on a first flat surface, with the second supply line on the opposite flat surface serving as return line.

Abstract: The invention relates to a touch-sensitive display device with an integrated mechanical operating part for motor vehicles, in which a mechanical operating part (2) and a holding magnet (3) are provided. The operating part (2) is held by magnetic force on the surface of a touch-sensitive display device (1), whereby sensor elements (5) are provided under the surface of the display device (1), and that the switching positions of the operating part (2) can be determined by the sensor elements.

Abstract: A micro-mechanical component including a support element and a cantilever with integrated electrical functional element to which at least two electrical supply lines implemented as printed conductors on the cantilever are routed. The invention proposes to arrange at least one each of the supply lines on the two opposite flat surfaces of the cantilever and/or the support element. The functional element is supplied by the first supply line on a first flat surface, with the second supply line on the opposite flat surface serving as return line.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an SPM probe having a support element, a cantilever, and a scanning tip on an underside of the cantilever, and having a mark located on the top side of the cantilever opposite the scanning tip. The mark on the top side of the cantilever is located exactly opposite the scanning tip on the underside of the cantilever. This makes it possible to identify the exact position of the scanning tip in the scanning probe microscope from the upward-pointing top side of the cantilever, which significantly simplifies the alignment of the SPM probe. The support element with the cantilever may be prefabricated conventionally and the scanning tip and the mark are then produced on the cantilever in a self-aligning way by means of a particle-beam-induced material deposition based on a gas-induced process.

Abstract: An SPM probe with an elongated support element and a cantilever projecting beyond the front face of the support element and carrying a scanning tip, with the cantilever arranged at a front face side of the support element of the probe, protruding there from a front face side flank, and with the support element having an essentially trapezoidal cross-section with a longer and a shorter transverse edge at the face side flank, and also with critical corners at one of the transverse edges of the face side flank that are closest to a sample during the scanning process, wherein the support element has an elongated raised portion extending in the longitudinal direction of the support element and of the cantilever, with the raised portion having an essentially trapezoidal cross-section, and with the cantilever arranged on the face side on a narrow transverse edge of the raised portion of the support element, and with the raised portion with the cantilever arranged preferably at the longer transverse edge of the face

Abstract: The invention relates to an operating element for technical systems in vehicles, comprising four separately operable key elements (8, 9, 10, 11) and a turnably supported roller (2), which can be moved by compression perpendicular to its axis of rotation (18), whereby the four key elements (8, 9, 10, 11) are placed crosswise and the turnably supported roller (2) is in the middle between the crosswise-placed key elements (8, 9, 10, 11), whereby the axis of rotation (18) runs parallel to the plane of the key elements (8, 9, 10, 11), and the movability of the roller (2) is perpendicular to this plane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system in a vehicle for assisting a driver of a vehicle when reversing, having at least one sensor unit which detects objects within the surroundings to the rear of the vehicle, having a computing unit which is connected to the sensor unit and has the purpose of processing the detected objects, and having an actuator unit which is connected to the computing unit. According to the invention, the computing unit generates a virtual driving tube within which the vehicle can move backward without colliding with the detected objects. The actuator unit is a steering actuator which is actuated by the computing unit and has the purpose of outputting haptic information which informs the driver of the vehicle about the steering direction, which is to be adopted next for reverse travel within the driving tube.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an SPM probe having a support element, a cantilever, and a scanning tip on an underside of the cantilever, and having a mark located on the top side of the cantilever opposite the scanning tip. The mark on the top side of the cantilever is located exactly opposite the scanning tip on the underside of the cantilever. This makes it possible to identify the exact position of the scanning tip in the scanning probe microscope from the upward-pointing top side of the cantilever, which significantly simplifies the alignment of the SPM probe. The support element with the cantilever may be prefabricated conventionally and the scanning tip and the mark are then produced on the cantilever in a self-aligning way by means of a particle-beam-induced material deposition based on a gas-induced process.

Abstract: A screen-based vehicle control system in which the control arrangement (1) consists of a screen (2) and at least one mechanical control unit (3). The mechanical control unit is disposed to project at least in part into the display field of the screen and may be implemented such that relative positions or scales of the control unit my be represented on the screen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a touch-sensitive display device with an integrated mechanical operating part for motor vehicles, in which a mechanical operating part (2) and a holding magnet (3) are provided. The operating part (2) is held by magnetic force on the surface of a touch-sensitive display device (1), whereby sensor elements (5) are provided under the surface of the display device (1), and that the switching positions of the operating part (2) can be determined by the sensor elements.

Abstract: An SPM probe with an elongated support element and a cantilever projecting beyond the front face of the support element and carrying a scanning tip, with the cantilever arranged at a front face side of the support element of the probe, protruding there from a front face side flank, and with the support element having an essentially trapezoidal cross-section with a longer and a shorter transverse edge at the face side flank, and also with critical corners at one of the transverse edges of the face side flank that are closest to a sample during the scanning process, wherein the support element has an elongated raised portion extending in the longitudinal direction of the support element and of the cantilever, with the raised portion having an essentially trapezoidal cross-section, and with the cantilever arranged on the face side on a narrow transverse edge of the raised portion of the support element, and with the raised portion with the cantilever arranged preferably at the longer transverse edge of the face

Abstract: An arrangement has a computing unit which is connected to a memory unit, an operator control device and a display device. The computing unit displays, on the display device, a first operator control display which is read out from the memory unit and is composed of at least two display elements, evaluates an operator control operation which is performed by means of the operator control device, and reads out a second operator control display, assigned to the operator control operation, from the memory device. In order to improve the ability to perceive the relationship between the first and the second operator control displays, at least one of the display elements from the first operator control display is also contained in the second operator control display (150), the at least one display element in the first operator control display differing from the second operator control display in at least one of its display properties.

Abstract: An operator control device for operating at least one electronic device in a motor vehicle contains a display panel for displaying at least one predefined operator control menu of the electronic device compiled of selectable operator control functions, a turn and press switch for selecting and setting one of the operator control functions and a first menu switch for calling a first user-specific operator control menu. The user-specific operator control menu can be compiled by a user on an individual basis according to his wishes from a subset of the selectable operator control functions and the subset of the selectable operator control functions is indicated graphically on the display panel.

Abstract: Scanning probes are provided for alternative use in a scanning probe microscope. The scanning probes have micro cantilever beams of different lengths whose one end has a scanning tip for scanning a sample and whose other end has a holding element for the non-permanent attachment of the scanning probe to a support element secured in position on a probe holder, and where corresponding alignment elements are incorporated in the holding element and in the support element that align the holding element in automatically reproducible fashion relative to the probe holder when coupled with the support element. The distance between the scanning tip and a defined reference point of the holding element is constant in each case so that an alignment of the scanning probe in longitudinal direction is not necessary when the scanning probe is exchanged.

Abstract: A vehicle information system having a mode of operation for vehicle navigation and a mode of operation for telecommunication is presented. The system includes a database and a control and regulation unit that includes a processor configured for storing and executing control commands. The system further includes a display device connected to the control and regulation unit, an input apparatus connected to the control and regulation unit, and a data store which can store data records, image files, and control commands which can be stipulated for the data records.

Abstract: An arrangement has a computing unit which is connected to a memory unit, an operator control device and a display device. The computing unit displays, on the display device, a first operator control display which is read out from the memory unit and is composed of at least two display elements, evaluates an operator control operation which is performed by means of the operator control device, and reads out a second operator control display, assigned to the operator control operation, from the memory device. In order to improve the ability to perceive the relationship between the first and the second operator control displays, at least one of the display elements from the first operator control display is also contained in the second operator control display (150), the at least one display element in the first operator control display differing from the second operator control display in at least one of its display properties.

Abstract: Information system for controlling electronic devices with a hierarchically structured operator control menu An information system for controlling at least one electronic device with a computing unit which is connected to a memory unit, a control device and a display device, the computing unit reading out, from the memory unit, an operator control menu which is a hierarchically structured operator control menu comprising at least two menu levels, each with at least two menu elements, displaying at least one of the menu levels as the current menu level on the display device, reading in a menu element selected from the current menu level by means of the operator control device, displaying the menu level which is subordinate to the menu element as the menu level which is now current, and graphically indicating the depth of the current menu level within the operator control menu on the display device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system in a vehicle for assisting a driver of a vehicle when reversing, having at least one sensor unit which detects objects within the surroundings to the rear of the vehicle, having a computing unit which is connected to the sensor unit and has the purpose of processing the detected objects, and having an actuator unit which is connected to the computing unit. According to the invention, the computing unit generates a virtual driving tube within which the vehicle can move backward without colliding with the detected objects. The actuator unit is a steering actuator which is actuated by the computing unit and has the purpose of outputting haptic information which informs the driver of the vehicle about the steering direction, which is to be adopted next for reverse travel within the driving tube.