MUMBAI, India, Aug. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517073624 A) filed by Inventus Engineering Gmbh, St Anton am Arlberg, Austria, on Aug. 1, for 'device, in particular a steering control unit, with a moveable operating element and an actuator unit, and method for operating a device.'
Inventor(s) include Schmidle, Tobias.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 22, under issue no. 34/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a device (100), in particular a steering control unit, with a moveable operating element (11) and with an actuator unit (10) for the targeted influencing of the movability of the operating element (11). The actuator unit (10) comprises a magnetorheological braking unit (1) and an electric motor (6). A calibration device (7) is designed and configured to coordinate the braking torque of the braking unit (1) and the torque of the motor (6) as part of an automated calibration routine, and to place the braking unit (1) in a defined test state, and, by means of the motor (6), to generate at least one test torque acting against the braking unit (1) and to register at least one characteristic variable characterising the effect of the test torque on the movability of the operating element (11)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 22, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/051393.
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