SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECONFIGURABLE INPUT DEVICES FOR A WORK VEHICLE

• Main Authors: Silber, Franz-Josef, Holton, Eric, Salzman, Eran, Putz, Markus
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.05.2018
• Subjects: BLASTING; DETAILS OF FLUID-PRESSURE SYSTEMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DREDGING; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS; FLUID-PRESSURE ACTUATORS, e.g. SERVO-MOTORS; FOUNDATIONS; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMSTHEREOF; HEATING; HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; HYDRAULICS OR PNEUMATICS IN GENERAL; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; SOIL SHIFTING; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHERARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; SYSTEMS ACTING BY MEANS OF FLUIDS IN GENERAL; WEAPONS

A system for providing reconfigurable input devices for a work vehicle may generally include a plurality of input devices configured to receive operator inputs associated with controlling the operation of a plurality of components. Each input device may include a light source. In addition, the system may include a controller communicatively coupled to the input devices. The controller may be configured to store an input device assignment for each of the components that assigns each input device to a respective one of the components. The controller may also be configured to transmit a control signal to each input device that causes the light source of each input device to produce colored light, wherein a specific color of the colored light produced by the light source of each input device provides a visual indicator of the input device assignment for each of the components.