Motor vehicle having a retractable screen

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016159292-A1
Application number	US-201414906890-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 23, 2014
Priority date	Jul 26, 2013
Publication date	Jun 9, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A trim part of a motor vehicle has a gap into which a display device with a screen can be retracted into the interior of the trim part in a covered position. The screen projects into a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle in a use position by moving through the gap from the covered position with a pivot movement. The screen is suspended in the trim part by one or more coupling mechanisms supporting the pivot movement.

First claim

1 - 9 . (canceled)

10 . A motor vehicle having a passenger compartment with a trim part, the trim part having an interior and an exterior with a gap in the exterior, said motor vehicle comprising:
a display screen retracting into the interior of the trim part in a covered position and projecting into the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle in a use position by pivoting through the gap in the trim part; and at least one coupling mechanism supporting said display screen and enabling the pivoting thereof, said at least one coupling mechanism including
at least two pivot elements, each of the pivot elements having first and second ends with the first end mounted in a rotatable manner on the trim part, and
a carrier plate, mounted in a pivotable manner in the interior of the trim part at the second ends of the at least two pivot elements, providing a coupling element of said at least one coupling mechanism and having said display screen mounted in a rotationally fixed manner on the carrier plate, the carrier plate and said display screen being mechanically mounted in the trim part solely by the at least two pivot elements.

11 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein each coupling mechanism has four elements.

12 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 ,
further comprising at least one rotary or geared motor having a gear mechanism, and wherein at least one of the pivot elements is coupled in the rotatable manner to the trim part by the gear mechanism of the at least one rotary or geared motor, and as a result acts as a crank in the coupling mechanism.

13 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein said at least one coupling mechanism supporting said display screen is mounted in the trim part without a rail and a guide slot.

14 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the gap has a gap width measured between walls which delimit the gap, along a normal vector perpendicular to a display surface of said display screen in the use position, the gap width ranging between 1.0 and 1.5 times a thickness of said display screen measured along the normal vector.

15 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein said display screen has a side wall substantially closing the gap in the covered position.

16 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein a first dimension of the carrier plate in a longitudinal direction of the gap is not larger than a second dimension of said display screen in the longitudinal direction.

17 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein, as viewed from an observation point from which a display area of said display screen can be seen from the passenger compartment in the use position, all of said at least one coupling mechanism, provided for mounting said display screen in the trim part, is arranged behind said display screen without protruding beyond said display screen laterally along a transverse axis of the vehicle.

18 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein each of the at least two pivot elements have a center line extending linearly between the first and second ends.

19 . The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein each of the at least two pivot elements has
respective first and second pivot axes at the first and second ends separated by a pivot arm length, and an upper surface, closer to the trim part in the use position than in the covered position, containing at least one line segment at least as long as the pivot arm length.

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Wall Christian
• Richter Stefan

Classifications

• B60K35/60

  Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles (arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10) · CPC title

• B60K35/53

  Movable instruments, e.g. slidable · CPC title

• B60K35/22

  Display screens · CPC title

• B60K35/50

  Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle (B60K35/231 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60R2011/0005

  Dashboard · CPC title