Apparatus for operating AVN monitor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9555709-B2
Application number	US-201314079247-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 13, 2013
Priority date	Jul 5, 2013
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

An apparatus for operating an AVN (Audio, Video and Navigation) monitor for a vehicle may include a belt guider which is installed in an accommodation space of a dashboard and around which a belt, moving in a longitudinal direction of the belt guider, is wound, a guide rail fixed to the belt guider and extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt guider, a monitor hinge connected to the belt and engaged to the guide rail and an end of a connection bracket so as to move along the guide rail, wherein the connection bracket is connected to the AVN monitor, and a driving force transmission gear engaged with the belt to move the belt in the longitudinal direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus with an AVN (Audio, Video and Navigation) monitor for operating the AVN monitor for a vehicle comprising a dashboard, the apparatus comprising:
a belt guider which is configured to be installed in an accommodation space of the dashboard; a belt wound around the belt guider in a longitudinal direction of the belt guider;
a guide rail fixed to the belt guider and extending in the longitudinal direction of the belt guider;
a monitor hinge connected to the belt and engaged to the guide rail and an end of a connection bracket so as to move along the guide rail, wherein the connection bracket is connected to the AVN monitor; and
a driving force transmission gear engaged with the belt to move the belt in the longitudinal direction, wherein the monitor hinge includes:
an outer hinge moving along the guide rail;
an inner hinge inserted in the outer hinge; and
a hinge pin installed to pass through the outer hinge and the inner hinge, wherein the outer hinge includes a rail groove which is formed in a bottom surface and faces down and into which the guide rail is inserted, and a hinge groove which is formed, in a position corresponding to the rail groove, in a top surface and faces up, wherein the inner hinge is inserted in the hinge groove of the outer hinge, wherein the hinge pin is installed to pass through the outer hinge and the inner hinge so that the outer hinge and the inner hinge are securely fastened with each other, and the hinge pin allows an end of the connection bracket to be rotatably connected to the outer hinge, and

wherein the belt is securely fastened with the monitor hinge and the belt is inserted between the outer hinge and the inner hinge.

2. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a body bracket including a support portion connected to the belt guider and supporting the AVN monitor to allow the AVN monitor to move along a non-linear curved path so as to be extended out of the accommodation space of the dashboard when the monitor hinge moves along the guide rail, and prevents the AVN monitor from collapsing.

3. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 1 , further comprising: a tension module installed on the belt guider, the tension module elastically supporting a bottom surface of the AVN monitor in an open state in which the AVN monitor is configured to be fully extended out of the accommodation space of the dashboard.

4. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 3 , wherein the belt guider includes:
a guide plate configured to be extended in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and to be installed in the accommodation space of the dashboard;
a driving pulley which is provided at an end of the guide plate, is rotatably installed via a main shaft, and rotates by a driving force which is transmitted from a motor via the driving force transmission gear;
a driven pulley which is rotatably installed at a remaining end of the guide plate; and the belt which is wound around the driving pulley and the driven pulley.

5. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 4 , wherein the belt guider further includes:
an idling roller and a pair of tension-adjusting rollers which are rotatably connected to the guide plate and installed between the driving pulley and the driven pulley, wherein the idling roller and the pair of tension-adjusting rollers contact the belt in order to adjust tension of the belt.

6. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 4 , wherein the driving force transmission gear includes:
a worm gear and a helical gear which are rotated by the driving force of the motor;
a driving gear which rotates by receiving a driving force from the helical gear so that the driving gear rotates in the same direction as the helical gear; and
a driven gear which meshes with the driving gear and is connected to an end of the main shaft.

7. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 6 ,
wherein the worm gear and a shaft of the motor are combined; and
wherein the motor is fixedly installed in the accommodation space and disposed at a side of the belt guider.

8. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 1 , wherein the connection bracket is connected to a center position of a lower end of the AVN monitor.

9. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 1 , wherein a metal wire is embedded in the belt so that tension change of the belt attributable to external temperature change is minimized.

10. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 1 , wherein the tension module includes:
a tension housing which is fixed to the guide plate and has an operation groove therein;
a tension pin which is installed to move along the operation groove, and an end of which protrudes from the tension housing and is in contact with a bottom surface of the outer hinge; and
a tension spring which is installed in the operation groove and respective ends of which are supported by the tension housing and the tension pin, the tension spring giving elastic force to the tension pin so that the tension pin presses a bottom surface of the outer hinge.

11. The apparatus with the AVN monitor according to claim 10 , wherein an end of the tension pin which is in contact with the bottom surface of the outer hinge has an arc shape so that the bottom surface of the outer hinge smoothly moves over the end of the tension pin.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp
• Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Young Ju
• Lee Min Young
• Kim Jong Hyup
• Lee Bock Cheol
• Chang Yong Soo
• Jung Chan Woong
• Lee Kyung Ho
• Oh Min Geun

Classifications

• B60R11/0258 Primary

  for navigation systems · CPC title

• 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

• B60R2011/0005

  Dashboard · CPC title

• B60R2011/0084

  with adjustment by linear movement in their operational position · CPC title