Planar element of interior or exterior trim panel of motor vehicle

Abstract

The invention relates to a planar element (1) of an interior panel, for example of a center console in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, having an opening (3) which can be closed flush with the visible side (2) surface of the planar element (1) by means of six closing elements (5). The planar element (1) has an inner element (32) which, in the closed position of the closure (4), is in a recessed position on the rear side of the closure element (5) opposite the visible side (2) and, in the open position of the closure (4), can be moved into a raised position in the opening (3) of the planar element (1) or can be moved out of the opening (3) on the visible side (2).

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to a planar element for an interior or exterior panel of a motor vehicle having the features of the preamble of claim 1 Background Art

[0002] The interior trim of a motor vehicle is, for example, an instrument panel, a center console, a door interior trim, a trim on the rear side of a backrest of a front seat or the like in the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle or is part of such an interior trim.

[0003] Exterior panels of motor vehicles are in particular body parts of motor vehicles.

[0004] Publication DE 102012108962 A1 discloses a passenger control unit for a land vehicle, a water vehicle or an aircraft, which has a rectangular plate as a planar element and further has two air outlets that can be closed by a rotatable diaphragm or an aperture throttle valve (Irisblenden), wherein the rotatable diaphragm has the form of a four-blade propeller. Summary of the invention

[0005] The object of the present invention is to provide a planar element for an interior or exterior panel of a motor vehicle, which has a closable opening and a functional part.

[0006] According to the invention, this object is achieved by the features of claim 1 .

[0007] The planar element according to the invention has a planar visible side, a rear side opposite the visible side, an opening and a movable closure with at least three closing elements which together close the opening of the planar element in a closed position and completely or at least partially open the opening in an open position. "Plane", "planar shape" and "planar element" are to be understood as roughly two-dimensional or essentially two-dimensional objects whose thickness is negligible relative to their length and / or width or their area, or whose thickness is only a small part of their dimensions (in particular their largest dimension in their area), preferably less than 10% of their dimensions.

[0008] A planar element is understood here to be a part of an interior panel or an exterior panel, but can also be understood to be an additional element which supplements the interior panel or the exterior panel.

[0009] A planar element is understood here to be a part of an interior panel or an exterior panel, but can also be understood to be an additional element which supplements the interior panel or the exterior panel.

[0010] For interior panels, the visible side of the planar element is its surface facing the passenger compartment and visible to vehicle occupants in the passenger compartment. For exterior panels, the visible side is its surface visible from the outside of the motor vehicle. “Open” means that, looking at the planar element perpendicularly to the visible side, the opening is completely or at least partially, that is to say, in particular at least 50% and preferably at least 70%, 85% or 90% of the area of ​​the opening is unoccupied.

[0011] When opening, that is, when the closure moves from the closed position to the open position, at least three closing elements of the closure of the planar element according to the present invention move away from the imaginary axis and move apart from each other, so that they open the opening of the planar element. When opening, the closing element moves in the radial plane of the imaginary axis or also moves in a manner that is acutely angled with the radial plane of the imaginary axis. "Moving in the radial plane of the axis" can also be understood as the movement of the closing element parallel to or approximately parallel to the planar element, parallel to or approximately parallel to the visible side or parallel to or approximately parallel to the back side of the planar element. The closing element is preferably located behind the back side of the planar element in the open position, that is, on the side of the back side that is opposite to the visible side. The imaginary axis particularly passes through the opening, particularly through the center of the opening, or passes between at least three closing elements in the closed position. In particular, in the closed position, the axis extends perpendicular to the tangential surface of the visible side of at least three closing elements.

[0012] Although the invention does not exclude a gas-tight closure, it does not provide that the closing element closes the opening in a gas-tight, ie fluid-tight, manner in the closed position. Complete or substantial optical closure or covering of the opening of the planar element is provided.

[0013] The planar element according to the invention has an inner element which, in the closed position of the closure, is located in a recessed position on the back side of the closure. That is, when the closure is closed, the inner element is covered by the closure in the recessed position. When the closure is opened, the inner element can be moved into a raised position in which it is located in the opening of the planar element or protrudes from the opening on the visible side of the planar element. The inner element has, for example, a loudspeaker, an operating element, one or more displays, a fuel filler or a charging socket for an electric vehicle, which are easily accessible due to the raising of the inner element and are more accessible than in a position in the recessed opening.

[0014] The dependent claims contain advantageous embodiments and developments of the invention specified in claim 1 .

[0015] One design of the invention provides a second control curve, which moves the closing element into the open position when the rotary drive is in progress, and a third control curve, which moves the internal element from the recessed position into the raised position when the rotary drive is in progress. The first control curve is not necessarily present. This design of the invention enables the closure to be opened and, in the case of an opposite direction of rotation, the closure to be closed, and enables the internal element to be raised and lowered by means of a rotary drive.

[0016] The control curve is preferably shaped and arranged so that, in the rotational drive, it first opens the closure in a first rotational direction from the closed position and then raises the inner element. By rotating in the opposite direction, the inner element first descends again and then closes the closure again.

[0017] A preferred embodiment of the invention provides that in the closed position at least three closing elements are flush with the visible side surface of the planar element. "Flush" here means that the visible side of the closing element in the closed position has no offset perpendicular to the visible side of the planar element in the area surrounding the opening and preferably continues flush with the visible side of the planar element, so that the opening of the planar element closed by the closure is not or barely perceptible visually and / or tactilely.

[0018] In this embodiment of the invention, at least three closing elements of the closure of the opening of the planar element according to the invention are particularly movably guided so that when opening, the at least three closing elements are first moved from a closed position (in this case flush with the visible side surface of the planar element) into an intermediate position in a first movement phase and from the intermediate position into an open position in a second movement phase. Closing is carried out in the opposite way, that is, the at least three closing elements of the closure are moved from the open position into the closed position. In the first movement phase, the at least three closing elements are moved along or substantially along an imaginary axis from a closed position flush with the visible side surface of the planar element into an intermediate position in which the closing elements are located behind the back side of the planar element. "Behind the back side of the planar element" means that the at least three closing elements can be moved separately from each other from the intermediate position into the open position on the back side of the planar element. In a second movement phase, at least three closing elements of the closure of the planar element according to the invention move away from the axis and apart from each other until they are in an open position behind the back side of the planar element and are completely or at least partially or mostly outside the opening of the planar element when viewed through the opening from the visible side.

[0019] A design of the present invention provides a first guide for the first movement phase of the closing element and a second guide for the second movement phase, wherein the first guide can movably guide the second guide, or vice versa. The planar element according to the present invention can have a common first guide and / or a common second guide for each of at least three closing elements or one or more, or can have its own first guide and / or its own second guide for each of at least three closing elements. The first guide movably guides the closing element from the closed position to the intermediate position, and vice versa, and the second guide guides the closing element from the intermediate position to the open position, and vice versa. The third guide movably guides the internal element from the lowered position to the raised position, and vice versa.

[0020] One embodiment of the invention provides a guide sleeve as a first guide for the closing element in the first movement phase, which guide sleeve can be axially moved in or on the first sleeve. The first sleeve and / or the guide sleeve can additionally be rotatable. The first sleeve or the guide sleeve can form a third guide in or on which the internal element is movably guided.

[0021] The first control curve preferably converts a rotation into a translation, so that the rotary drive moves at least three closing elements of the closure from the closed position into the intermediate position, and vice versa. This design of the invention enables the closing elements to be moved by the rotary drive in the first movement phase. During further rotation, the second control curve preferably moves at least three closing elements from the intermediate position away from each other into the open position, and in the continuous further rotation, the third control curve raises the internal element between the at least three closing elements in the open position. The closure is closed in an inverted order and in an opposite direction of movement by a rotary drive with an opposite direction of rotation.

[0022] The features and feature combinations, implementation schemes and designs of the present invention mentioned above in the specification, as well as the features and feature combinations mentioned below in the description of the drawings and / or drawn in the drawings, can be used not only in the combination given or drawn accordingly, but also in any other combination in principle, or can also be used individually. An implementation scheme of the present invention that does not have all the features of a dependent claim is feasible. A single feature of a claim can also be replaced by other disclosed features or feature combinations. The following implementation scheme of the present invention is feasible, which does not have all the features of one or more embodiments, but has any part of the characteristic features of an embodiment in principle, and if necessary, combines one, more or all features of one or more other embodiments. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0023] The present invention is further explained below with the aid of two embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

[0024] Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a planar element according to the invention in a closed position;

[0025] Figure 2 Shown in the middle position from Figure 1 Planar elements;

[0026] Figure 3 Shown in the open position from Figure 1 and Figure 2 Planar elements;

[0027] Figure 4 Shown is a diagram from a Figures 1 to 3 Planar elements;

[0028] Figure 5 Shown from Figures 1 to 4 An exploded view of a planar element;

[0029] Figure 6 Shown in accordance with Figure 1 The closed position of Figures 1 to 5 A perspective view of a component of a planar element;

[0030] Figure 7 Shown in accordance with Figure 2 The middle position from Figure 6 Components of the planar element:

[0031] Figure 8 Shown in accordance with Figure 3 From the open position of Figure 6 and Figure 7 Components of planar elements;

[0032] Fig. 9 Shown with the Figure 4 The raised position of the internal components comes from Figures 6 to 8 Components of planar elements;

[0033] Fig.10 A perspective view showing a second embodiment of a planar element according to the invention in a closed position, and

[0034] Fig.11 The partially open position between the intermediate position and the open position is shown. Fig.10 Components of planar elements. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0035] In principle, identical parts are provided with the same reference symbols in the figures.

[0036] exist Figures 1 to 5 The planar element 1 according to the invention shown in the figure is part of an interior trim panel (not shown further) of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. The planar element 1 can be, for example, part of an instrument panel, part of a center console, part of a door interior trim panel of a passenger compartment or part of a trim panel on the back side of a backrest of a front seat in the passenger compartment. In an embodiment, the planar element 1 is part of the upper side of a center console of the passenger compartment. The planar element 1 can also be designed as an exterior trim panel or part of an exterior trim panel of a motor vehicle, in particular as part of the body of a motor vehicle.

[0037] The planar element 1 is plate-shaped and can be, for example, flat or curved or have sub-surfaces arranged at different angles relative to one another. This list is exemplary and not exhaustive.

[0038] The visible side 2 of the planar element 1 is a two-dimensional surface, which can also be referred to as planar. The visible side 2 is the surface of the planar element 1 that faces the passenger compartment and is visible to vehicle passengers in the passenger compartment. In the case of an exterior panel, the visible side 2 is, for example, the outer side of a body part that is visible when looking at the motor vehicle from the outside.

[0039] The planar element 1 has an opening 3 which can be closed by means of a closure element 4. The closure element 4 is multi-part and has, according to the invention, at least three, in this exemplary embodiment six, closing elements 5. Figures 1 to 5 In the embodiment, the opening 3 is hexagonal, having the shape of a regular hexagon, wherein other shapes of the opening 3 are also possible. Figure 1 A planar element 1 is shown with a closure 4 in a closed position, in which the closure element 5 of the closure 4 together closes the opening 3 of the planar element 1. In the closed position, the visible side 6 of the closure element 5 is flush with the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 in the region around the opening 3. "Flush" means that in the closed position, the visible side 6 of the closure element 5 does not have an offset perpendicular to the visible side 2, 6 relative to the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 in the region around the opening 3, but in the closed position, the visible side 6 of the closure element 5 is in a plane that has the region of the planar element 1 around the opening 3 or is tangential to the region of the planar element 1 around the opening 3. As a result, the closure element 5 of the closure 4 closes the opening 3 in the closed position, so that the opening 3 in the planar element 1 is not or is hardly perceptible visually and / or tactilely. Although the closure 4 can close the opening 3 in a hermetically sealed manner in the closed position. However, in this embodiment, the closure 4 is not hermetically sealed. The visible side 6 of the closing element 5 is that surface of the closing element which, in the closed position, faces the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle and is visible to a vehicle occupant in the passenger compartment.

[0040] The closure 4 is opened in two movement phases, wherein in a first movement phase the closing element 5 is opened from Figure 1 Move to the closed position shown in Figure 2 and in the second movement phase moves from the intermediate position to Figure 3 Open position shown in . Closing is done in the opposite manner. Figures 6 to 9 Shown in the closed position ( Figure 6 ) in the middle position ( Figure 7 ), in the open position ( Figure 8 ) and with the inner element 32 in the raised position ( Fig. 9 ) of a planar element 1.

[0041] For opening, in a first movement phase, the closing element 5 is moved along or parallel to the imaginary axis 7 from a closed position flush with the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 in the area around the opening 3 to below or behind the rear side 9 of the planar element 1. Figure 2 , the imaginary axis extends through the middle of the opening 3 of the planar element 1 at a perpendicular or acute angle to the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 or to the visible side 6 of the closing element 5 in the closed position, or through the center of the opening 3 at a distance from the edge 8 of the opening 3. The rear side 9 is that side of the planar element 1 which is opposite the visible side 2. In the intermediate position, the closing element 5 is always still located in the opening 3 of the planar element 1, viewed perpendicularly to the visible side 2, but can be moved outwards on the rear side 9 parallel to the visible side 2 and away from the opening 3.

[0042] In the second movement phase, the closing element 5 of the closure element 4 moves outwards from the middle position away from the imaginary axis 7 through the opening 3 of the planar element 1 on the rear side 9 of the planar element 1 to the rear side 9 of the planar element 1. Figure 3 . The movement is parallel to an imaginary radial plane of the axis 7. In the open position, looking perpendicularly at the visible side 2 at the opening 3 of the planar element 1, the closing element 5 is located outside the opening 3, so that it opens the opening 3. It is also possible that the closing element 5 does not completely open the opening 3 in the open position, but rather extends slightly into the opening 3 when viewed perpendicularly to the visible side 2 (not shown). In the open position, the closing element 5 is located behind or below the rear side 9 of the planar element 1, in this embodiment, in the open position, the visible side 6 of the closing element 5 faces the rear side 9 of the planar element 1.

[0043] The planar element 1 according to the invention has a first guide 10 which guides the closing element 5 from the closed position into the intermediate position in a first movement phase along the axis 7 or parallel to the axis 7. In this embodiment, the planar element 1 has a first guide 10 for all closing elements 5, which jointly guide the closing elements 5. The invention does not exclude embodiments with a plurality of first guides which guide a plurality of closing elements 5 or respectively only one closing element 5 (not shown).

[0044] In this embodiment, the first guide member 10 is designed as a sliding guide member. Figure 5 As can be seen in the exploded view of FIG. 1 , the first guide element 10 has a first sleeve 11, which is cylindrical and tubular in this embodiment, and which is guided in an axially displaceable manner and, in this embodiment, is additionally rotatable on a guide sleeve 12, which is also cylindrical and tubular in this embodiment. The guide sleeve 12 is Figures 1 to 4 is covered in and Figure 5 The common axis of the two sleeves 11, 12 in this embodiment coincides with the imaginary axis 7. Other embodiments of the first guide element 10 are also possible within the framework of the invention.

[0045] The first sleeve 11 has a groove as a first control curve 15, which has an inclined section 16 with an inclination and a non-inclination section 18 extending in the circumferential direction without an inclination ( Figure 5 The first sleeve 11 has a plurality of—in this exemplary embodiment, three—equidistant first control curves 15 , which are arranged in the first sleeve 11 so as to be offset relative to one another in the circumferential direction.

[0046] The guide sleeve 12 has a first pin 19 which projects outwardly from the guide sleeve 12 ( Figure 5 ) and engage in the first control curve 15, so that when the first pin 19 is located in the inclined section 16 of the first control curve 15, an axial movement of the guide sleeve 12 relative to the first sleeve 11 occurs when the first sleeve 11 rotates relative to the guide sleeve 12. If the first pin 19 is located in the non-slope section 18 of the first control curve 15, the rotation of the first sleeve 11 does not move the guide sleeve 12.

[0047] The first sleeve 11 has a first radial flange 20, and the guide sleeve 12 has a substantially identical second radial flange 21, on which the closing element 5 of the closure 4 is arranged, so that the closing element 5 together with the guide sleeve 12 can be moved along or axially parallel to the imaginary axis 7 in a first movement phase from a closed position flush with the surface of the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 into an intermediate position below or behind the rear side 9 of the planar element 1. As described above, this movement is produced by a rotation of the first sleeve 11 relative to the guide sleeve 12.

[0048] The second radial flange 21 of the guide sleeve 12 has, for each closing element 5, a guide groove 22 tangential to the axis 7, in which the closing element 5 is displaceably guided by means of two pins 23, 24, respectively. The guide groove 22 forms a sliding guide which guides the closing element 5 tangentially to the hexagonal edge 8 of the opening 3. The pins 23, 24 are arranged on an imaginary straight line parallel to a straight outer edge 25 of the closing element 5 which, in the closed position of the closing element 5, bears internally against the hexagonal edge 8 of the opening 3 of the planar element 1 or in any case faces the edge 8 of the opening 3, so that the closing element 5 can be moved away from the axis 7 for opening along or parallel to its outer edge 25 in a radial plane to the axis 7 and in the direction of the axis 7 for closing until the inner edges 17 of the closing element 5 facing each other abut against each other in the closed position.

[0049] The first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 has a Z-shaped groove for each closing element 5, which is referred to here as a second control curve 26. The second control curve 26 has an inner section 27 extending in the circumferential direction, an outer section 28 extending in the circumferential direction and an intermediate section 29 which connects the inner section 27 and the outer section 28 and extends radially in this embodiment. The guide groove 22 in the second radial flange 21 and the second control curve 26 in the first radial flange 20 are arranged and shaped so that they intersect each other, wherein when the radial flanges 20, 21 are twisted relative to each other by means of the guide groove 22 and the second control curve 26, the intersection point of the guide groove 22 and the second control curve 26 moves along the guide groove 22 and the second control curve 26. A corresponding one of the two pins 23 of each closing element 5 is a long pin 23 which passes through the guide groove 22 in the second radial flange 21 and engages in the second control curve 26 in the first radial flange 20, so that when the two radial flanges 20, 21 rotate relative to each other, the closing elements 5 are pushed away from each other from the axis 7 and pushed together in the case of opposite rotation directions.

[0050] The other pin 24 of the closing element 5 is a short pin 24 which engages only in the guide groove 22 in the second radial flange 21 of the guide sleeve 12 and does not project into the second control curve 26 in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 .

[0051] exist Figure 1 and Figure 6 In the closed position shown in FIG. 4 , the first pin 19 of the guide sleeve 12 is located in a support section 41 of the first control curve 15 , which is connected to the end of the inclined section 16 of the first control curve 15 facing away from the flat section 18 .

[0052] The first control curve 15, the guide groove 22 and the second control curve 26 are shaped and arranged so that Figure 1 and Figure 6 , when the first sleeve 11 is rotated relative to the guide sleeve 12 in the first rotational direction, the first pin 19 of the guide sleeve 12 passes from the support section 41 into the inclined section 16 of the first control curve 15, wherein the inclination of the inclined section 16 produces a movement of the guide sleeve 12 together with the second radial flange 21 and the closing element 5 arranged on the second radial flange 21 from the closed position flush with the visible side 5 of the planar element 1 to the closed position. Figure 2 and Figure 7 , in which the closing element 5 is still located in the opening 3 of the planar element 1, but is above, behind or below the back side 9 of the planar element 1. This is the first movement phase. In the first movement phase, the long pin 23 of the closing element 5 is located in the inner section 27 of the second control curve 26 in the second radial flange 21, which extends in the circumferential direction without a radial component, so that the closing element 5 does not move radially relative to the axis 7.

[0053] When the first sleeve 11 continues to rotate relative to the guide sleeve 12 in the first rotation direction, the first pin 19 of the guide sleeve 12 reaches the flat section 18 of the first control curve 15 in the first sleeve 11, so that the guide sleeve 12 together with the closing element 5 arranged on its second radial flange 21 does not move along the axis 7. As described above, the closing element 5 moves outward from the intermediate position to the inner side. Figure 3 and Figure 8 This is the second movement phase.

[0054] The pins 23 , 24 of the closing element 5 engaging in the guide groove 22 in the second radial flange 21 and the guide groove 22 together form a second sliding guide as a second guide 30 of the closing element 5 for guiding the closing element 5 from the intermediate position into the open position and vice versa.

[0055] The first sleeve 11 is driven in rotation by an electric motor / gear motor (not visible in the drawing), which is arranged outside the first sleeve 11 and has a pinion that meshes with a circumferential toothing (not visible in the drawing) on ​​the outer circumference of the first sleeve 11.

[0056] A pin 31 projects from the rear side 9 of the planar element 1 perpendicularly to the planar element 1 and parallel to the axis 7, on which the guide sleeve 12 is movably guided along the axis 7 at its second radial flange 21, so that the guide sleeve 12 is held in a rotationally fixed manner and the distance between the second radial flange 21 and the rear side 9 of the planar element 1 is variable. This also makes it possible for the closing element 5 of the closure part 4, which is arranged on the second radial flange 21, to have a variable distance from the rear side 9 of the planar element 1, so that a first movement phase of the closing element 5 can be achieved from an open position flush with the surface of the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 to an intermediate position recessed behind or below the rear side 9 of the planar element 1, and vice versa.

[0057] The planar element 1 according to the invention also additionally has an inner element 32, which is a possible feature of the invention, but is not absolutely necessary for the invention. In this embodiment, the inner element 32 is arranged coaxially with the imaginary axis 7 in the first sleeve 11 and can be moved along the axis 7 from Figure 3 and Figure 8 The recessed position shown when the closure 4 is opened moves to Figure 4 and Fig. 9 4 is shown in the raised position when the closure 4 is open. In the recessed position, the inner element 32 is located behind or below the closure element 5 of the closure 4 on the back side of the closure element 5 and the closure 4. In the raised position, the inner element 32 is approximately flush with the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 or slightly protrudes beyond the visible side 2. The inner element 32 can also be slightly recessed relative to the visible side 2 of the planar element 1 in the raised position.

[0058] In this embodiment, the interior element 32 is cylindrically tubular and has a loudspeaker 33. Other configurations of the interior element 32 with, for example, buttons, switches and similar operating elements or displays are possible (not shown). If the planar element 1 forms an exterior panel, in particular a body part, a refueling port or a charging plug can also be arranged fixedly or liftably in the opening 3 as an interior element 32 (not shown).

[0059] The inner element 32 is guided in the first sleeve 11 so as to be displaceable along the axis 7 , ie the first sleeve 11 forms a guide or sliding guide for the inner element 32 .

[0060] The inner element 32 has a dowel 34 protruding from its circumference, which engages in a third control curve 35 in the first sleeve 11. The third control curve 35 has a first inclined section 36, a second inclined section 37 and a flat section 38 extending in the circumferential direction, which connects the first inclined section 36 and the second inclined section 37. The second inclined section 37 of the third control curve 35 has an inclination opposite to the first inclined section 36. The third control curve 35 is shaped and arranged relative to the first control curve 15 in the first sleeve 11 and the second control curve 26 in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 so that the closing element 5 rotates in the first rotation direction during which the closing element 5 moves from the first radial flange 20 to the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 in the first movement phase. Figure 1 and Figure 6 The closed position shown in FIG. 1 is moved to the rear side 9 of the planar element 1 or to the rear or below. Figure 2 and Figure 7 In the intermediate position shown in FIG. 1 , the inner element 32 is still further lowered from the lowered position below or behind the back side 9 of the planar element 1 . During the first movement phase, the pin 34 of the inner element 32 is located in the first inclined section 36 of the third control curve 35 .

[0061] The first sleeve 11 continues to rotate in the first rotational direction, which causes the closing element 5 to move from the intermediate position to the second movement phase. Figure 3 and Figure 8 In the open position shown in FIG. 1 , the pin 34 of the inner element 32 is located in the flat section 38 of the third control curve 35 , so that the inner element 32 does not move in the second movement phase.

[0062] When the first sleeve 11 is rotated further in the first rotation direction without change, the pin 34 of the inner element 32 reaches the second inclined section 37 of the third control curve 35, whose inclination is opposite to the inclination of the first inclined section 36, so that in the further rotation in the first rotation direction, the inner element 32 is raised between the closing elements 5 in the open position, as shown in FIG. Figure 4 and Fig. 9 shown.

[0063] A short supporting section without an inclination (not visible in the drawing) adjoins the second inclined section 37 of the third control curve 35 and supports the inner element 32 against an axial movement in the raised position.

[0064] Fig.10 A second embodiment of a planar element 1 according to the invention is shown in the closed position, wherein Fig.10The planar element 1 has a circular opening 3 instead of an angular opening 3. A second embodiment of the invention has a closure 4 which likewise has six closure elements 5, wherein these closure elements 5 are not angular but have three arc-shaped edges 39, 40, wherein two edges 39 are convex and one edge 40 is concave (see also Fig.11 ). The edges 39, 40 intersect at the corners of an imaginary equilateral triangle. The radius of the edges 39, 40 of the closing element 5 is the same as the radius of the opening 3.

[0065] In the closed position of the closure piece 4, the convex edge 39 of the closing element 5 abuts against the concave edge 40 of the adjacent closing element 5 and another convex edge 39 of the closing element 5 abuts against the circular edge 8 of the opening 3 in the planar element 1, so that the six closing elements 5 jointly close the opening 3 of the planar element 1.

[0066] As in the first embodiment, the closing element 5 of the second embodiment of the planar element 1 according to the invention has a short pin 24 and a long pin 23, wherein the short pin 24 is rotatably supported in a supporting hole (not visible in the accompanying drawings) in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11, so that the closing element 5 can rotate around the axis of its short pin 24.

[0067] The long pin 23 of the closing element 5 passes through the arc groove 42 in the second radial flange 21 of the guide sleeve 12, which is concentric with the short pin 24, and engages in the second control curve 26 in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11. The second control curve 26 is shaped and arranged so that in the second movement phase, it pivots the closing element 5 from the middle position away from the imaginary axis 7 through the middle of the opening 3 outwardly about its short pin 24 into the open position on the back side 9 of the planar element 1.

[0068] Fig.11 The closure element 5 is shown in a partially opened position between the intermediate position and the open position.

[0069] To explain in Fig.10 and Fig.11 For the second embodiment of the present invention shown in Figures 1 to 9 Description of the first embodiment shown in .

[0070] Reference Mark List:

[0071] 1 Planar Component

[0072] 2 Visible side of the planar element

[0073] 3 Opening

[0074] 4 Closures

[0075] 5. Close the element

[0076] 6 Close the visible side of the element

[0077] 7 axis

[0078] 8 The edge of the opening

[0079] 9. Back side of planar element

[0080] 10First guide

[0081] 11 First Sleeve

[0082] 12 Guide sleeve

[0083] 13 unoccupied

[0084] 14 mortise pin

[0085] 15 First control curve section

[0086] 16 inclined sections

[0087] 17 Inner Edge

[0088] 18 No slope section

[0089] 19 First Pin

[0090] 20 first radial flange

[0091] 21 second radial flange

[0092] 22 Guide slots

[0093] 23 Long Sales

[0094] 24 Short Sales

[0095] 25 Close the outer edge of the element

[0096] 26 Second control curve

[0097] 27 Internal Section

[0098] 28 External Segments

[0099] 29 Middle section

[0100] 30 Second guide member

[0101] 31 tenon pin

[0102] 32 Internal components

[0103] 33 speakers

[0104] 34 tenon pin

[0105] 35 Third control curve

[0106] 36 First inclined section

[0107] 37 Second inclined section

[0108] 38 No slope section

[0109] 39 convex edge

[0110] 40 concave edge

[0111] 41 Support section

[0112] 42 arc grooves.

Claims

1. A planar element (1) for an interior or exterior panel of a motor vehicle, the planar element having a planar visible side (2), a rear side (9) opposite to the visible side (2), an opening (3) and a movable closure (4), the closure having at least three closing elements (5), which together close the opening (3) in a closed position of the closure (4) and open the opening (3) in an open position of the closure (4), so that the at least three closing elements (5) move away from a common imaginary axis (7) and move away from each other in different directions substantially in a radial plane of the axis (7) when opening, characterized in that The planar element (1) has an inner element (32) which, in the closed position of the closure (4), is in a recessed position on the rear side of the closure element (5) which is opposite to the visible side (2), and in the open position of the closure (4), can be moved into a raised position in the opening (3) of the planar element (1) or can be moved so as to protrude from the opening (3) on the visible side (2).

2. The planar element (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that The planar element (1) has a second control curve (26) and a third control curve (35), wherein the second control curve moves the closure (4) into the open position when driven in rotation, and the third control curve converts the rotation into a translation, so that the rotation drive moves the inner element (32) from the recessed position to the raised position.

3. The planar element (1) according to claim 2, characterized in that The second control curve (26) and the third control curve (35) are designed and arranged so that, starting from the closed position, the rotary drive first moves the closure (4) into the open position and then moves the internal element (32) from the lowered position into the raised position, and vice versa.

4. Planar element (1) according to one or more of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that In the closed position, the closing element (5) of the closure (4) is flush with the visible side surface of the planar element (1); and the at least three closing elements (5) are guided when opening so that the at least three closing elements can move from the closed position essentially along the axis (7) in the direction of the back side (9) of the planar element (1) to an intermediate position in a first movement phase, and can move essentially away from the axis (7) from the intermediate position to the open position in a second movement phase, in which the closing element (5) is at least partially located behind the back side (9) of the planar element (1) when viewed from the visible side (2).

5. The planar element (1) according to claim 4, characterized in that The planar element (1) has a first guide (10) which guides the closing element (5) in a movable manner from the open position to the intermediate position and vice versa; the planar element (1) has a second guide (30) which guides the closing element (5) in a movable manner from the intermediate position to the open position and vice versa; and the planar element (1) has a third guide which guides the inner element (32) in a movably manner from the lowered position to the raised position and vice versa.

6. The planar element (1) according to claim 5, characterized in that The second guide element (30) is arranged on the first guide element (10) so that the second guide element (30) and the closure element (4) move together with the first guide element (10) from the closed position into the intermediate position and vice versa.

7. The planar element (1) according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that The first guide (10) has a first sleeve (11) and a guide sleeve (12) movable in or on the first sleeve (11); and the internal element (32) is guided in a movable manner from the lowered position to the raised position, and vice versa, on or in the guide sleeve (12) or the first sleeve (11) as a third guide.

8. Planar element (1) according to one or more of claims 4 to 7, characterized in that The planar element (1) has a first control curve (15), which, when driven in rotation, moves the closure element (4) from the closed position into the intermediate position; and, when rotated, the second control curve (26) moves the closure element (4) from the intermediate position into the open position.

9. The planar element (1) according to claim 8, characterized in that The second control curve (26) and the third control curve (35) are designed and arranged so that the rotary drive first moves the closure (4) into the open position and then moves the inner element (32) from the recessed position into the raised position, and vice versa.

10. The planar element (1) according to claim 8, characterized in that The planar element (1) has a first control curve (15) which converts a rotation into a translation, so that a rotational drive moves the closure element (4) from the closed position into the intermediate position and vice versa.

11. The planar element (1) according to claim 10, characterized in that The first, second and third control curves (15, 25, 35) are designed and arranged so that the rotary drive first moves the closure (4) from the closed position via the intermediate position into the open position and then moves the inner element (32) from the lowered position into the raised position, and vice versa.

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