Face element of interior or exterior facing of vehicle

Abstract

The invention relates to a surface element (1) of an interior facing, for example a center console in a passenger compartment of a vehicle, having an opening (3) which can be closed flush with a visible side (2) surface of the surface element (1) by means of six closing elements (5). For opening, the closing elements (5) are lowered behind or below the back side (9) of the surface element (1) and are moved outwards on the back side (9) of the surface element (1) in such a way that they release the opening (3).

Description

Technical Field

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

[0002] The interior surface of the vehicle is, for example, a dashboard, a center console, a door interior surface, a trim panel on the back side of a front seat backrest, etc. in the vehicle cabin, or a part of such an interior surface.

[0003] The exterior surfaces of a vehicle are in particular the body parts of the vehicle.

[0004] Publication DE 102012108962 A1 discloses a passenger operating unit for a land vehicle, a water vehicle or an aircraft, which has a rectangular plate as a surface element, which has in particular two air outlets that can be closed by a rotatable baffle in the shape of a four-wing propeller or by an iris-type baffle. Summary of the invention

[0005] The object of the present invention is to provide a surface element for an interior or exterior surface of a vehicle having an opening which can be closed in such a way that it is not visible or is barely visible.

[0006] This object is achieved according to the invention by the features of claim 1 .

[0007] The surface 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 surface element in a closed position and completely or at least partially open the opening in an open position. Depending on the textile surface structure, "planar", "surface-shaped" and "surface element" can generally refer to essentially two-dimensional objects whose thickness is negligible compared to their length and / or width or to their area, or whose thickness is only a small fraction of their dimensions, in particular their largest dimension in their area, preferably less than 10%.

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

[0009] For interior facings, the visible side of the surface element is its surface facing the passenger compartment and visible to vehicle occupants in the passenger compartment. For exterior facings, the visible side is its surface visible from outside the vehicle. “Open” means that perpendicular to the visible side, viewed toward the surface element, 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 open.

[0010] The openings of the surface element according to the invention can be, for example, openings for air outlets, adjustment openings for beverage holders (so-called "cup holders"), openings for storage compartments, installation openings for loudspeakers or for buttons, switches and similar operating elements and / or displays. For the exterior, the openings are, for example, openings for the fuel tank filler pipe or the charging socket of an electric vehicle.

[0011] There is no provision for the closing element to close the opening in a gas-tight, ie fluid-tight, manner in the closed position, although the invention does not exclude a gas-tight closure. A complete or largely optical closure or covering of the opening of the surface element is provided.

[0012] In the closed position, at least three closing elements of the closure are flush with the visible side surface of the surface element, wherein "flush" means that the closing elements have no offset perpendicular to the visible side in the closed position and preferably continue the visible side of the surface element in such a flush manner that the opening of the surface element closed by the closure element is not noticeable or barely noticeable in appearance and / or tactilely.

[0013] According to the invention, at least three closing elements of the closure of the opening of the panel element according to the invention are guided so that they can be moved in a first movement interval from the closed position to the intermediate position and from the intermediate position to the open position in a second movement interval when opening. Opening refers to the movement of the closure or its closing elements from the closed position to the open position. Closing, that is, the movement of at least three closing elements of the closure from the open position to the closed position is performed in the opposite direction. In the first movement interval, the at least three closing elements move along or substantially along an imaginary axis from the closed position flush with the visible side surface of the panel element to the intermediate position, in which the closing elements are behind the back side of the panel element. "Behind the back side of the panel element" means that the at least three closing elements can be moved from the intermediate position to the closed position separately from each other on the back side of the panel element. In the second movement range, at least three closing elements of the closure of the panel element according to the invention are moved away from the axis away from one another until they are located behind the rear side of the panel element in the open position and completely or at least partially or predominantly outside the opening of the panel element as seen from the visible side through the opening. In the open position, the imaginary axis in particular passes through the opening, in particular through the center of the opening or between the at least three closing elements. In particular, the axis in the closed position runs perpendicular to the tangential surface of the visible side of the at least three closing elements.

[0014] The invention makes it possible to achieve a closure of the opening of the panel element which is flush with the visible side of the panel element and which is therefore, in preferred embodiments of the invention, not perceptible or barely perceptible visually and / or haptically.

[0015] The subject matter of the dependent claims is advantageous embodiments and developments of the invention specified in claim 1 .

[0016] One design of the present invention provides a first guide for a first movement interval of the closing element and a second guide for a second movement interval, wherein the first guide can movably guide the second guide and vice versa. The surface element according to the present invention can have a common first and / or common second guide for each of the at least three closing elements or a plurality of closing elements, or can have a separate first guide and / or separate second guide for each of the at least three closing elements. The first guide guides the closing element movably 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.

[0017] As the first guide portion, a design solution of the present invention provides a sliding guide portion.

[0018] A development of the invention provides a guide sleeve as a first guide for the closing element of the closure of the surface element, which guide sleeve can be axially displaced in or on the first sleeve. The first sleeve and / or the guide sleeve can additionally be rotatable.

[0019] As a second guide portion (which can movably guide at least three closing elements away from an imaginary axis and separated from each other from an intermediate position to an open position and guide them in the opposite direction for closing), a design scheme of the present invention provides a second sliding guide portion or multiple second sliding guide portions or one or more pivot bearing portions for the closing elements.

[0020] A further development of the invention provides a first control cam which converts the rotation into a movement in such a way that the rotary drive moves at least three closing elements of the closure from the closed position to the intermediate position and vice versa. This design of the invention allows the closing elements to be moved in a first movement interval by the rotary drive.

[0021] Likewise, a further development of the invention provides a second control cam which, when driven in rotation, moves the closing element from the intermediate position into the open position and vice versa. An embodiment of the invention with two control cams allows the closure to be opened and closed with or by means of a rotary drive.

[0022] One embodiment of the invention provides an interior element which, in the closed position of the closure, is located on the back side of the closure in a sunken position. That is, the interior element is covered by the closure in the sunken position when the closure is closed. When the closure is opened, the interior element can be moved into a raised position in which it is located in the opening of the panel element or protrudes from the opening on the visible side of the panel element. The interior element can have, for example, loudspeakers, operating elements, displays, tank connections or charging sockets which are easily accessible by raising the interior element and are better accessible than in a position sunken into the opening.

[0023] A development of the invention provides that the inner element is guided in an axially displaceable manner in a first sleeve of the sliding guide of the first guide.

[0024] Preferably, the surface element according to the invention has a third control cam for driving the inner element, which, when driven in rotation, moves the inner element from a lowered position to a raised position and vice versa. This embodiment of the invention allows the closure to be opened and closed and the inner element to be raised and lowered with a rotary drive.

[0025] The control cam is preferably designed so that, starting from the closed position, the closure is opened by means of the rotary drive, that is, at least three closure elements are first lowered into the intermediate position and, during further rotation, into the open position and, if present, inner elements, which were lowered behind or below the closure elements when the closure was closed, are lifted during further rotation between the closure elements that moved apart from one another in the open position or also on the visible side over the closure elements. Lowering and closing take place in opposite directions of rotation with opposite movements and in an opposite sequence of movements.

[0026] The features and feature combinations, embodiments and designs of the present invention mentioned above in the specification and 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 described or drawn separately, but also in any other combination or individually in principle. Embodiments of the present invention that do not have all the features of the dependent claims are possible. The individual features of the claims can also be replaced by other disclosed features or feature combinations. The following embodiments of the present invention are possible, which do not have all the features of the embodiment, but have, if necessary, any part of the characteristic features of an embodiment in principle in combination with one, more or all features of one or more other embodiments. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0027] The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to two exemplary embodiments shown in the drawings.

[0028] Figure 1 A perspective view shows a surface element according to the invention in a closed position;

[0029] Figure 2 Shows Figure 1 The surface element in the middle position;

[0030] Figure 3 Shows Figure 1 and 2 The surface element in is in the open position;

[0031] Figure 4 Shows Figures 1 to 3 a surface element in which the inner element is in a raised position;

[0032] Figure 5 Shows Figures 1 to 4 Exploded view of the surface element in;

[0033] Figure 6 Shows Figures 1 to 5 The components of the surface element in the Figure 1 perspective view in the closed position;

[0034] Figure 7 Shows Figure 6 The components of the surface element are arranged in accordance with Figure 2 In the middle position of

[0035] Figure 8 Shows Figure 6 and 7 The components of the surface element are arranged in accordance with Figure 3 in the open position;

[0036] Fig. 9 Shows Figures 6 to 8 The components of the surface elements in which the internal elements are arranged in accordance with Figure 4 in the promoted position;

[0037] Fig.10 A second embodiment of a panel element according to the invention is shown in a perspective view in a closed position; and

[0038] Fig.11 Shows Fig.10 A situation in which a part of the surface element in is in a partially opened position between the intermediate position and the open position. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0039] In principle, identical parts are provided with the same reference symbols in the figures.

[0040] exist Figures 1 to 5The surface element 1 according to the invention shown in the figure is part of an interior surface of a passenger compartment of a vehicle, which is not shown elsewhere. The surface element 1 can be part of the cladding of the dashboard, the center console, the door cladding of the passenger compartment or the back side of the backrest of the front seat in the passenger compartment, for example. In the present exemplary embodiment, the surface element 1 is part of the upper side of the center console of the passenger compartment. The surface element 1 can also be designed as an exterior surface or part of an exterior surface of a motor vehicle, in particular as part of the body of the vehicle.

[0041] The surface element 1 is plate-shaped and can be, for example, flat or curved or have partial surfaces which are arranged at different angles relative to one another. This enumeration is intended to be exemplary and not exhaustive.

[0042] The visible side 2 of the panel element 1 is a two-dimensional surface, which can also be referred to as planar. The visible side 2 is the surface of the panel element 1 that faces the passenger compartment and is visible to vehicle occupants in the passenger compartment. In the case of an exterior surface, the visible side 2 is, for example, the outer side of a body part that is visible when viewed from the outside toward the vehicle.

[0043] The surface element 1 has an opening 3 which can be closed by a closure element 4. The closure element 4 is multi-part and has, according to the invention, at least three, in the present exemplary embodiment six, closing elements 5. Figures 1 to 5 In the embodiment, the opening 3 is hexagonal, which has the shape of a regular hexagon, wherein other shapes of the opening 3 are possible. Figure 1 The panel element 1 is shown, wherein the closure element 4 is in the closed position, in which the closure element 5 of the closure element 4 together closes the opening 3 of the panel element 1. In the closed position, the visible side 6 of the closure element 5 is flush with the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 in the region surrounding the opening 3. "Flush" means that the visible side 6 of the closure element 5 in the closed position in the region surrounding the opening 3 is not offset relative to the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 perpendicularly to the visible side 2, 6, but rather the visible side 6 of the closure element 5 in the closed position is in a plane with or tangent to the region surrounding the opening 3 of the panel element 1. As a result, the closure element 5 of the closure element 4 in the closed position closes the opening 3 in such a way that the opening 3 in the panel element 1 is not or hardly noticeable in appearance and / or tactilely. Although it is possible that the closure element 4 closes the opening in the closed position in a tightly sealed manner. However, in the present exemplary embodiment, the closure element 4 is not hermetically sealed. The visible side 6 of the closure element 5 is its surface which in the closed position faces the passenger compartment of the vehicle and is visible to the occupants in the passenger compartment.

[0044] The closure 5 is opened in two movement intervals, wherein in a first movement interval the closing element 5 is opened from Figure 1 The closed position shown in FIG. Figure 2 and moves from the intermediate position to the intermediate position in the second movement interval. Figure 3. Closing is done in the opposite manner. Figures 6 to 9 The components of the panel element 1 are shown in the closed position ( Figure 6 ), in the middle position ( Figure 7 ) and in the open position ( Figure 8 ) and wherein the internal element 32 is in a raised position ( Fig. 9 ).

[0045] For opening, the closing element 5 is moved in a first movement range along or parallel to the imaginary axis 7 from a closed position flush with the surface of the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 in the region surrounding the opening 3 to a closed position flush with the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 in the region surrounding the opening 3. Figure 2 1 , wherein the imaginary axis extends perpendicularly or at an acute angle to the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 or to the visible side 6 of the closure element 5 in the closed position through the center of the opening 3 of the panel element 1 or through the center of the opening 3 at a distance from the edge 8 of the opening 3. The rear side 9 is the side of the panel element 1 which is opposite the visible side 2. In the intermediate position, the closure element 5 is always still located in the opening 3 of the panel element 1, viewed perpendicularly to the visible side 2, but can be moved out of the opening 3 on the rear side 9 parallel to the visible side 2.

[0046] In the second movement range, the closing element 5 of the closure element 4 is moved outwards from the central position away from the imaginary axis 7 through the opening 3 of the panel element 1 on the rear side 9 of the panel element 1 to the position at which the closure element 5 is located. Figure 3 . The movement takes place parallel to an imaginary radial plane of the axis 7. In the open position, the closing element 5, viewed perpendicularly to the visible side 2 towards the opening 3 of the panel element 1, is located outside the opening 3 in such a way that it releases the opening 3. It is also possible that the closing element 5 does not completely release the opening 3 in the open position, but rather extends slightly into the opening 3, 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 panel element 1, in the open position the visible side 6 of the closing element 5 facing the rear side 9 of the panel element 1 in the present exemplary embodiment.

[0047] The surface 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 displacement section along or parallel to the axis 7. In the present exemplary embodiment, the surface element 1 has a first guide 10 for all closing elements 5 which guides the closing elements 5 together. 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).

[0048] In this embodiment, the first guide portion 10 is configured as a sliding guide portion. Figure 5 As can be seen in the exploded view of the first guide part 10, the first guide part 10 has a cylindrical tubular first sleeve 11 in the present embodiment, which is guided axially displaceably in or on a guide sleeve 12 which is also cylindrical tubular in the present embodiment and which is additionally rotatable in the present embodiment. The guide sleeve 12 is Figures 1 to 4 is concealed in and Figure 5 The common axis of the two sleeves 11, 12 in this embodiment coincides with the imaginary axis 7. Other configurations of the first guide 10 are possible within the scope of the invention.

[0049] The first sleeve 11 has a slot as a first control cam 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 (three in the present embodiment) superimposed first control cams 15, which are arranged in the first sleeve 11 in a manner offset relative to each other in the circumferential direction.

[0050] The guide sleeve 12 has a first pin 19 which protrudes outward from the guide sleeve 12 ( Figure 5 ) and engages in the first control cam 15 in such a way that, when the first pin 19 is in the inclined section 16 of the first control cam 15, an axial movement of the guide sleeve 12 relative to the first sleeve 11 occurs when the first sleeve 11 is rotated relative to the guide sleeve 12. If the first pin 19 is in the non-inclined section 18 of the first control cam 15, the rotation of the first sleeve 11 does not cause the guide sleeve 12 to move.

[0051] The first sleeve 11 has a first radial flange 20 and the guide sleeve 12 has a substantially overlapping second radial flange 21, on which the closing element 5 of the closure element 4 is arranged in such a way that the closing element 5 can be moved together with the guide sleeve 12 in a first movement range from a closed position flush with the surface of the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 to an intermediate position below or behind the rear side 9 of the panel element 1 along or axially parallel to the imaginary axis 7. As explained, the movement is produced by a rotation of the first sleeve 11 relative to the guide sleeve 12.

[0052] 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 movably guided by two pins 23, 24, respectively. The guide grooves 22 form sliding guides, which guide 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 the straight outer edge 25 of the closing element 5, which in the closed position of the closing element 5 abut on the inner side against the hexagonal edge 8 of the opening 3 of the surface element 1 or in any case towards the edge 8 of the opening 3, so that the closing element 5 can be moved along its outer edge 25 or parallel to its outer edge 25 in a radial plane of the axis 7, in order to move away from the axis 7 to open and towards the axis 7 to close, until the inner edges 17 of the closing element 5 facing each other abut against each other in the closed position.

[0053] The first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 has a Z-shaped slot for each closing element 5, which is referred to here as a second control cam 26. The second control cam 26 has an inner section 27 extending in the circumferential direction, an outer section 28 extending in the circumferential direction and a radially extending intermediate section 29 in the present embodiment, which connects the inner section 27 and the outer section 28. The guide groove 22 in the second radial flange 21 and the second control cam 26 in the first radial flange 20 are arranged and shaped so that they cross each other, wherein the intersection point of the guide groove 22 and the second control cam 26 moves along the guide groove 22 and the second control cam 26 when the radial flanges 20, 21 and the guide groove 22 and the second control cam 26 are rotated relative to each other. One of the two pins 23 of each closing element 5 is correspondingly a long pin 23, which passes through the guide groove 22 in the second radial flange 21 and is inserted into the second control cam 26 in the first radial flange 20 in such a way that when the two radial flanges 20, 21 rotate relative to each other, the closing elements 5 are separated from each other away from the axis 7 and are pushed together when the rotation direction is opposite.

[0054] The other pins 24 of the closing element 5 are short pins 24 which are merely inserted into the guide grooves 22 in the second radial flange 21 of the guide sleeve 12 and do not extend into the second control cams 26 in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 .

[0055] exist Figure 1 and 6 In the closed position shown, the first pin 19 of the guide sleeve 12 is located in a support section 41 of the first control cam 15 , which adjoins the end of the inclined section 16 of the first control cam 15 facing away from the non-inclined section 18 .

[0056] The first control cam 15, the guide groove 22 and the second control cam 26 are shaped and arranged so that Figure 1 and 6 Starting from the closed position shown, 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 enters from the support section 41 into the inclined section 16 of the first control cam 15, wherein the inclination of the inclined section 16 causes the guide sleeve 12 and the second radial flange 21 and the closing element 5 arranged on the second radial flange 21 to move from the closed position flush with the visible side 5 of the surface element 1 to the closed position flush with the visible side 5 of the surface element 1. Figure 2 and 7 , in which the closing element 5 is still in the opening 3 of the surface element 1, but is above, behind or below the rear side 9 of the surface element 1. This is the first movement range. In the first movement range, the long pin 23 of the closing element 5 is located in the inner section 27 of the second control cam 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.

[0057] When the first sleeve 11 is further rotated relative to the guide sleeve 12 in the first rotational direction, the first pin 19 of the guide sleeve 12 enters the non-sloped section 18 of the first control cam 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 position in the first radial flange 21. Figure 3 and 8 This is the second range of motion.

[0058] The pins 23 , 24 of the closing element 5 inserted into the guide groove 22 in the second radial flange 21 and the guide groove 22 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 to the open position and vice versa.

[0059] The first sleeve 11 is driven in rotation by an electric motor / reduction motor (not visible in the drawing), which is arranged outside the first sleeve 11 and has a pinion which meshes with a toothing (not visible in the drawing) on ​​the outer circumference of the first sleeve 11 .

[0060] A pin 31 projects from the rear side 9 of the panel element 1 perpendicularly to the panel element 1 and parallel to the axis 7, on which the guide sleeve 12 is guided on its second radial flange 21 in a manner displaceable along the axis 7 in such a way 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 panel element 1 is variable. As a result, the distance between the closing element 5 of the closure part 4 arranged on the second radial flange 21 and the rear side 9 of the panel element 1 is also variable, which allows a range of movement of the closing element 5 from an open position flush with the surface of the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 to an intermediate position sunk below or behind the rear side 9 of the panel element 1 and vice versa.

[0061] The panel element 1 according to the invention further comprises an inner element 32, which is a possible inventive feature but is not mandatory for the invention. In the present exemplary embodiment, the inner element 32 is arranged coaxially with respect to the imaginary axis 7 in the first sleeve 11 and can be moved along the axis 7 from a sunken position ( Figure 3 and 8 shows the sunken position) into a raised position when the closure 4 is opened ( Figure 4 and 9 1 shows the raised position). In the lowered position, the inner element 32 is located behind or below the closing element 5 of the closing element 4 on the back side of the closing element 5 and the closure part 4. In the raised position, the inner element 32 is approximately flush with the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 or projects slightly beyond the visible side 2. The inner element 32 can also be slightly sunken relative to the visible side 2 of the panel element 1 in the raised position.

[0062] In the present exemplary embodiment, the interior element 32 is cylindrically tubular and has a loudspeaker 33. Other configurations of the interior element 32, for example with buttons, switches and similar operating elements or displays, are possible (not shown). If the surface element 1 forms an exterior surface, in particular a body part, a fuel tank connection or a charging plug (not shown) can also be arranged in a fixed or liftable manner as the interior element 32 in the opening 3.

[0063] The inner element 32 is guided in the first sleeve 11 so that it can move along the axis 7 , ie the first sleeve 11 forms a guide or sliding guide for the inner element 32 .

[0064] The inner element 32 has tenons 34 protruding from its circumference, which are inserted into the third control cam 35 in the first sleeve 11. The third control cam 35 has a first inclined section 36, a second inclined section 37 and a section 38 extending in the circumferential direction without inclination, which connects the first and second inclined sections 36, 37. The second inclined section 37 of the third control cam 35 has an inclination opposite to that of the first inclined section 36. The third control cam 35 is shaped and arranged relative to the first control cam 15 in the first sleeve 11 and relative to the second control cam 26 in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 so that when the first sleeve 11 is rotated in the first rotational direction, the closing element 5 is closed when the closing element 5 is closed from the first radial flange 20. Figure 1 and 6 Closed position shown to Figure 2 and 7 During the movement in the first movement range shown in the intermediate position at, behind or below the rear side 9 of the surface element 1, the inner element 32 is lowered further from the lowered position to below or behind the rear side 9 of the surface element 1. During the first movement range, the tongue 34 of the inner element 32 is in the first inclined section 36 of the third control cam 35.

[0065] When the first sleeve 11 continues to rotate along the first rotation direction (the first sleeve moves the closing element 5 from the middle position to the closing position in the second movement interval), Figure 3 and 8 ), the pin 34 of the inner element 32 is located in the non-inclined section 38 of the third control cam 35 , so that the inner element 32 does not move in the second movement range.

[0066] When the first sleeve 11 continues to rotate in the first rotation direction without change, the tenon 34 of the inner element 32 enters the second inclined section 37 of the third control cam 35, the inclination of which is opposite to the inclination of the first inclined section 36, so that the inner element 32 is lifted between the closing elements 5 in the open position when the first sleeve 11 continues to rotate in the first rotation direction, as shown in FIG. Figure 4 and 9 shown.

[0067] The second inclined section 37 of the third control cam 35 is adjoined by a short, non-sloped supporting section (not visible in the figure) which supports the inner element 32 against axial movement in the raised position.

[0068] Fig.10 A second exemplary embodiment of a panel element 1 according to the invention is shown in the closed position, wherein Fig.10The surface element 1 in the embodiment has a circular opening 3 instead of a polygonal opening 3. A second embodiment of the invention has a closure 4 which also has six closing elements 5, wherein these closing elements 5 are not polygonal but have three arc-shaped edges 39, 40, of which 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 as large as the radius of the opening 3.

[0069] In the closed position of the closure piece 4, a convex edge 39 of the closing element 5 abuts against a concave edge 40 of an 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 surface element 1, so that the six closing elements 5 together close the opening 3 of the surface element 1.

[0070] As in the first embodiment, the closing element 5 of the second embodiment of the surface element 1 according to the invention has a short pin and a long pin 23, 24, wherein the short pin 24 is rotatably supported in a bearing hole (not visible in the figure) in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11 so that the closing element 5 can be rotated about the axis of its short pin 24.

[0071] The long pins 23 of the closing element 5 pass through the arc grooves 42 in the second radial flange 21 of the guide sleeve 12, which are concentric with the short pins 24, and are inserted into the second control cams 26 in the first radial flange 20 of the first sleeve 11. The second control cams 26 are shaped and arranged in such a way that they pivot the closing element 5 outwardly about its short pins 24 in the second movement range from the central position away from the imaginary axis 7 through the center of the opening 3 into the open position on the back side 9 of the surface element 1.

[0072] Fig.11 The closing element 5 is shown in a partially open position between the intermediate position and the open position.

[0073] In order to explain the present invention Fig.10 and 11 The second embodiment shown in Figures 1 to 9 The first embodiment is shown in the following.

[0074] List of reference numerals:

[0075] 1-sided component

[0076] Visible side of 2-sided element

[0077] 3 Opening

[0078] 4 Closures

[0079] 5. Close the element

[0080] 6 Close the visible side of the element

[0081] 7 axis

[0082] 8 The edge of the opening

[0083] Back side of 9-sided element

[0084] 10First guide part

[0085] 11 First Sleeve

[0086] 12 Guide sleeve

[0087] 13 empty

[0088] 14 Tenon

[0089] 15First control cam

[0090] 16 inclined sections

[0091] 17 Inner Edge

[0092] 18 Non-helical segments

[0093] 19 First Pin

[0094] 20 First radial flange

[0095] 21 Second radial flange

[0096] 22 guide groove

[0097] 23 Long Sales

[0098] 24 Short Sales

[0099] 25 Close the outer edge of the element

[0100] 26 Second control cam

[0101] 27 Internal Section

[0102] 28 External Segments

[0103] 29 Middle section

[0104] 30 Second guide part

[0105] 31 tenon

[0106] 32 Internal components

[0107] 33 speakers

[0108] 34 tenon

[0109] 35 Third control cam

[0110] 36 First inclined section

[0111] 37 Second inclined section

[0112] 38 No helical segments

[0113] 39 Raised edge

[0114] 40 Recessed Edges

[0115] 41 Support section

[0116] 42 arc slot

Claims

1. A surface element (1) for an interior or exterior surface of a vehicle, comprising a planar visible side (2), a rear side (9) opposite the visible side (2), an opening (3), and a closure (4) having at least three closing elements (5), which together close the opening (3) in the closed position of the closure (4) and release the opening (3) in the open position of the closure (4), wherein the at least three closing elements (5) move in principle in different directions in a radial plane from a common imaginary axis (7) during opening, characterized in that The at least three closing elements (5) are flush with the surface of the visible side (2) in the closed position and are guided in such a way that, when opening, they can move from the closed position flush with the surface of the visible side (2) of the surface element (1) in a first movement range essentially along the axis (7) in the direction of the back side (9) of the surface element (1) to an intermediate position and in a second movement range essentially away from the axis (7) from the intermediate position to an open position in which the closing elements (5) are at least partially behind the back side (9) of the surface element (1) when viewed from the visible side (2).

2. The surface element (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that The surface element (1) has a first guide (10) which guides the closing element (5) movably from an open position into an intermediate position and vice versa, and the closure element (4) has a second guide (30) which guides the closing element (5) movably from the intermediate position into the closed position and vice versa.

3. The surface element (1) according to claim 2, characterized in that The surface element (1) has a sliding guide as a first guide (10).

4. The surface element (1) according to claim 3, characterized in that The sliding guide has a first sleeve (11) which is axially movable in or on a guide sleeve (12).

5. The surface element (1) according to claim 2, characterized in that The closure element (4) has a second sliding guide or pivot bearing as a second guide (30).

6. The surface element (1) according to claim 2, characterized in that The second guide (30) is arranged on the first guide (10) in such a way that the second guide (30) and the closure element (4) move together with the first guide (10) from a closed position into an intermediate position and vice versa.

7. The surface element (1) according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that The surface element (1) has a first control cam (15) which converts a rotation into a movement in such a way that a rotary drive moves at least three closing elements (5) of the closure part (4) from the closed position into the intermediate position and vice versa.

8. The surface element (1) according to claim 5, characterized in that The surface element (1) has a second control cam (26) which, when driven in rotation, moves a closing element (5) of the closure part (4) from a central position into an open position and vice versa.

9. Surface element (1) according to one or more of the preceding claims, characterized in that The surface element (1) has an inner element (32) which, in the closed position of the closure element (4), is located in a lowered position on the rear side of the closure element (4) and which, in the open position of the closure element (4), can be moved protruding from the opening (3) into a raised position in the opening (3) of the surface element (1) or on the visible side (2).

10. The surface element (1) according to claim 4 and claim 9, characterized in that The inner element (32) is guided in an axially displaceable manner in a first sleeve (11) of a sliding guide of a first guide (10) of at least three closing elements (5) of a closure piece (4).

11. The surface element (1) according to claim 9, characterized in that The surface element (1) has a third control cam (35) which converts a rotation into a displacement in such a way that the rotary drive moves the inner element (32) from a lowered position into a raised position.

12. The surface element (1) according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that The first control cam (15) and the second control cam (26) are designed and arranged in such a way that a rotary drive moves the closure element (4) from a closed position via an intermediate position into an open position and vice versa.

13. The surface element (1) according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that The first, second and third control cams (15, 26, 35) are designed and arranged in such a way that the rotary drive first moves the closure element (4) from the closed position via an intermediate position into the open position and subsequently moves the inner element (32) from the lowered position into the raised position and vice versa.

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