Vehicle Cabin Display Strip for External Content Projection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current display technologies for vehicles lack the ability to efficiently project external display content into the passenger compartment while maintaining a flexible and compact design, and do not effectively integrate touch-sensitive surfaces for user interaction.
Innovation Solution
A flexible display panel with an external and internal portion, utilizing an optical strip with a reflecting surface and touch-sensitive surface to transmit and reflect external display content into the passenger compartment, allowing for variable configuration and ambient lighting, and enabling touch-based functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If a display panel is positioned outside the passenger compartment to save space, then the device complexity is reduced, but the display content is not visible to passengers
Solution Approach 1:
An optical strip acts as an intermediary element positioned in the instrument panel between the external display panel and the passenger compartment. The optical strip receives light from the external display and transmits it into the passenger compartment, enabling space-efficient positioning while maintaining visibility of display content to passengers
2Stability of the object's composition
If a rigid display structure is used to ensure stability, then the stability of the object's composition is improved, but the adaptability of the display configuration is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is designed with flexible materials allowing it to be dynamically positioned in different configurations. It can be retracted into the instrument panel, extended outward, or positioned at various angles, enabling the display to adapt to different spatial requirements while maintaining structural stability through its mounting mechanism
3Productivity
If a separate external display unit is added to project content, then the display functionality is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The optical strip is integrated directly into the instrument panel structure, merging the projection function with the existing dashboard components. This eliminates the need for separate external projection devices and reduces overall system complexity while maintaining enhanced display functionality
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables cost-effective ambient lighting and intuitive user interaction by projecting external display content into the passenger compartment, allowing for flexible configuration and efficient use of space, while maintaining a compact design.
Implementation Method 1
The customarily optical strip of the apparatus includes an at least partially or completely transparent body which has been configured to communicate and/or to transmit the external display content from the region into the passenger compartment
Implementation Method 2
the strip includes a reflecting surface or a mirror which may bound the body of the strip, for instance along or on one side, and has been configured to reflect or to mirror the external display content out of the region into the passenger compartment
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for a passenger compartment of a vehicle includes a display panel having an external portion and an internal portion. The passenger compartment is delimited by paneling to separate the passenger compartment from a region outside of the passenger compartment. The internal portion of the display panel is in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The external portion of the display panel, separated from the passenger compartment by the paneling, is in the region outside of the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The external portion of the display panel is to generate an external display content inside of the region. The apparatus includes a strip in a first opening of the paneling. The strip is to project the external display content of the external portion of the display panel out of the region that is separated from the passenger compartment by the paneling and into the passenger compartment.