Integrated Modular Cockpit Control Panel Digital Chromaticity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cockpit control panel systems lack the capability for color balance and modulation, leading to inefficiencies in lighting spectrum management, increased wiring complexity, weight, and cost, as well as difficulties in incorporating digital signal processing due to physical isolation of panels and excessive interface connectors.
Innovation Solution
An integrated modular approach with digital and hybrid panel modules that include integrated digital, analog, and hybrid-digital control panels, enabling efficient architecture, reduced wiring, and digital communication for color balance, compensation, and harmonization across multiple panels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional individual cell panels are used in parallel assembly, then each panel can perform specific control functions independently, but the system requires a large number of interface connectors and electric copper wires, increasing wiring complexity and weight
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual cell panels into integrated modular CCP panels that physically integrate multiple control functions into single panels. This merging eliminates the need for numerous separate interface connectors and copper wires between adjacent panels, reducing wiring complexity while maintaining all necessary control functions through shared digital processing resources.
2Ease of manufacture
If individual cell panels are physically isolated, then each panel can be designed independently, but the backside PCB cannot be efficiently utilized and digital signal processors cannot be shared between adjacent panels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple cell panels into integrated modules where adjacent panels share common digital signal processors and PCB real estate. This integration allows efficient utilization of the backside PCB area and enables resource sharing between panels, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining independent functional design through modular architecture.
3Extent of automation
If advanced digital systems with DSP/MPU circuits are introduced to control multiple individual small CCP panels, then computational power and digital processing capability are improved, but airworthiness certification time and cost increase excessively
Solution Approach 1:
The patent reduces the number of individual panels that require separate digital processing units by integrating multiple functions into fewer panels. This consolidation decreases the overall number of digital components requiring airworthiness certification, thereby reducing certification time and cost while maintaining adequate computational power through shared DSP/MPU resources.
4Device complexity
If conventional CCP systems are designed without integrated digital control, then the system architecture is simpler, but there is no capability for lighting adjustment, color modulation, color compensation, or color balance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates digital control capabilities including lighting adjustment, color modulation, and color balance functions into the integrated modular CCP panel architecture. By combining these advanced features into the integrated design rather than adding them to each individual panel, the system achieves full color control capability while maintaining relatively simple overall architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
The system includes a digital system architecture including digital chromaticity control. Such control may include color balance, luminance, and color compensation and/or harmonization of multiple integrated modules of display or illuminated panels. Embodiments include a system topology with an integrated modular design for multiple display or illuminated control panels, which can reduce the system weight, wiring complexity, and development expense. In embodiments, a digital chromaticity control includes in-module and cross-module control for balance and harmonization of multiple panels and modules, incorporating integrated digital signal processors and digital communications for internal and external networking.