Motor Vehicle Cockpit Shadow Region Mirroring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing motor vehicle cockpits face challenges in minimizing interfering light influences that can affect the visibility of instruments, particularly due to reflections from darkened areas in front of the instrument cover.
Innovation Solution
A motor vehicle cockpit design featuring an instrument unit with a partially transparent cover and a shadow region that is mirrored within the cover, reducing visibility of the shadow region to the driver, and utilizing a black, light-absorbing surface such as velvet to minimize light reflections, with the cover being curved and inclined to focus light rays away from the driver's view.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a darkened area is arranged in front of the instrument cover to reduce interfering light influences, then light reflections are minimized, but the cover becomes visible to the driver
Solution Approach 1:
The shadow region is nested within the instrument unit housing, positioned behind the transparent cover. This nested arrangement allows the shadow region to be mirrored in the cover without requiring a separate external darkened area, thus minimizing cover visibility while maintaining light reflection reduction
Solution Approach 2:
The shadow region is positioned in a spatial dimension behind the cover rather than in front of it. By relocating the darkened area to this different dimensional position and utilizing the mirroring effect in the cover, the solution reduces interfering light influences while keeping the cover less visible to the driver
2Illumination intensity
If the shadow region is opened on the side facing the instrument unit to allow light entry, then instruments remain visible, but light reflections increase
Solution Approach 1:
The shadow region is selectively opened only on the side facing the instrument unit, while remaining closed on the driver-facing side. This localized opening allows necessary light entry for instrument visibility while preventing light reflections that would reach the driver's eye
Solution Approach 2:
The transparent cover acts as an intermediary element that allows light to pass through to illuminate the instruments while the shadow region's strategic positioning and selective opening control light reflections. The cover mediates between the need for instrument illumination and the need to minimize reflections
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
This configuration ensures that instruments remain visible and protected from dust and mechanical effects while significantly reducing interfering light influences, maintaining clarity and functionality even in bright interior trim colors.
Implementation Method 1
The shadow region is tinted black. The black tint provides for an increased absorption of entering light and additionally for a lower reflection of light within the shadow region.
Implementation Method 2
Through the concave curvature or the curvature about the vehicle transverse axis, the shadow region can be embodied shortened in the vehicle longitudinal axis, since the cover focuses the light rays onto the shadow region.
Implementation Method 3
the shadow region is mirrored in the cover viewed from a driver's eye
Data Source
AI summary
A motor vehicle cockpit is provided that includes, but is not limited to, an instrument unit with an instrument, an at least partially transparent cover arranged on the instrument unit, a shadow region, which is arranged relative to the cover so that the shadow region is mirrored in the cover viewed from a driver's eye. The shadow region is closed on a side facing the driver's eye.