Vehicle Dashboard Ventilation Module Mounting for Simpler Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dashboard assemblies are structurally complex and difficult to assemble, requiring numerous parts and intricate connections.
Innovation Solution
A simplified dashboard assembly design featuring a dashboard body with body-sided and side cover-sided mounting surfaces, allowing for easy connection of ventilation modules and cover parts along a width direction, using positioning features for precise alignment and connection, reducing the number of necessary parts and simplifying the assembly process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional dashboard assemblies are designed with multiple separate components and complex connection structures, then structural stability and functionality are improved, but device complexity and assembly difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the ventilation module directly into the dashboard body by providing mounting surfaces and connection features on the dashboard body itself, eliminating the need for separate mounting brackets, fasteners, and intermediate structural components. The ventilation module is merged with the dashboard body to form an integrated assembly, reducing the total number of parts while maintaining structural stability through the body-sided connection features.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional dashboard assemblies use multiple separate components with intricate connection structures, then functional versatility is improved, but ease of manufacture and assembly deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The dashboard assembly is segmented into modular components including the dashboard body, ventilation module, and cover parts, each with standardized mounting surfaces and connection features. This segmentation allows for independent manufacturing of each module while maintaining ease of assembly through the body-sided mounting surfaces that guide and secure components in their correct positions.
Solution Approach 2:
The body-sided mounting surfaces and connection features are designed with universal characteristics that can accommodate different ventilation module configurations and cover part variations. The standardized interface allows the same mounting structure to serve multiple functions: structural attachment, positioning alignment, and modular replacement, thereby maintaining functional versatility while simplifying manufacturing and assembly processes.
3Stability of the object's composition
If traditional dashboard assemblies are designed with complex structural configurations, then mechanical stability is improved, but assembly time and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting surfaces and connection features are pre-integrated into the dashboard body during its manufacturing process. The body-sided mounting surfaces are formed as integral features of the dashboard body structure, eliminating the need for separate mounting operations. This preliminary action ensures mechanical stability is built-in during manufacturing, while assembly becomes a simple matter of attaching pre-configured modules, thereby improving productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
According to an embodiment, it is a dashboard assembly for a vehicle, comprising a dashboard body extending at least along a width direction, wherein in a state in which the dashboard body is mounted in the vehicle, the width direction extends in parallel to a width direction of the vehicle, and at least one ventilation module, comprising an air duct ending in an air outlet being configured to discharge air into a passenger compartment of the vehicle, wherein at least one body-sided mounting surface with a body-sided connection feature is arranged on the dashboard body, the body-sided mounting surface facing into the width direction, and wherein the at least one ventilation module abuts against the body-sided mounting surface and is connected to the dashboard body using the body-sided connection feature.