Multi-Faceted Dashboard Assembly With Movable Visor Glare Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing dashboard assemblies in vehicles face challenges with visibility and protection of display units and analog meters due to sunlight exposure, glare, and damage from prolonged high-intensity sunlight, requiring a solution that ensures readability and safety without manual intervention or increasing mountings on the vehicle frame.
Innovation Solution
A multi-faceted dashboard assembly with a visor assembly that slidably engages with the handle bar cover, featuring a drive motor for automatic adjustment, and a display assembly with a rotatable support frame to position display faces ergonomically and protect them from sunlight and debris, using a contactless communication card for keyless entry and a first display unit for failsafe operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a fixed visor is used to protect the rider from wind and debris, then aerodynamic drag is reduced and rider protection is improved, but the display units and meters are still exposed to sunlight glare and cannot be protected during parking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the fixed visor into a dynamic, movable visor assembly that can automatically adjust its position between a retracted state during riding and an extended state during parking. This allows the same visor structure to serve dual purposes: protecting the rider from wind during motion and shielding display units from sunlight during stationary periods, thereby resolving the contradiction without requiring multiple separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The visor assembly is designed to perform multiple functions: it acts as a windshield for rider protection during vehicle operation and simultaneously serves as a sunshade for the display units when the vehicle is parked. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate protective structures, reducing overall system complexity while addressing both protection needs.
2Ease of operation
If display units are positioned closer to the rider for better accessibility, then ease of operation is improved, but readability is reduced due to limited space and potential obstruction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes the vertical dimension by extending the visor assembly downward to cover the display units. This allows the display to be positioned in an ergonomically accessible location while the extended visor provides overhead protection, effectively using vertical space to resolve the conflict between accessibility and readability.
Solution Approach 2:
The extended visor assembly acts as an intermediary structure that simultaneously serves as a functional component for rider protection and as a protective shield for the display units. Its strategic positioning between the rider and the display units allows it to mediate the relationship between accessibility and readability by providing glare protection without obstructing the display view.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If multiple mountings are added to the vehicle frame to accommodate both visor and protective cover, then protection capability is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the visor assembly and the protective cover function into a single integrated structure. The visor assembly is designed to extend downward to directly cover the display units, eliminating the need for a separate protective cover mounting system. This integration reduces the number of mountings required on the vehicle frame and simplifies the overall assembly process.
Solution Approach 2:
The visor assembly is designed as a multi-functional component that simultaneously provides rider protection from wind and debris, and protects display units from sunlight glare. By making the visor structure itself serve dual purposes, the patent eliminates the need for additional separate protective structures and their associated mountings, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A multi-faceted dashboard assembly (107) of a vehicle with a visor assembly and a display assembly is disclosed. The visor assembly (106) slidably engages with a handle bar cover (101) of the vehicle. The display assembly (105) comprising at least one display face (105a, 105b) is accommodated in a cavity (101a) of the handle bar cover (101). The display assembly (105) is one of stationary and rotatable from 0 degrees to about 360 degrees.