Integrated Display-Light Assembly for Dynamic Visual Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle light assemblies lack the ability to display customizable and dynamic visual content, such as logos, designs, and messages, which are typically static and fixed throughout their lifetime, and fail to integrate multiple functions like tail, stop, and welcome functions while meeting photometric requirements.
Innovation Solution
An integrated display-light assembly with a lamp housing supporting a display device and a light source behind a transparent outer lens, allowing for customizable and dynamic visual content, including animations and videos, controlled via automated or user-selectable processes, and integrated with vehicle systems for alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional fixed marking is used in a light assembly, then the manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but the adaptability and versatility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines a display device with a light assembly to create an integrated system. The display device is positioned within the light assembly housing and works together with the light source to provide both illumination and dynamic visual content display through a single outer lens, eliminating the need for separate fixed markings and reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The light assembly is designed to perform multiple functions: it provides standard automotive lighting functions (tail, stop, turn signals) through the light source while simultaneously serving as a display device for customizable visual content. The outer lens serves both to protect the components and to display the combined light and visual content to the external environment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a display device is integrated into the light assembly, then the visual content dynamism is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The light assembly is divided into distinct functional segments: a light source portion, a display device portion, and an outer lens. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured and tested independently before integration, simplifying the manufacturing process while enabling the complex integrated functionality of dynamic visual content display with standard lighting functions.
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 personalized and dynamic visual displays that combine markings with visual content, meeting photometric requirements for various vehicle light functions, enhancing user interaction and functionality.
Implementation Method 1
A light source is positioned within the lamp housing behind a first portion of the outer lens
Implementation Method 2
The display device illuminates a changeable visual content visible through the outer lens
Data Source
AI summary
An integrated display-light assembly for a vehicle includes a lamp housing for mechanically supporting an outer lens. A light source is positioned within the lamp housing behind a first portion of the outer lens. A display device is positioned within the lamp housing behind a second portion of the outer lens, different than the first portion. The display device illuminates a changeable visual content visible through the outer lens. The display device may be adapted for displaying digital images received from a controller. The light source may provide an automotive lighting function. The outer lens is positioned externally beside the display device and the light source for providing protection from external environmental conditions. The lamp housing is adapted to support the display device, the light source, and the outer lens.