Vehicle Display Module With Pivot Arms and Lowered Screen Position
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Solution Overview
Problem
Vehicle touchscreens often require a large area, limiting the use of space in the dashboard region and restricting access to storage compartments, as they are not easily adjustable to accommodate different user needs.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle display module with an adjusting mechanism that allows the screen to pivot and translate, enabling it to switch between an erect and lowered position, thereby freeing up storage space when not in use and optimizing screen visibility and usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If the touchscreen is made large to provide versatile usability and display information, then the display functionality is improved, but the available area for other purposes (such as storage compartment access) is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The touchscreen is made dynamically adjustable through a pivot mechanism that allows it to rotate between a horizontal position (blocking storage access) and a vertical position (freeing storage access). This dynamic repositioning resolves the contradiction by allowing the screen to adapt its position based on whether display functionality or storage access is the priority at any given moment.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution moves the touchscreen from a fixed two-dimensional plane on the dashboard into a third dimension by enabling rotation around a pivot axis. This dimensional change allows the screen to occupy different spatial positions, simultaneously accommodating both large display requirements and storage compartment accessibility by utilizing vertical space rather than horizontal space alone.
2Loss of information
If the touchscreen occupies a fixed large area on the dashboard, then information display is improved, but the flexibility to accommodate different user needs is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The touchscreen transitions from a static fixed-position display to a dynamic adjustable display that can pivot between horizontal and vertical orientations. This dynamic capability enables the system to adapt to different user needs - providing maximum display area when information presentation is priority, and clearing the dashboard space when users need access to storage compartments or other controls.
Solution Approach 2:
The pivot mechanism enables the touchscreen to serve multiple functions beyond just display - it can act as a space-saving element that clears the dashboard for storage access, and potentially serve different viewing angles for different users. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making the display system adaptable to various operational contexts.
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AI summary
A module for a vehicle having an interior element and a display element having a screen area and connected to the interior element via an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the display element between an erect position, in which the screen area is arranged on a display side with respect to a horizontal displacement axis, and a lowered position, displaced, relative to the erect position, downwards with respect to the vertical axis of the vehicle and towards the display side with respect to the displacement axis and the screen area is pivoted downwards away from the vertical axis. The adjusting mechanism has a lower arm and an upper arm, each connected to the display element via a display pivot axis and to the interior element at least indirectly via at least one interior pivot axis, wherein in the erect position, the lower arm is lower than the upper arm.