Pop-up Console Cover with Dynamic Transparency and Nesting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle consoles lack integrated functions and deteriorate the internal aesthetic appearance due to protruding multi-step trays, which restrict their ability to provide advanced storage and display features.
Innovation Solution
A pop-up console with a cover device featuring a touch panel, transparent display, and wireless charging trays that can be adjusted in height, allowing for controlled transparency and integrated information display, enhancing storage and aesthetic appeal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multi-step trays are used to provide storage spaces, then storage functionality is improved, but the trays protrude out of the console housing which deteriorates the internal aesthetic appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The lower trays are nested within the console housing and can be selectively extended outward. When retracted, the trays are completely contained within the housing boundaries, maintaining a clean, flush exterior surface that preserves aesthetic appearance. When needed, the trays extend to provide accessible storage compartments.
Solution Approach 2:
The lower trays are designed with movable mechanisms that allow them to dynamically extend and retract. This dynamic capability enables the trays to transition between a retracted state (preserving aesthetic appearance) and an extended state (providing storage functionality), allowing the system to adapt to different user needs.
2Shape
If a cover device is added to cover the trays, then aesthetic appearance is improved, but the cover device adds structural complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The cover device is merged with the tray structure, where the cover and tray form an integrated assembly. This integration reduces the number of separate components and simplifies the overall structure while still providing the aesthetic benefit of covering the trays when they are retracted.
Solution Approach 2:
The cover device serves multiple functions: it provides aesthetic coverage when trays are retracted, protects the trays when extended, and can integrate with the display device to provide information about the storage compartments. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components.
3Adaptability or versatility
If integrated functions like display and wireless charging are added, then functionality is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cover device is designed as a multi-functional component that integrates the display device and wireless charging capability. The display can show information about stored items, while the wireless charging tray provides power to devices placed on it. By combining these functions in a single integrated assembly, the patent avoids the complexity of separate systems while enhancing overall functionality.
4Loss of information
If the cover device is made transparent to show contents, then visibility is improved, but control over privacy is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cover device incorporates a transparency control mechanism that allows it to dynamically switch between transparent and opaque states. When transparent, users can visually inspect contents without opening the cover. When opaque, the cover provides privacy protection. This dynamic adaptability allows the same structure to serve both visibility and privacy needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The optical properties of the cover device are made changeable through parameters such as transparency or opacity. By controlling this parameter, the system can adapt to different user requirements - allowing visibility when needed while maintaining privacy when required, all through a single adjustable property of the cover material or mechanism.
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
The pop-up console provides multiple storage levels, allows users to monitor device charging status, and improves the vehicle's internal appearance by retracting the cover device into the housing, offering a versatile and aesthetically enhanced storage solution.
Implementation Method 1
an electric frost glass disposed under the transparent display
Implementation Method 2
At least one of the lower trays under the cover device may include a wireless charging tray
Data Source
AI summary
A pop-up console apparatus for a vehicle may include a console housing disposed in a vehicle; a cover device disposed on the console housing to cover or pop open a top portion of the console housing; and one or more lower trays sequentially disposed under the cover device, wherein at least one of the lower trays moves up and down along a guide that is coupled to an end portion of the cover to pop up together with the cover while being inserted into the console housing.