Vehicle Trim Element With Peripheral Display Surface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle trim elements with integrated display devices face challenges in maintaining display quality and size while minimizing space and cost, often requiring large display surfaces that compromise other functional elements and increase costs.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a luminous sheet that emits light towards both the main and peripheral display surfaces, allowing for reduced screen size while maintaining display quality and creating an illusion of a larger display area, with the light making the transition between surfaces appear seamless.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the display surface and housing are made large to display content with sufficient dimensions, then display quality is improved, but the footprint in the trim element increases and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends the display functionality from a single flat screen into the third dimension by having the outer surface wrap around the housing. This creates a peripheral display surface that utilizes the vertical and lateral dimensions of the housing, effectively increasing the display area without proportionally increasing the horizontal footprint in the trim element.
Solution Approach 2:
The outer surface serves multiple functions: it acts as both the display surface for the screen and as the peripheral housing surface. This multi-functionality allows the same structural element to provide both display functionality and structural containment, reducing the need for additional components and space.
2Area of stationary object
If the display surface size is reduced to decrease footprint and cost, then space and cost are improved, but display quality and information amount deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
By wrapping the outer surface around the housing to create a peripheral display surface, the patent effectively increases the display area in vertical and lateral dimensions. This allows the display to show more information and maintain quality without requiring a larger horizontal footprint, thus resolving the contradiction between display quality and space utilization.
3Manufacturing precision
If a large screen is used to maintain display quality, then display quality is improved, but the cost of the trim element increases
Solution Approach 1:
The outer surface is designed to serve dual purposes: as the display surface and as the peripheral housing structure. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate components, reducing material costs and assembly complexity while maintaining high display quality through the extended peripheral display surface.
4Shape
If the outer surface is made continuous and uninterrupted for satisfactory appearance, then aesthetic quality is improved, but the complexity of integrating display and housing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The outer surface is designed as a single continuous element that simultaneously serves as both the display surface and the peripheral housing. This unified structure eliminates the need for separate components and complex joints, reducing integration complexity while maintaining a seamless, high-quality appearance.
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
This solution reduces the size and cost of the trim element while maintaining satisfactory display quality, providing a continuous and uninterrupted outer surface appearance, and allowing for additional information display outside the screen, enhancing passenger experience.
Implementation Method 1
an illumination device, the illumination device comprising at least one luminous sheet arranged to emit light towards the outer surface
Implementation Method 2
an at least partially translucent outer surface, the outer surface defining a main display surface and a peripheral display surface
Data Source
AI summary
A trim element having an outer surface that is at least partially translucent, the outer surface defining a main display surface and a peripheral display surface, the peripheral display surface extending around at least a portion of the main display surface, a screen of a display device extending opposite the main display surface. The trim member includes an illumination device having a luminous sheet extending opposite the main display surface and the peripheral display surface so as to emit at least a first luminous signal onto the screen and at least a second luminous signal illuminating at least a portion of the peripheral display surface when the luminous sheet is activated.