Integration device

• US 10,439,423 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2016
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Lachnitt, Jens, Bohrmann, Markus
• Primary Examiner(s): Tat, Binh C
• Application Number:
  US15/071,548
• Publication Number:
  US 20160276866A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,301 Days
• Field of Search: 320106-115
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/70 specially adapted for specific purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241

Abstract

The invention relates to an integration device for integrating a mobile terminal device into a vehicle, which integration device comprises an electronic unit and a storage unit, the electronic unit comprising an inductive charging unit, by means of which the mobile terminal device can be charged, and the storage unit comprising a storage mat, on which the mobile terminal device can be placed.

Claims

1. An integration device, for integrating a mobile terminal device into a vehicle, comprising:

an electronic unit and a storage unit, the electronic unit comprising an inductive charging unit, by means of which the mobile terminal device can be charged, and

the storage unit comprising a storage mat, on which the mobile terminal device can be placed, wherein the storage unit comprises a cavity under the storage mat,

the storage mat is a perforated mat having openings, that connect an interior of the vehicle, located above the storage mat, to the cavity, and

the cavity is supplied with air from an airflow provided on the vehicle, in such a manner that the air delivered by the airflow flows out through the openings into the interior of the vehicle and thereby cools the mobile terminal device that can be placed on the storage mat,

wherein the electronic unit further comprises a first printed circuit board, and a receiving tray, the first printed circuit board comprising at least one electrical connection selected from an antenna connection, an electric power supply connection, and a data line connection,

wherein connection openings for an electrical connection of the vehicle are on one or more of a left transverse side wall of the tray, a right transverse side wall of the tray, a right longitudinal side wall of the tray, and a left longitudinal side wall of the tray, the first printed circuit board is matched, in its symmetry, to a receiving space of the tray in such a manner that the first printed circuit board can be inserted in the receiving space in various orientations in such a manner that the first printed circuit board, when received in the tray, corresponds to the connection openings in such a manner that at least one electrical connection of the vehicle can be connected through the tray to the at least one electrical connection of the first printed circuit board.

2. The integration device according to claim 1, wherein the storage mat has a structured upper side in which flow channels are formed, between the upper side of the storage mat and the mobile terminal device placed on the storage mat, through which the air under the mobile terminal device flows out into the interior of the vehicle.

3. The integration device according to claim 1, wherein the integration device comprises at least one connection opening through which the airflow from the vehicle can be introduced into the integration device, and the integration device comprises at least one connection opening through which an electrical connection of the vehicle can be plug-connected to the integration device.

4. The integration device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic unit comprises a second printed circuit board, in addition to the inductive charging unit and the first printed circuit board, the first printed circuit board comprising those electronic components that are necessary for connecting the integration device to the vehicle, and in particular to a vehicle bus, and the second printed circuit board comprising those components that are necessary for operating a charging coil of the inductive charging unit, and the inductive charging unit also comprising electronic components that support specific functions of mobile terminal devices.

5. The integration device according to claim 4, wherein the electronic unit comprises a fan for cooling at least one of the charging coil of the inductive charging unit, the first printed circuit board, and the second printed circuit board.

6. The integration device according to claim 4, wherein the electronic unit comprises a coupling antenna for coupling the mobile terminal device, the coupling antenna being disposed between the charging coil of the inductive charging unit and the storage mat, the coupling antenna being in the shape of a ring, and the electronic unit also comprising at least one of an NFC tile and a shielding within the ring-shaped coupling antenna.

7. The integration device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit comprises vertical elements disposed in the cavity, the vertical elements being structured to cause the air of the airflow with which the cavity is supplied to be deflected in the direction of the openings of the storage mat, the vertical elements being structured as polygons tapering in the direction of the openings of the storage mat.

8. The integration device according to claim 7, wherein the storage unit comprises an under-plate, the cavity located under the storage mat being delimited downwardly by the under-plate.

9. The integration device according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the storage mat and under-plate comprise the vertical elements, the vertical elements projecting into the cavity in the direction of the under-plate or in the direction of the storage mat, and a height of the cavity is determined by the vertical elements.

10. The integration device according to claim 8, wherein the storage unit comprises a lattice structure disposed between the storage mat and the under-plate and comprising the vertical elements, and a height of the cavity is determined by the vertical elements of the lattice structure.

11. The integration device according to claim 7, wherein the vertical elements are distributed in the cavity in such a manner that the airflow supplied laterally and consequently parallel to the surface of the storage mat, irrespective of whether supplied laterally from the left or right or from the front or back, is opposed in the projection by a closed row of cones, such that an unimpeded flow of the air through the cavity is avoided.

12. The integration device according to claim 1, wherein the first printed circuit board, in a top view onto its printed conductors, has such a geometrical shape that it can be rotated in 90°

steps about a rotation axis that is perpendicular to the printed conductors and in this is always congruent in relation to its other 90°

positions, the first printed circuit board being either an even-numbered polygon or circular.

13. The integration device according to claim 1, wherein the integration device is insertable in a console of the vehicle, the console forming a rim surrounding the storage unit, with the storage mat transitioning via an upper side, in a flush manner or via a raised step, into the surrounding rim.

14. An integration device for integrating a mobile terminal device into a vehicle, comprising

an electronic unit and a storage unit, the electronic unit comprising an inductive charging unit, by means of which the mobile terminal device can be charged, and a first printed circuit board comprising at least one electrical connection selected from an antenna connection, an electric power supply connection, and a data line connection,

the storage unit comprising a storage mat, on which the mobile terminal device can be placed,

wherein the electronic unit further comprises a receiving tray,

at least one connection opening for an electrical connection of the vehicle is formed on one or more of a left transverse side wall of the tray, a right transverse side wall of the tray, a right longitudinal side wall of the tray, and a left longitudinal side wall of the tray,

the first printed circuit board that can be installed in the tray being matched, in its symmetry, to a receiving space of the tray in such a manner that the printed circuit board can be inserted in the receiving space in various orientations in such a manner that the first printed circuit board, when received in the tray, corresponds to the at least one connection opening in such a manner that the at least one electrical connection of the vehicle can be connected through the tray to the at least one electrical connection of the first printed circuit board.