Dashboard for a motor vehicle

• US 20060131088A1
• Filed: 09/12/2005
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Wehner, Manfred, Pawusch, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US11/223,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20060131088A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/90
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/53 Movable instruments, e.g. slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/027 for Din-sized apparatus

Abstract

The invention relates to a dashboard for a motor vehicle, with a screen for displaying information, the screen being arranged in front of the dashboard as seen by a vehicle occupant. In order to form a dashboard such that the screen can be read equally well both by the driver and by the passenger, depending on requirements, with the installation space in the region of the dashboard at the same time being utilized in an optimum manner, the screen can be moved along the dashboard in the horizontal direction.

Claims

1. A dashboard for a motor vehicle, comprising a screen for displaying information, the screen being arranged in front of the dashboard as seen by a vehicle occupant, wherein the screen is configured to be moved along the dashboard in the horizontal direction.

2. The dashboard for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the screen is configured to be moved by means of a linear drive.

3. The dashboard for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 2, wherein the linear drive is in a form of an electromechanical drive.

4. The dashboard for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 2, wherein the linear drive is in a form of an electrohydraulic drive.

5. The dashboard for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 3, further comprising an electronic memory which stores positions of the screen once the positions have been determined and which, drive the linear drive such that the screen moves to the stored position.