INTEGRATED CENTER PANEL WITH ROTARY CONTROL

• US 20100214213A1
• Filed: 02/25/2009
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Inventors: Wingrove, Theodore Charles, Bowden, Upton Beall, Channey, Royce Duchante
• Application Number:
  US12/392,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20100214213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/126 Rotatable input devices for instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/143 Touch sensitive instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1442 Emulation of input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/145 Instrument input by combination of touch screen and hardware input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/50 Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle B60K35/231 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0338 with detection of limited linear or angular displacement of an operating part of the device from a neutral position, e.g. isotonic or isometric joysticks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A control panel includes a display for providing visual images to a user and a rotary control including a shaft extending through an aperture formed in the display and a rotary knob coupled to the shaft, wherein the rotary control manages a control feature associated with the rotary control.

Claims

1. A control panel comprising:

a display for providing visual images to a user; and

an X/Y control extending through an aperture formed in the display, wherein the X/Y control manages a control feature associated therewith.

2. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the control panel is integrated with a vehicle.

3. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the display includes a touch sensitive function.

4. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the display is one of a liquid crystal display, plasma, and OLED.

5. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the display includes at least one of a protective layer, a decorative layer, a conductive layer, a dielectric layer, a barrier layer, a conductive layer, and a substrate.

6. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the X/Y control is one of a rotary control, a joy stick, a lever, and combinations thereof coupled to a controller for translating a motion of the X/Y control into an electrical signal to manage the control feature.

7. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the X/Y control is a rotary encoder.

8. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein a function label representing the control feature associated with the X-Y control is generated on the display.

9. The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the user cycles through a plurality of the control features associated with the X/Y control by pressing at least one of the X/Y control and a touch sensitive indicia projected on the display.

10. A control panel comprising:

a display for providing visual images to a user;

a rotary control including a shaft extending through an aperture formed in the display and a rotary knob coupled to the shaft, wherein the display provides a graphical scale around the rotary knob for representing a level of a control feature associated with the rotary control.

11. The control panel according to claim 10, wherein the display includes a touch sensitive function.

12. The control panel according to claim 10, wherein the display is a liquid crystal display.

13. The control panel according to claim 10, wherein the shaft of the rotary control is coupled to a controller for translating a motion of the shaft into an electrical signal to manage the control feature associated with the rotary control.

14. The control panel according to claim 13, wherein the controller is a rotary encoder.

15. The control panel according to claim 10, wherein a function label representing the control feature associated with the rotary control is generated on the display.

16. The control panel according to claim 10, wherein the user cycles through a plurality of the control features associated with the rotary control by pressing at least one of the rotary knob and a touch sensitive indicia projected on the display.

17. A control panel for a vehicle comprising:

a display for providing visual images to a user, wherein the display includes a touch sensitive function;

a rotary control including a shaft extending through an aperture formed in the display screen and a rotary knob coupled to the shaft, wherein the display provides a graphical scale around the rotary knob for representing a level of a particular control feature associated with the rotary control;

a controller for translating a motion of the shaft into an electrical signal to manage the control feature associated with the rotary control; and

a control circuit to provide electrical intercommunication between a plurality of vehicle systems including the display and the controller.

18. The control panel according to claim 17, wherein the controller is a rotary encoder.

19. The control panel according to claim 17, wherein a function label representing the control feature associated with the rotary control is generated on the display.

20. The control panel according to claim 17, wherein the user cycles through a plurality of the control features associated with the rotary control by pressing at least one of the rotary knob and a touch sensitive indicia projected on the display.