MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE WITH SMOOTH UPPER SURFACE

• US 20130155008A1
• Filed: 03/30/2011
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Autran, Frdric
• Granted Patent: US 9,189,111 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means

Abstract

The invention relates to a man-machine interface furnished with a viewing device (1, 9, 13, 16, 25, 26), in particular a tactile interaction device, disposed opposite a frame (2), characterized in that the upper face (9A) of the viewing device, in particular tactile interaction device, is disposed substantially above the upper face (4) of the frame and in that said device and said frame are covered with a smoothing him (8). Application to motor vehicle.

Claims

1. A human-machine interface comprising a viewing device arranged facing a frame, wherein a top face of the viewing device is arranged substantially above a top face of the frame and in that said device and said frame are covered by a smoothing film.

2. The interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the viewing device is covered with an adjustment layer for adjusting the position of the top face of said device in relation to the top face of the frame.

3. The interface as claimed in claim 1 wherein the frame is covered with a masking layer.

4. The interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the smoothing film comprises a masking layer.

5. The interface as claimed in claim 3, wherein the masking layer also covers at least a part of the top face of the viewing device.

6. The interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the distance between the top face of the viewing device and the top face of the frame does not exceed the thickness of the smoothing film.

7. The interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the distance between the top face of the viewing device and the top face of the frame is greater than a positioning tolerance of said faces relative to one another.

8. The interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein an edge of the viewing device, covered with an adjustment layer, is substantially in contact with an edge of the frame.

9. The interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the viewing device is a screen or a display.

10. The interface as claimed in claim 1, wherein the viewing device is a touch interaction device.

11. The interface as claimed in claim 10, wherein the touch interaction device comprises a touch sensor which is at least partially transparent arranged above a display.

12. The interface as claimed in claim 10, wherein, the touch interaction device having at least a part facing a bottom face of the frame, said part is fixed to said bottom face of said frame.

13. The interface as claimed in claim 10, wherein, the interaction device being incorporated in a case, the case comprises in a top part a shoulder to support the frame.