ELECTRONIC CONTROL PANEL FOR MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20130222343A1
• Filed: 11/09/2011
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques (Valeo SE)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques (Valeo SE)
• Inventors: Huynh, Tan Duc
• Granted Patent: US 10,520,976 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• 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 2360/145 Instrument input by combination of touch screen and hardware input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/28 for instruments which are not visible when inactive
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/693 Cover plate features
• 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 35/425 Anti-reflection arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display

Abstract

The subject of the present invention is an electronic control panel (1) for a motor vehicle, characterized in that it comprises a touch-sensitive screen (3), a touch-sensitive control surface (5) contiguous with said touch-sensitive screen, and a common support (33) for the touch-sensitive screen (3) and for the touch-sensitive control surface (5), the touch-sensitive screen (3) and the touch-sensitive control surface (5) being arranged on the common support (33) at the same level where they meet so as to define a near-continuous control area.

Claims

1. An electronic control panel for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a clutch-sensitive screen;

a touch-sensitive control surface, contiguous with said clutch-sensitive screen; and

a common support for the touch-sensitive screen and for the touch-sensitive control surface;

the touch-sensitive screen and the touch-sensitive control surface being placed on the common support where they join at the same level so as to define a virtually continuous control plane.

2. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the touch-sensitive screen is covered with a transparent polycarbonate part coated with a nonreflecting varnish.

3. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the touch-sensitive control surface comprises a transparent polycarbonate part painted black on the face opposite to that designed to be facing a user and comprising functional pictograms.

4. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 3, wherein the pictograms are produced by laser scratching.

6. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 3, wherein the touch-sensitive screen is surrounded by the touch-sensitive control surface.

7. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein seen in a generally vertical plane, the touch-sensitive screen is placed above the touch-sensitive control surface.

8. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the touch-sensitive control surface is curved.

9. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the touch-sensitive control surface also comprises at least one rotary control button passing through said surface.

5. The electronic control panel for a motor vehicle as claimed in claim wherein the touch-sensitive control surface comprises a capacitive film bonded to the face opposite to that designed to be facing a user.