Monitor installed in dash panel of automobile and its usage

• US 6,354,649 B1
• Filed: 06/22/2000
• Issued: 03/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Won Jong Lee
• Original Assignee: Won Jong Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Won Jong
• Primary Examiner(s): Gordon, Stephen T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coletta, Lori L.
• Application Number:
  US09/599,803
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 296/37.1, 296/37.8, 296/37.12, 296/70, 348/837, 185/37, 185/39, 74/892, 74/892.2
• US Class Current: 296/70
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/53 Movable instruments, e.g. slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18832 including flexible drive connector [e.g., belt, chain, strand, etc.]

Abstract

A monitor installed in automobile'"'"'s dash panel (110), includes: a reception member (120) inserted in the upper portion of the dash panel (110), the member having a predetermined space and opened top; a lid (130) hinged on one side of the reception member (120) so that is selectively opened or closed; lid opening means for controlling the opening or closing the lid (130); and a monitor (140) installed in the reception member (120) and hinged on the top inner surface of the lid (130) so that it becomes selectively erect when the lid (130) is opened.

Claims

1. A monitor installed in dash panel of an automobile comprising:

a reception member inserted in an upper portion of the dash panel, the reception member having a predetermined space and opened top;

a lid hinged on one side of the reception member so that the lid is selectively opened or closed;

lid opening means for controlling the opening or closing of the lid; and

a monitor installed in the reception member and hinged on a top inner surface of the lid so that the monitor becomes selectively rect when the lid is opened;

wherein;

a roller installed on both lower sides of the monitor for moving a lower portion of the monitor to a predetermined position along a bottom of the reception member so that the monitor stands erect or lies;

a horizontal plate having a guiding groove for leading the roller, the horizontal plate being placed directly above the roller so that the monitor is mounted thereon;

a winding rope connected to the roller at a predetermined length;

a winding motor for pulling the roller and closing the lid by rolling the rope; and

a manipulation switch for rotating the winding motor forward or reversely.

2. The monitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lid is not protruded at the same plane of the dash panel when closed.

3. In a monitor in an upper portion of an automobile dash panel, the improvements comprising:

a lid hinged on one side to be moved to a position opened from the upper portion of the dash panel or a position closed thereto, a top of the lid not protruding from the upper portion of the dash panel when the lid is in the closed position;

a monitor hinged to a top of the lid in the opened position and on an inside of the lid in the closed position for becoming erected when the lid is in the opened position and having a roller on a lower portion for movement relative to the dash panel as the lid is moved to the opened and closed positions;

means for moving the lid to one of the opened or closed positions;

a rope connected to one of the dash panel and roller; and

means on the other of the dash panel and roller winding the rope to pull the roller for the movement relative to the dash panel as the lid is moved to the other of the opened or closed positions.