MECHANICALLY RECONFIGURABLE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER

• US 20170113552A1
• Filed: 01/09/2017
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alexander Albanese, Andrew Bianchi, Dale O. Cramer, James Paul Farell, Royce Duchante Channey
• Inventors: Channey, Royce Duchant, Bianchi, Andrew, Cramer, Dale O., Albanese, Alexander, Farell, James Paul
• Application Number:
  US15/401,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20170113552A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1515 Reconfigurable dials
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/197 Blocking or enabling of input functions
• 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 35/20 Output arrangements, i.e. from vehicle to user, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/211 producing three-dimensional [3D] effects, e.g. stereoscopic images
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/215 characterised by the combination of multiple visual outputs, e.g. combined instruments with analogue meters and additional displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• 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: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 1/18 yieldable or adjustable, e.g. tiltable padded linings associated with the steering column B60R21/05
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/28 Structurally-combined illuminating devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display

Abstract

A mechanically reconfigurable instrument cluster is provided. The mechanically reconfigurable instrument cluster includes a first display portion to display information of a first type, the first display portion includes a stem about the first display portion'"'"'s axis driven by a motor; a second display portion to display information of a second type, the second display portion being configured to move in an inward and outward direction.

Claims

1. A mechanically reconfigurable instrument cluster, comprising:

a first display portion to display information of a first type, the first display portion includes a stem about the first display portion'"'"'s axis driven by a motor, the first display portion including at least one mechanical gauge;

a second display portion to display information of a second type, the second display portion being configured to move in an inward and outward direction,

wherein in response to a signal instructing a transformation from a first mode to a second mode, the first display portion rotates about the axis, and the second display portion moves in the inward and the outward direction, the inward and outward direction being tangential to the axis.

2. The cluster according to claim 1, wherein the first display portion rotates about the axis before the second display portion is moves inward or outward.

3. The cluster according to claim 2, wherein the first display portion is a mechanical gauge, and the second display portion is a digital display.

4. The cluster according to claim 1, wherein the first mode pertains to a control of a vehicle.

5. The cluster according to claim 4, wherein the second mode pertains to a display of information via the second display portion.

6. The cluster according to claim 1, wherein the second mode is instigate from a transition to a non-autonomous driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.