CN112440882B - System and method for placing articles in car trunk and car comprising system - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to an automobile luggage compartment object placement system and an automobile comprising the same. The article placement system includes: one or a plurality of rotating member modules arranged in a predetermined format, each rotating member module including at least one rotating member, each rotating member rotatably disposed below the trunk lid and configured such that a portion of an outer peripheral surface thereof is exposed above the trunk lid so as to be capable of frictional contact with an article in the trunk; and at least one driver disposed below the trunk deck, each driver being configured to drive at least one of the rotating members to rotate in a predetermined direction in accordance with a control signal received from the control device. The invention also relates to a method for placing articles in the trunk of an automobile by using the article placing system.
Description
Technical Field
The present invention relates to the field of trunk/trunk of automobiles, and more particularly to a system for facilitating the placement of items in an automobile trunk.
Background
Today more and more owners pursue a spatially large luggage compartment, but the large size of the luggage compartment also brings about some inconveniences. For example, existing sedans and SUV luggage cases typically have a length dimension of 1000mm to 1800mm, and if an object is to be placed on the front side of the luggage case or removed therefrom, it is generally necessary to push and pull the edges of the object with great effort while bending over to tilt the body forward to accomplish the object of picking and placing the object, which is more laborious if the object is heavy, especially for female owners. In addition, if some scattered articles are placed in the luggage compartment, especially on the front side of the luggage compartment, the placement (placement and transposition on the position, etc.) of each article according to the thought of the car owner is also tedious and laborious, and also requires that people repeatedly bend over to tilt the body forward, which is very inconvenient to operate.
The object of the present invention is to solve at least the above problems in the prior art.
Disclosure of Invention
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided an automotive trunk item placement system comprising: one or a plurality of rotating member modules arranged in a predetermined format, each rotating member module including at least one rotating member, each rotating member rotatably disposed below the trunk lid and configured such that a portion of an outer peripheral surface thereof is exposed above the trunk lid so as to be capable of frictional contact with an article in the trunk; and at least one driver disposed below the trunk deck, each driver being configured to drive at least one of the rotating members to rotate in a predetermined direction in accordance with a control signal received from the control device.
According to one exemplary configuration, the driver is configured to receive a wireless control signal from a mobile terminal device as the control device or a wired or wireless control signal from a vehicle computer as the control device.
According to one exemplary configuration, the mobile terminal device comprises a smart phone for a vehicle occupant.
According to one exemplary configuration, the rotating member is a roller, a roller or a belt drive, the direction of the axis of rotation of which is constant.
According to one exemplary configuration, the driver is a stepper motor capable of rotating forward or reverse a predetermined angle according to a control signal it receives.
According to one exemplary configuration, each rotating member module includes two or more rotating members arranged in an L-shape or T-shape relative to each other when viewed perpendicularly to the trunk lid, and the rotating member arrangement is the same in all rotating member modules.
According to one exemplary configuration, the predetermined format is a grid-like shape arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns in the longitudinal direction and the width direction of the automobile, respectively.
According to one exemplary configuration, in each rotating member module either or both sides of the L-shape or T-shape comprise two coaxially arranged rotating members in driving connection with the same driver.
According to one exemplary configuration, the trunk lid includes at least two regions, at least one of a diameter, a length, and a placement density of the rotating member within each region being different from a corresponding at least one of a diameter, a length, and a placement density of the rotating member within at least one other region.
According to one exemplary embodiment, the stepper motor is connected to the rotary member in a drive manner via a worm gear or a universal joint.
According to one exemplary configuration, at least one of the rotating members is an auxiliary rotating member that is not in driving connection with the driver and is selectively capable of being in a free-rotating state or a rotation-restricting state by a controlled stop mechanism.
According to one exemplary configuration, the system further comprises a plurality of gravitational sensors associated with each rotating member disposed below the trunk lid, and/or a camera disposed in the trunk, the gravitational sensors and the camera being configured to detect positional information of the target article on the trunk lid and to send the positional information to the control device for the control device to issue a control signal based on the positional information.
According to a second aspect of the present invention there is provided an automobile comprising an automobile trunk item placement system as described above.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of placing an article in an automobile trunk using the automobile trunk article placement system as described above, wherein a user interface of the automobile trunk article placement system is displayed on a display screen of a mobile terminal device or an on-board computer as the control device, the user interface including a divided area image corresponding to a trunk lid, each rotating member unit being positionally corresponding to one area in the image, each rotating member unit being constituted by at least one rotating member drivingly connected to the same driver; wherein position information of an article in the luggage compartment on the luggage compartment cover is detected and updated when a change in the position information is detected, the method comprising the steps of: (a) Marking at least one area corresponding to the position of the target object on the trunk cover plate in the image according to the position information of the target object; (b) Detecting finger movements of a user in one or more selected areas including the at least one area and determining rotation information of a rotation member unit corresponding to the selected area according to the finger movements; (c) Transmitting the rotation information to a driver of a rotation member unit corresponding to the selected area to drive the corresponding rotation member to rotate according to the rotation information so that the target object moves accordingly; (d) Repeating steps (a) to (c) until the target object moves to the target position.
According to one exemplary configuration, the region of the image corresponding to each rotating member unit further includes indicia representing a possible direction of rotation of the rotating member in that rotating member unit.
According to one exemplary configuration, the finger action includes clicking and directional sliding in a user interface.
According to one exemplary configuration, step (c) further comprises displaying a characterization identifier characterizing the target item at a corresponding location in the image based on the location information.
According to one exemplary configuration, step (d) includes detecting sequential or continuous finger movements of the user in the plurality of selected areas and displaying in the image a path of movement of the article corresponding to the sequential or continuous finger movements.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided another method of placing an article in an automobile trunk using the automobile trunk article placement system as described above, wherein a user interface of the automobile trunk article placement system including an image corresponding to a trunk lid is displayed on a display screen of a mobile terminal device or an on-vehicle computer as the control device; wherein position information of an article in the luggage compartment on the luggage compartment cover is detected and updated when a change in the position information is detected, said article being displayed on said image in accordance with said position information, said method comprising the steps of: (a) Detecting a first operation of a user on the user interface or the control device and selecting a target object according to the first operation; (b) Detecting a second operation of a user on the user interface or the control device and determining at least one section of moving path of the target object according to the second operation; (c) Determining rotational information of at least one rotational member associated with the at least one path of movement of the target article; (d) And a driver which is in driving connection with the at least one rotating member drives the at least one rotating member to rotate according to the rotation information so as to correspondingly move the target object.
According to one exemplary configuration, the first and/or second operation comprises a finger action by a user on the user interface or a key operation on the control device.
According to one exemplary configuration, the step (b) includes detecting a finger click position of a user on the user interface as a target position of a target object and calculating a movement path from a current position of the target object to the target position.
According to one exemplary configuration, step (b) includes detecting a finger slip of the user on the user interface and determining a finger slip trajectory as at least one path of movement of the target item.
With the car trunk article placement system and method as described above, desired movement of trunk articles can be achieved by simply and intuitively performing a visual operation on a mobile terminal device or a car-mounted computer screen, whereby trunk articles can be placed in place without difficulty.
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fig. 1 is a schematic view showing an automobile trunk provided with an article placement system according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a trunk deck and an exemplary rotating member disposed therebelow.
Fig. 3 shows a schematic view of a worm gear mechanism driving a motor to a rotating member.
Fig. 4 schematically illustrates a first exemplary arrangement of rotating member modules.
Fig. 5 schematically illustrates a second exemplary arrangement of rotating member modules.
Fig. 6 schematically illustrates a third exemplary arrangement of rotating member modules.
Fig. 7 schematically illustrates a fourth exemplary arrangement of rotating member modules.
Fig. 8 shows an exemplary user interface of the car trunk item placement system according to the present invention displayed on a screen of a smart phone as an example of the control device and a schematic view of user operations on the user interface.
The figures are merely schematic and not necessarily to scale, and they show only those parts which are necessary in order to elucidate the invention, other parts may be omitted or merely mentioned. That is, the present invention may include other parts or elements in addition to those shown in the drawings.
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The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 schematically illustrates an exemplary car trunk in which a plurality of articles are placed on a trunk deck 100. The articles can be simply placed at the respective desired positions by using the system and the method for placing articles in the car trunk according to the invention.
As shown in fig. 2, the article placement system for a trunk of an automobile according to the present invention includes one or more rotating members 10 as an essential element. Each of the rotating members is rotatably disposed below the trunk lid 100 and is configured such that a portion of its outer peripheral surface is exposed from above the trunk lid 100 so as to be capable of frictional contact with articles in the trunk. This frictional contact causes the rotating member 10 to rotate, which causes the articles in contact therewith to move forward on the trunk lid 100 in the direction of rotation. In the illustrated embodiment, the rotating member 10 is in the form of a roller with its axis of rotation oriented in the longitudinal direction of the roller and is capable of providing a greater range of contact with the article in the direction of the axis of rotation. The roller outer layer may be rubber or other material to increase friction in contact with the article. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the rotating member 10 may be a roller (the length or thickness in the direction of the rotation axis is small) or a belt transmission mechanism (the belt of which also rotates around the rotation axis and can provide a large contact range with the article both in the direction along the rotation axis and in the direction perpendicular to the rotation axis).
In order to enable rotation of the rotating member 10, the car trunk item placement system according to the present invention further comprises at least one driver arranged below the trunk lid 100, each driver being configured to drive the at least one rotating member 10 to rotate in a predetermined direction in accordance with a control signal it receives from a control device. The control means may be, for example, a mobile terminal device (typically a smart phone for a vehicle occupant) or a car computer, and the control signal may be a wireless control signal from the mobile terminal device or a wired or wireless control signal from the car computer, respectively.
As the driver, a motor, for example, a stepping motor capable of rotating forward or backward by a predetermined angle according to a control signal received thereto, is conventionally used, so that the rotating member 10 is driven to rotate selectively in the forward or backward direction by a predetermined angle, respectively, to move the corresponding article forward or backward by a predetermined distance.
The drive may be drivingly connected to the rotating member 10 via a transmission. For example, fig. 3 shows that a motor (not shown) is connected to a rotating member 10 (illustrated in the figure as a roller) through a worm gear mechanism constituted by a worm wheel X and a worm Y. One motor may drive one rotating member 10 (see fig. 3 (b)) or two coaxially arranged rotating members 10 (see fig. 3 (c)) through a worm gear, whereby the number of motors may be reduced. In addition to worm gears, the motor may be drivingly connected to the rotating member 10, such as by a universal joint transmission or any other suitable transmission known in the art, so long as the appropriate power transmission direction and gear ratio is achieved as desired.
In order to enable articles to travel along a particular path on the trunk deck to a target location, one or more rotating members arranged in a particular orientation may be formed as rotating member modules and/or one or more such rotating member modules may be arranged in a predetermined format. Fig. 4-7 show examples of a plurality of rotating member modules arranged in a predetermined format from a perspective looking perpendicular to the trunk lid 100.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 4, each of the rotating member modules (one of which is framed with a chain line) includes two rotating members 10 arranged in an L-shape with respect to each other, and a plurality of such rotating member modules are arranged in a grid-like format arranged in a plurality of rows and columns in a longitudinal direction (corresponding to a vertical direction in the drawing) and a width direction (corresponding to a lateral direction in the drawing) of the automobile, respectively. In the embodiment of fig. 4, the two rotating members 10 in each rotating member module are each connected to one drive 5 (e.g. a motor) via a transmission mechanism.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 5, each of the rotating member modules (one of which is framed with a chain line) includes two rotating members 10 arranged in a T-shape with respect to each other, and a plurality of such rotating member modules are also arranged in a grid-like format arranged in a plurality of rows and columns in the longitudinal direction (corresponding to the vertical direction in the drawing) and the width direction (corresponding to the lateral direction in the drawing) of the automobile, respectively.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 6, each rotating member module (one of which is framed with a dash-dot line) comprises four rotating members 10 arranged in an L-shape with respect to each other, wherein both sides of the L-shape comprise two coaxially arranged rotating members 10 in driving connection with the same driver 5. In addition, a plurality of such rotating member modules are also arranged in a grid-like format arranged in a plurality of rows and columns in the longitudinal direction (corresponding to the vertical direction in the drawing) and the width direction (corresponding to the lateral direction in the drawing) of the automobile, respectively.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 4-6, the rotating members 10 in each rotating member module are arranged in an L-shape or T-shape with respect to each other, such that in each rotating member module the articles in contact therewith can be moved in two dimensions perpendicular to each other, whereby a movement in the plane of the trunk deck can be achieved. It is to be readily understood that the "L-shape" and "T-shape" described herein are not limited to the form of the letters L and T in a normal posture, but also cover the form in which the letters L and T are turned upside down and left-right or even after being turned at an arbitrary angle in the plane thereof. In addition, the total number of the rotating members 10 arranged in an L-shape or a T-shape in each rotating member module is not limited, and may be any number of two or more.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 6, both sides of the L-shape include two coaxially arranged rotating members 10 in driving connection with the same driver 5, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and either side of the L-shape may include such two rotating members 10. Furthermore, for the T-shaped arrangement of the rotating member modules shown in fig. 5, either or both sides of the T-shape may also be provided to comprise two coaxially arranged rotating members 10 in driving connection with the same drive.
Further, the rotational member arrangements in the respective rotational member modules may also be different from each other, for example, the rotational member modules in a T-shaped arrangement and the rotational member modules in an L-shaped arrangement may be mixed together and the T-shaped or L-shaped arrangement therein may in turn include different types of T-shapes or L-shapes, respectively (for example, the rotational member modules in an L-shaped arrangement shown in fig. 4 and the rotational member modules in an L-shaped arrangement shown in fig. 6 may also be mixed together).
Further, the plurality of rotating members in each rotating member module is not limited to the T-shaped or L-shaped arrangement described above, but may be any suitable arrangement designed as desired in combination with the number of rotating members.
In addition, the arrangement format between the plurality of rotating member modules with respect to each other is not limited to the above-described mesh-like arrangement in a plurality of rows and columns in the longitudinal direction and the width direction of the automobile, respectively, but may be a mesh-like arrangement inclined with respect to the longitudinal direction and the width direction of the automobile, or other arrangement forms other than the mesh-like arrangement. In summary, the individual rotating member modules may be arranged in any format as desired, so long as the desired path of movement of the article on the trunk deck can be planned.
In the embodiment shown in fig. 7, the trunk lid 100 is divided into two areas, wherein the length (i.e., the span in the direction of the rotation axis) and the placement density (i.e., the number of rotation members per lid area) of the rotation members 10 in one area are different from the length and the placement density of the rotation members 10' in the other area, thereby moving the luggage items of different sizes. The user may also choose to place luggage of a corresponding size based on the region. Of course, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the trunk lid 100 may be divided into three or more regions, and at least one of the diameter (i.e., the span in the direction perpendicular to the rotation axis), the length, and the placement density of the rotating member in each region may be set to be different from the corresponding at least one of the diameter, the length, and the placement density of the rotating member in at least one other region. The respective areas may be configured and divided according to the vehicle model and actual demands for the user (e.g., a common size of luggage items, the number and size of fixedly stored items).
In the above-described embodiment, the rotating member 10 is in the form of a roller, or a belt transmission mechanism whose direction of the rotation axis is constant. However, it is also conceivable that the rotating member 10 takes the form of balls or universal wheels, for example, which can selectively change the direction of the rotation axis by means of electromagnetic driving. In this case, the inclusion of one rotating member 10 in each rotating member module enables rotation in various directions.
In addition, at least one of the rotating members 10 may be designed as an auxiliary rotating member that is not in driving connection with the driver and can be selectively placed in a free-rotating state or a rotation-restricting state by a controlled stopping mechanism. In the free rotation state, the auxiliary rotation member does not provide power to the movement of the article in contact with the auxiliary rotation member, but can convert sliding friction between the article and the cover plate into rolling friction, thereby assisting the movement of the article. The auxiliary rotating member helps to keep the article in place by friction between it and the article while in the rotation-restricting state, avoiding unintentional movement of the article when, for example, the car jolts or sudden brakes.
A method of placing items in an automobile trunk using the automobile trunk item placement system described above is described below in connection with fig. 8. As shown in fig. 8, a user interface of the car trunk item placement system, which includes an image corresponding to the trunk lid 100, is displayed on a display screen of a mobile terminal device (a smart phone as shown in the drawing) or a car-mounted computer as a control device. Wherein the system detects position information of items in the luggage compartment on the luggage compartment cover and updates the position information when a change in the position information is detected, the items being displayed on the image in accordance with the position information (as shown in the right-hand part of fig. 8). In the present invention, the positional information of the articles may be acquired, for example, by a plurality of gravitational sensors associated with the respective rotating members 10 disposed below the trunk lid and/or a camera disposed in the trunk. When an item is pressed against one or more of the rotating members 10, the gravity sensors associated with those rotating members will detect the weight of the item, the position of the gravity sensors being indicative of the position of the item on the trunk lid. Alternatively, the position of the respective item on the cover plate is identified and determined by image recognition techniques by capturing an image of the item and the cover plate in the luggage compartment with a camera. The position information acquired for a certain target item may be sent by a corresponding gravity sensor and/or camera to the control device, which may update the position information when a change in the position information is detected or identified, thereby tracking the movement of the target item on the trunk lid in real time. Thus, upon opening the user interface, individual items on the trunk lid may be displayed at corresponding locations in the image on the user interface according to their specific locations on the trunk lid, and these locations may be updated, for example, in real time, according to the movement of the items.
In the image, a simple identification may be used to characterize the individual items, for example, the same small icon is used for all items, in which case individual items can only be distinguished according to their position. Of course, the different items may be characterized using a characterization identifier, for example, icons with different numbers may be used for the different items, or a characterization icon (e.g., a simulated icon matching the outline of the item) may be used that identifies the type or size of the different items.
When it is desired to move the target item, first, the system detects a first operation by the user on the user interface or the control device and selects the target item according to the first operation. For example, the user may look at the identity of different items in the image to find the target item that is desired to be moved, and select the target item by clicking the identity of the target item with a finger on the screen of a cell phone or a car center console (car-mounted computer), which is the first operation that can be detected by the system. The identity of the selected item may be highlighted or flash in the image to indicate that it is in the selected state. Alternatively, the user may directly operate physical keys on the control device to select the target item. For example, the number key corresponding to the number on an icon of an article in the image may be directly pressed to select the article, or a direction key (such as a volume up/down key or four keys arranged in a cross shape on a keyboard of the mobile phone) on the mobile phone or a console of the automobile may be controlled to enable each article identifier in the user interface to flash in sequence, and when the identifier of the target article flashes, another confirmation key may be pressed to select the article.
The system then detects a second operation by the user on the user interface or the control device and determines at least one path of movement of the target item based on the second operation. For example, the user may directly click a position on the screen of the cell phone or car center console with a finger or select a position in the image using a key operation on the cell phone or car center console (these are both second operations that can be detected by the system) as the target position of the selected target item, and then calculate, by the system, a movement path from the current position of the target item to the target position based on the positions of the items in the current trunk and a predetermined algorithm. Alternatively, the user may slide his finger by himself over the user interface a distance (which is also a second operation that may be detected by the system) and the system detects the finger's sliding track as at least one movement path of the target object (e.g., the directional arrow shown in the right-hand portion of fig. 8 may represent such finger sliding track, i.e., at least one movement path of the target object).
Next, the system determines rotational information of at least one rotating member associated with the at least one path of movement of the target article. That is, after the moving path is determined, the rotating member and its rotation information (such as the rotation direction, the rotation speed, etc.) related to the moving path can be determined.
Finally, a driver in driving connection with the at least one rotating member drives the at least one rotating member to rotate according to the rotation information so as to correspondingly move the target object.
In another embodiment of the method according to the present invention, the user interface may be made to include a partial area image (a grid-like partial area image as shown in the left-hand portion of fig. 8) corresponding to the trunk lid 100. The rotary member units may be divided based on the driver, each of the rotary member units being constituted by at least one rotary member drivingly connected to the same driver, and each of the rotary member units positionally corresponding to one region in the image. In the image, the area corresponding to each rotating member unit may include an identification (such as a directional arrow) indicating a possible rotational direction of the rotating member in that rotating member unit, so that the user knows in which direction the item is likely to be operated to move in that area. Likewise, the position information of the articles in the luggage compartment on the luggage compartment cover is detected by means of a gravitational sensor and/or a camera and updated when a change in the position information is detected. If the target item in the luggage compartment is to be moved, the following steps may be performed:
(a) At least one region corresponding to the position of the target item on the trunk lid is marked in the image based on the position information of the target item. Since the size of the target object may be spread over multiple drives and rotating members, there may also be more than one area in the image corresponding to the position of the target object. All of the items in the trunk may be individually indicated in the image with their respective areas highlighted or blinking, for example. In addition, a characterization mark (such as a numbered icon or a characterization icon matched with the type, the appearance and/or the size of the article) for characterizing the article can be optionally additionally displayed on the area corresponding to each article in the image, so that a user can easily identify the target article to be moved.
(b) A finger motion of a user in one or more selected areas including the at least one area is detected and rotation information (e.g., a rotation direction, etc.) of the rotation member unit corresponding to the selected area is determined based on the finger motion. Here, the finger action may include clicking and directional sliding in a user interface. For example, when the user clicks on a certain directional arrow in the at least one region corresponding to the target article or slides in the direction of the certain directional arrow in the at least one region (a finger sliding motion as shown in the left part of fig. 8), it indicates that the user wishes to operate the driver corresponding to the region so that it drives the corresponding rotating member to rotate in the direction indicated by the directional arrow and moves the article in the corresponding direction. Alternatively, the system may detect sequential or continuous finger movements of the user in a plurality of selected areas and display an article moving route corresponding to the sequential or continuous finger movements in the image, whereby the rotation information of the rotating member unit involved in the article moving route can also be determined.
(c) And transmitting the rotation information to a driver of the rotation member unit corresponding to the selected area to drive the corresponding rotation member to rotate according to the rotation information so as to correspondingly move the target object.
(d) Repeating steps (a) to (c) until the target object moves to the target position.
As described above, with the car trunk article placement system and the corresponding method of placing articles in a car trunk according to the present invention, desired movement of trunk articles can be achieved by simply and intuitively performing a visual operation on a mobile terminal device or a car computer screen, whereby the trunk articles can be placed in place without difficulty.
What has been described above is merely illustrative of the embodiments of the present invention with respect to the spirit and principles of the invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes may be made to the described embodiments without departing from the spirit and principles and that such changes and equivalents are intended to be included within the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.
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1. An automotive trunk item placement system comprising:
a plurality of rotating member modules arranged in a predetermined format, each rotating member module including at least one rotating member, each rotating member rotatably disposed below the trunk lid and configured such that a portion of an outer peripheral surface thereof is exposed from above the trunk lid so as to be capable of frictional contact with an article in the trunk; and
at least one driver disposed below the trunk deck, each driver being configured to drive at least one of the rotating members to rotate in a predetermined direction in accordance with a control signal received from the control device,
wherein the driver is configured to receive a wireless control signal from a mobile terminal device as the control means or a wired or wireless control signal from a vehicle computer as the control means to control the driver by a visual operation on the mobile terminal device or a vehicle computer screen to achieve a desired movement and placement of the items in the luggage compartment.
2. The vehicle trunk item placement system of claim 1, wherein,
the mobile terminal device comprises a smart phone for an automobile occupant.
3. The automobile trunk item placement system of claim 1 or 2, wherein,
the rotating member is a roller, a roller or a belt drive mechanism with a constant direction of the axis of rotation.
4. The automobile trunk item placement system of claim 3, wherein,
the driver is a stepping motor capable of rotating forward or backward by a predetermined angle according to a control signal received by the driver.
5. The vehicle trunk item presentation system of claim 4, wherein,
each of the rotating member modules includes two or more rotating members that are arranged in an L-shape or a T-shape with respect to each other when viewed perpendicularly to the trunk lid, and the rotating members in all the rotating member modules are arranged in the same manner.
6. The vehicle trunk item presentation system of claim 5, wherein,
the predetermined format is a grid shape arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns along the length direction and the width direction of the automobile, respectively.
7. The vehicle trunk item presentation system of claim 5, wherein,
in each rotating member module either one or both sides of the L-shape or T-shape comprise two coaxially arranged rotating members in driving connection with the same drive.
8. The vehicle trunk item presentation system of claim 5, wherein,
the trunk deck includes at least two regions, at least one of a diameter, a length, and a placement density of the rotating member within each region being different from a corresponding at least one of a diameter, a length, and a placement density of the rotating member within at least one other region.
9. The vehicle trunk item presentation system of claim 4, wherein,
the stepping motor is in driving connection with the rotating member through a worm gear transmission mechanism or a universal joint transmission mechanism.
10. The automobile trunk item placement system of claim 1 or 2, wherein,
at least one of the rotating members is an auxiliary rotating member that is not drivingly connected to the driver and is selectively capable of being in a free-rotating state or a limited-rotating state by a controlled stop mechanism.
11. The automobile trunk item placement system of claim 1 or 2, wherein,
and a plurality of gravity sensors disposed below the trunk deck and associated with the respective rotating members, and/or a camera disposed in the trunk, the gravity sensors and the camera being configured to detect positional information of the target article on the trunk deck and to transmit the positional information to the control device so that the control device issues a control signal based on the positional information.
12. An automobile characterized by comprising an automobile trunk item placement system according to any one of claims 1 to 11.
13. A method of placing an article in an automobile trunk using the automobile trunk article placement system according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein a user interface of the automobile trunk article placement system is displayed on a display screen of a mobile terminal device or an on-board computer as the control means, the user interface including a divided area image corresponding to a trunk lid, each rotating member unit being positionally corresponding to one area in the image, each rotating member unit being constituted by at least one rotating member drivingly connected to the same driver; wherein position information of an article in the luggage compartment on the luggage compartment cover is detected and updated when a change in the position information is detected,
the method comprises the following steps:
(a) Marking at least one area corresponding to the position of the target object on the trunk cover plate in the image according to the position information of the target object;
(b) Detecting finger movements of a user in one or more selected areas including the at least one area and determining rotation information of a rotation member unit corresponding to the selected area according to the finger movements;
(c) Transmitting the rotation information to a driver of a rotation member unit corresponding to the selected area to drive the corresponding rotation member to rotate according to the rotation information so that the target object moves accordingly;
(d) Repeating steps (a) to (c) until the target object moves to the target position.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe is performed,
the region of the image corresponding to each of the rotating member units further includes an indication of a possible direction of rotation of the rotating member in that rotating member unit.
15. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe is performed,
the finger actions include clicking and directional sliding in a user interface.
16. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe is performed,
the step (c) further comprises displaying a characterization identifier characterizing the target item at a corresponding location in the image based on the location information.
17. The method of claim 13, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe is performed,
the step (d) includes detecting sequential or continuous finger movements of the user in the plurality of selected areas and displaying an article moving route corresponding to the sequential or continuous finger movements in the image.
18. A method of placing an article in an automobile trunk using the automobile trunk article placement system according to any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein a user interface of the automobile trunk article placement system is displayed on a display screen of a mobile terminal device or an on-board computer as the control device, the user interface including an image corresponding to a trunk lid; wherein position information of an article in the luggage compartment on the luggage compartment cover is detected and updated when a change in the position information is detected, the article being displayed on the image in accordance with the position information,
the method comprises the following steps:
(a) Detecting a first operation of a user on the user interface or the control device and selecting a target object according to the first operation;
(b) Detecting a second operation of a user on the user interface or the control device and determining at least one section of moving path of the target object according to the second operation;
(c) Determining rotational information of at least one rotational member associated with the at least one path of movement of the target article;
(d) And a driver which is in driving connection with the at least one rotating member drives the at least one rotating member to rotate according to the rotation information so as to correspondingly move the target object.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,
the first and/or second operations comprise a finger action by a user on the user interface or a key operation on the control device.
20. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,
the step (b) includes detecting a finger click position of a user on the user interface as a target position of a target object and calculating a movement path from a current position of the target object to the target position.
21. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,
the step (b) includes detecting a finger slip of a user on the user interface and determining a finger slip trajectory as at least one movement path of a target item.
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