Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K37/00—Dashboards
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K35/00—Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
  • B60K35/50—Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K2360/00—Indexing scheme associated with groups B60K35/00 or B60K37/00 relating to details of instruments or dashboards
  • B60K2360/40—Hardware adaptations for dashboards or instruments
  • B60K2360/46—Electrical connections
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K2360/00—Indexing scheme associated with groups B60K35/00 or B60K37/00 relating to details of instruments or dashboards
  • B60K2360/828—Mounting or fastening exchangeable modules
  • B60K2360/834—Docking arrangements
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K2360/00—Indexing scheme associated with groups B60K35/00 or B60K37/00 relating to details of instruments or dashboards
  • B60K2360/84—Mounting of dashboard components

Definitions

• the present invention relates generally to an insert for a dashboard mounted on a motor vehicle.
• the present invention further relates to a motor vehicle dashboard comprising an insert, and a motor vehicle comprising an insert.
• the invention finally relates to a method for mounting an electrical device in a dashboard.
• US20100259063 discloses such an arrangement. This complicates the assembly of an electrical appliance to a dashboard, since several elements are required. In addition, this arrangement does not prevent to trap the harness between the electrical device and the support insert or other dashboard elements when mounting the electrical device to the dashboard.
• An object of the present invention is to meet the disadvantages of the document of the prior art mentioned above and in particular, firstly, to reduce the number of parts required for a dashboard of a motor vehicle.
• a second object of the present invention is to avoid damage to a wiring harness by jamming, crushing or pinching, between a dashboard element and an electrical device to be connected, when mounting the electrical device to said board of edge.
• a first aspect of the invention relates to a dashboard insert motor vehicle, arranged to be mounted on a dashboard and receive an electrical device connected to a segment of electrical harness connected for example to the vehicle edge network, the insert comprising a wall, characterized in that said wall comprises an inflection arranged to leave a space in the electric harness segment between a portion of said wall and the electrical apparatus.
• the geometry of the wall of the insert is adapted to leave a housing to an electric beam segment between said wall and the electrical appliance by defining for example a wall panel inclined towards the opposite side of the wall. electrical apparatus, a groove or rounded to house the harness segment near the electrical apparatus to which it is connected.
• An insert according to the present invention thus allows both to receive an electrical device in a dashboard of a motor vehicle, but also a beam segment connecting to the electrical device.
• the beam segment can slide in the space released by the inflection of the wall during assembly of the electrical device to the dashboard and thus avoid being damaged by its wedging between the insert and the electrical appliance.
• said inflection separates the wall into a first portion arranged to accommodate an electrical apparatus and a second portion having a slope more progressive than said first portion and / or axially offset towards the bottom of the dashboard relative to said first portion, so as to house an electrical harness segment.
• a wall is easy and inexpensive to manufacture, for example by injection molding, and allows to clear a space to accommodate different segments of electrical harness having diameters and / or different rigidities.
• the sliding of the electric beam segment along the wall to the accommodating space is facilitated during assembly of the electrical device to the dashboard.
• the insert is provided in an opening of said dashboard and said wall is positioned in the lower part of said opening.
• the electrical apparatus is an instrumentation handset.
• the electrical apparatus may comprise any electrical apparatus usually accommodated in a vehicle dashboard such as a ventilation control system, an audio-video installation control system or a multimedia screen.
• At least a portion of the wall is arranged between a dashboard cross member and the electric harness segment.
• This configuration of the insert avoids any deterioration related to the contact between the harness segment and the dashboard crossmember.
• a second aspect of the invention is a dashboard for a motor vehicle, said dashboard comprising an aperture adapted to receive an electrical apparatus, an electric harness segment for connecting the electrical apparatus to an on-board electrical system. vehicle, and an insert according to the first aspect of the invention.
• a dashboard can receive an electrical device without risk of deterioration of the wiring harness segment connecting, thanks to the geometry of the insert.
• such a dashboard does not include additional element and is therefore no more expensive than a dashboard according to the state of the art.
• said dashboard comprises an electrical device, for example a combined instrumentation.
• a third aspect of the invention relates to a method of mounting an electrical apparatus to a motor vehicle dashboard according to the second aspect of the invention, comprising the steps of:
• a final aspect of the invention consists of a motor vehicle, comprising a dashboard according to the second aspect of the invention or a dashboard insert according to the first aspect of the invention.
• a vehicle is easy to manufacture, does not have additional cost related to an additional element and also avoids possible electronic problems by preserving the harness of any deterioration.
• FIG. 1 shows a front view of a dashboard of a motor vehicle equipped with a dashboard insert according to the present invention
• FIG. 2 shows a side sectional view of a dashboard of a motor vehicle equipped with a dashboard insert according to the present invention when mounting an instrumentation handset.
• FIG 1 shows a dashboard 10 comprising an opening 1 1 partially closed by a perforated bottom 12.
• the opening 1 1 is intended to accommodate a combined instrumentation according to the state of the art (not visible on Figure 1) and including for example a speedometer, a tachometer, date and time or navigation information.
• An electric harness segment 30 is passed through the cavity 1 1 and is provided with a connector 31 adapted to connect the instrumentation unit to the vehicle's onboard network (not shown).
• This electrical harness segment 30 is a portion of an electrical harness, according to the state of the art, intended to supply the instrumentation handset the necessary power supply and the information to display, such as vehicle speed or engine speed.
• An insert 40 according to the present invention is mounted on the lower part of the opening 1 1 and comprises a wall 41 fixed to the dashboard 10 by fixing interfaces according to the state of the art.
• the wall 41 is intended to receive the instrumentation handset and to allow an interlocking or a fixation of the instrumentation handset in the opening 1 1 of the dashboard 10.
• the wall 41 further comprises an inflection 42 which separates the wall 41 in a first portion 41a for receiving the instrumentation instrument and a second portion 41b which has a slope relative to a horizontal surface, more progressive than the slope of the first portion 41a. In Figures 1 and 2, the first portion 41a is located below the second portion 41b.
• the insert 40 is made of rigid polymer or composite, such as polypropylene, high density polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), by any adapted technique and in particular injection-molding.
• the insert 40 may comprise metal such as aluminum or steel.
• FIG. 2 shows a side sectional view of a dashboard of a motor vehicle 10 equipped with a dashboard cross 60 and an insert 40 as shown in Figure 1, when mounting d an instrumentation unit 50 according to the arrow shown in FIG.
• the insert 40 is first fixed or nested in the lower part of the opening 1 1 of the dashboard 10
• the instrumentation handset is then connected to the harness segment 30 and then assembled in the opening 1 1 of the dashboard 10 on the insert 40.
• the bottom 51 of the instrumentation handset 50 as opposed to the transparent wall 52 which allows the driver to see the edge information, therefore comes into contact with the first portion 41 of the wall 41 of the insert 40.
• the electric harness segment 30 is pushed back by the bottom 51 to the second portion 41b, as visible in FIG. 2.
• the electric beam segment 30 can come into direct contact with the second portion 41b and then remains in this position visible in FIG.
• the electric harness segment Due to the inflection 42 of the wall 41, which allows the second portion 41b to adopt a more gradual slope than that of the first portion 41a, the electric harness segment is not taken at trapped and wedged between the bottom 51 of the instrumentation unit 50 and the wall 41 of the insert 40. The risk of seeing the harness segment 30 deteriorated during the mounting operation of the instrumentation unit 50 is therefore discarded or greatly decreased.
• the electric harness segment 30 located near the electrical apparatus, in particular along the bottom 51 of the electrical apparatus is housed on the second portion 41b once the vehicle is assembled.
• This housing thus preserves the electrical harness segment 30 from any degradation related to the contact between the electrical harness segment 30 and the dashboard cross member 60 or with other elements of the dashboard 10, both during the assembly of the instrumentation unit 50 but also during the use of the vehicle.
• the location of the second portion 41b of the wall 41, between the dashboard cross 60 and the bottom 51 of the instrumentation unit 50, is particularly advantageous.
• the wall 41 of the insert 40 can accommodate the electric harness segment 30 before mounting the instrumentation unit 50 to the dashboard 10, that is to say between the step assembly of the insert 40 to the dashboard 10 and the step of connecting the electric beam segment 30 to the instrumentation unit 50.
• the electric beam segment 30 can thus be placed on the wall 41, in particular on the second portion 41b, and avoid ironing through the opening 1 1 of the dashboard 10 and therefore fall into an area of the motor vehicle difficult to access the mounting operator before connecting to the instrument cluster 50.
• the shape of the wall 41 and in particular to the inflection 42 which can include any appropriate angle or one or more rounds instead of one or more angles.
• the second portion of the wall 41b can be bent and oriented towards the bottom 51 of the instrumentation unit 50, so as to release a groove or recess to accommodate the electric harness segment 30.
• the first portion 41a of the wall 41 may adopt any shape necessary for fixing or interlocking the instrumentation unit 50.
• the electrical apparatus accommodated on the insert 40 is not limited to a combined instrumentation but may include any electrical device usually hosted in a dashboard of a motor vehicle such as a ventilation control system, an audio-video installation control system or a multimedia screen.

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