WO2001007282A1 - Combine d'instrumentation, notamment pour planche de bord de vehicule - Google Patents
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- WO2001007282A1 WO2001007282A1 PCT/FR2000/002110 FR0002110W WO0107282A1 WO 2001007282 A1 WO2001007282 A1 WO 2001007282A1 FR 0002110 W FR0002110 W FR 0002110W WO 0107282 A1 WO0107282 A1 WO 0107282A1
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- 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
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- 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
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- TITLE Instrument cluster, especially for vehicle dashboards.
- the present invention relates to an instrument cluster, in particular, intended to be integrated into a dashboard of a motor vehicle.
- This type of known handset has the role of centralizing information relating to the various functions of a vehicle.
- a support on which are arranged, on the one hand, electrical and / or electronic components corresponding to said functions as well as their supply circuit, and on the other hand, visual indicator lights, such that indicator and / or pivoting needle, which are associated and positioned with respect to a background or dial on which inscriptions, such as graduations, symbols, units of measurement, are made, in correspondence either with the hands or with passage zones of there for the sighted.
- This support is generally constituted by a printed circuit, provided on a rear face of the handset, and constituting the supply circuits of the electrical and / or electronic components, the front face of said support receiving the indicator lights and / or pivoting needles.
- the background or dial on which the inscriptions relating to the functions are carried out, is fixed to said support by any mechanical means, completely covering it, and therefore necessitating being crossed in particular by the pivots needles generally controlled by a stepping motor, located on the rear face of the support.
- a stepping motor located on the rear face of the support.
- a model could, for example, include a combined instrumentation comprising a rev counter and another not having one, thanks to a clock, for example.
- a speedometer may be provided for a vehicle of a very efficient series, in this case, the speedometer may be graduated up to 220 km / h while for a model of the same series, but less efficient, it will only be graduated up to 180 km / h.
- a first phase of the inventive step consists in dissociating the dial from the support to personalize it according to the vehicle to be equipped.
- the invention relates to a combined instrumentation, in particular intended to be integrated into a dashboard of motor vehicles, centralizing information relating to the various functions to be displayed, and constituted by a support on which are arranged on the one hand, at least electrical and / or electronic components corresponding to said functions, and on the other hand, visual indicator lights, such as indicator lights and / or pivoting hands which are associated and positioned relative to a background or dial on which inscriptions relating to said functions to be displayed are made, characterized in that the background or dial constitutes an independent component, put in place and fixed in front of the support, by means of a part connection intended to cooperate with the dashboard, to constitute a sub-assembly on which the instrumentation support is attached, by means of fixing means not including the dial.
- the completely independent dial can be personalized as required and according to a vehicle in relation to a standard or upgradable instrumentation support which must cover a predetermined range of vehicles. It should be noted that this dial is designed so as to be able to overcome the support, not only for its positioning in front of it but also in relation to the needle pivots from which the dial must escape in order not to be tributary.
- the present invention also relates to the characteristics which will emerge during the description which follows and which should be considered in isolation or according to all their possible technical combinations.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view of an instrumentation combination according to the invention
- FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic sectional view of a single support forming part of a combined instrumentation according to FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3 is a schematic sectional view of a dial and of a connecting piece constituting a sub-assembly included in the composition of a combined instrumentation according to FIG. 1,
- FIGS. 4 and 5 are front views of two variants of a combined instrumentation along line IV.IV of Figure 1.
- the instrument cluster 1 shown in the figures as a whole, is intended as shown in Figure 1, in particular, to be integrated in a dashboard 2 of a motor vehicle.
- a support 3 on which are arranged on the one hand, at least electrical and / or electronic components, such as for example resistors and / or transistors and / or diodes (not shown), a connector, intended to connect to a vehicle network.
- the support 3 also comprises on its front face, not only the needle 6, but also, indicator lights 7, in particular lamps and / or LEDs, corresponding to visual indicator lights, and / or digital or alphanumeric LCD display 107, for d other types of functions to display.
- the support 3 further comprises a supply circuit 8 for the various electrical and / or electronic components, generally consisting of a printed circuit.
- the display elements (motor 5 / needle 6, lamps or LED 7, LCD display 107) are actuated by a digital system controlled by a microprocessor located on the support 3 or at another location on the vehicle.
- This microprocessor has in memory the functions to be displayed and their assignment to the various displays, in the form of suitable programs.
- the instrument cluster 1 also includes a bottom or associated dial 9 and positioned in relation to the visual indicator lights, such as in particular the indicator lights 7 or the pivoting hands 6, dial on which inscriptions are made, relating to said functions to be displayed, such that in particular graduations, symbols, units of measurement. These are provided in correspondence with the hands 6 or light passage zones 10 in correspondence with the indicator lights 7.
- the bottom or dial 9 constitutes an independent, one-piece or monobloc component, put in place and fixed in front of the support 3, during assembly, by means of a connecting piece 11, intended to cooperate with the dashboard 2.
- the dial 9 having no direct connection with the support 3, and not needing to be crossed by any component, is for example previously fixed on the connecting piece 11
- a subassembly is then formed on which the instrumentation support 3 is then attached, by means of fixing means not including said dial 9 in this way as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
- the dial 9 can be customized according to a vehicle relative to a support standard or upgradeable instrumentation to cover a predetermined range of vehicles, independently of needle passage problems.
- the support 3 is crossed in a lower zone 3a by at least one pivot 12 of an indicator needle 6, which pivot 12 opens onto the visible front face of the said support 3.
- the latter has, in coincidence with the zone 3a, a strip forming a cover 13 behind which the pivot 12 and the indicator needle 6 which is perpendicular to it are hidden, when the latter is not activated by its control motor 5.
- the indicator needle 6 is in a position parallel to the bottom 3b of the support 3 and of the strip 13.
- the cover strip 13 is obtained in one piece with the support 3 in a U-shaped configuration, a long vertical branch of which constitutes the support 3 and a smaller vertical branch constitutes of the cover 13.
- the height h1 of said cover 13 is substantially complementary to that h2 of the dial 9 located opposite one another to correspond to the total height H of the handset 1.
- the connecting piece 11 on which the dial 9 is fixed, then the instrumentation support 3, is an extension of dimensions and shapes such as to make it capable of cooperating with a corresponding housing 14, formed in plate 2.
- the dial 9 is of dimensions such as to close a rear opening 15 of the flange 11, with the exception of a lower zone 15a left free and corresponding substantially to the height h1 of the strip forming cover 13 from support 3.
- connection of the dial 9 on the flange 11 is carried out by bonding, for example, on an internal peripheral shoulder 11a thereof, excluding the lower free zone 15a, intended for the passage of the strip forming the cover 1, of the support 3 when mounting it on the flange 11.
- the flange 11 is previously fitted with a glass 16, fixed for example by gluing against a shoulder 11 b of the said flange 11.
- the subassembly thus constituted by the flange 11 of the glass 16 and the dial 9 is then associated with the instrumentation supports 3.
- the connection of the instrumentation support 3 on the flange 11 of this subassembly is effected by the intermediate pins 17 and 18, coming from the rear opening 15 thereof and cooperating in fixing with corresponding housings 19 and 20 as shown in Figure 1.
- FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate the possibilities offered to personalize the instrument cluster according to the invention.
- the two variants of FIGS. 4 and 5 present an indication of the speed, by displacement of one of the needles 6 (in the center in the example shown) in front of a graduation 21.
- this graduation extends from 0 to 240 km / h, while in Figure 5, from 0 to 190 km / h.
- the needle 6 located on the left in Figures 4 and 5, in Figure 4 it corresponds to an indication of the engine speed, while in Figure 5, it provides an indication of the fuel level in the tank.
- the corresponding scale 22 is indicated in revolutions per minute and as a filling fraction, respectively.
- the dial 9 has discrete zones 10 which correspond to the lamps or LEDs 7, so as to display functions the assignment of which may be different between FIGS. 4 and 5.
- the display 107 can display functions, in digital or alphanumeric form, which are different in FIGS. 4 and 5, in particular in FIG. 4, the indication of the fuel level.
- the variants shown in Figures 4 and 5 therefore differ in two ways:
- the respective dials 9 are different as a function of the elements to be displayed,
- microprocessor controlling the display elements, motor 5 / needle 6, lamps or LED 7, digital display or digital alpha
- the LCD 107 has different programs in memory.
- the dial 9 is produced, in a manner known per se, by screen printing, reproducing the symbols, graduations, transparent areas, of color, on a transparent support such as a polycarbonate sheet.
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JP2001512395A JP2003520722A (ja) | 1999-07-23 | 2000-07-21 | 特に車両のダッシュボード用の計器装置 |
GB0201500A GB2368055B (en) | 1999-07-23 | 2000-07-21 | Instrument cluster, especially for a vehicle dashboard |
AU70060/00A AU7006000A (en) | 1999-07-23 | 2000-07-21 | Instrumentation set, in particular for vehicle instrument panel |
DE10084838T DE10084838T1 (de) | 1999-07-23 | 2000-07-21 | Kombiinstrument, insbesondere für Fahrzeug-Instrumentenbrett |
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FR9909750A FR2796599B1 (fr) | 1999-07-23 | 1999-07-23 | Combine d'instrumentation, notamment pour planche de bord de vehicule |
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DE (1) | DE10084838T1 (fr) |
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US8078358B2 (en) * | 2008-03-27 | 2011-12-13 | Denso Corporation | Vehicle display unit |
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DE3735004A1 (de) * | 1987-10-16 | 1989-04-27 | Vdo Schindling | Anzeigevorrichtung |
EP0663311A1 (fr) * | 1994-01-18 | 1995-07-19 | Valeo Borg Instruments Verwaltung GmbH | Instrument d'affichage hybride, notamment pour un tableau de bord d'un véhicule automobile |
DE19500668A1 (de) * | 1995-01-12 | 1996-07-18 | Vdo Schindling | Anzeigeeinrichtung |
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- 2000-07-21 AU AU70060/00A patent/AU7006000A/en not_active Abandoned
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DE3735004A1 (de) * | 1987-10-16 | 1989-04-27 | Vdo Schindling | Anzeigevorrichtung |
EP0663311A1 (fr) * | 1994-01-18 | 1995-07-19 | Valeo Borg Instruments Verwaltung GmbH | Instrument d'affichage hybride, notamment pour un tableau de bord d'un véhicule automobile |
DE19500668A1 (de) * | 1995-01-12 | 1996-07-18 | Vdo Schindling | Anzeigeeinrichtung |
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US8078358B2 (en) * | 2008-03-27 | 2011-12-13 | Denso Corporation | Vehicle display unit |
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GB0201500D0 (en) | 2002-03-13 |
DE10084838T1 (de) | 2002-10-10 |
GB2368055B (en) | 2003-01-22 |
FR2796599B1 (fr) | 2001-10-05 |
GB2368055A (en) | 2002-04-24 |
AU7006000A (en) | 2001-02-13 |
FR2796599A1 (fr) | 2001-01-26 |
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