Cockpit system of interchangeable modules

US6322122A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Gary J. Burns · Knoxville, US
• Robert A. Chanko · Livonia, US
• Frederick A. Drapala · Canton, US
• Timothy Jackson · McKinney, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 29, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 29, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60K2360/828
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cockpit system of interchangeable modules for a first vehicle having a left-hand-drive arrangement and for a second vehicle having a right-hand-drive arrangement, including a driver-side module, a passenger-side module, a center module fastenable between the driver-side module and the passenger-side module, a left-hand-drive top module, and right-hand-drive top module. Alternatively, a cockpit system of interchangeable modules for a first vehicle having a narrow cockpit width and for a second vehicle having a wide cockpit width including a driver-side module, a passenger-side module, a narrow center module, a wide center module, a narrow top module, and a wide top module.