Motor-vehicle modular dashboard

US6464281B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Tilo Volkmann · Sindelfingen, DE
• Ralf Zipperle · Althengstett, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2001
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S224/926
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor-vehicle dashboard of modular construction has an upper part module which extends below a windscreen essentially over the entire width of the vehicle interior, a driver's side module which is arranged below the upper part module on the driver's side, a front-passenger's side module which is arranged below the upper part module on the front-passenger's side, and a central console module which is arranged below the upper part module between the driver's side module and front-passenger's side module. In order to improve the capability of this dashboard to be customized, it is proposed to arrange a variable module below the upper part module between the central console module and front-passenger's side module. The variable module is designed, in a standard equipment variant, as a paneling element whose outside is shaped in order to form a smooth transition between the outsides of the central console module and the front-passenger's side module, and which is designed, in a special equipment variant, as a functional element associated with an additional function for the dashboard.