IP Library Granted Patent US 12,351,111
Granted Patent B2
US 12,351,111 · App. 18/472,254 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Holding arrangement and vehicle

Inventors: Laurentiu Pop (Timis, RO); Werner Zanzinger (Giroc, RO); Tobias Huth (Langenselbold, DE); Jörg Thomas (Dietzenbach, DE); Sergiu Rinja (Utvin, RO); Caius Ungureanu (Timisoara, RO); Marius Pascalau (Timisoara, RO)
Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
B60R11/0235B60K35/00B60K35/22B60K35/50B60K35/53B60K2360/816B60R2011/001B60R2011/0066
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Patent No.
US 12,351,111
App. No.
18/472,254
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pivotable display system having a traction spring tensioned to reversibly pivot the display around a pivot axis of a shaft connected to an upper portion of a display in a direction from a front side of the display toward the rear side of the display. In the event of an accident-related application of force below a threshold, the display is rotatable in a rearward direction toward an instrument panel, so that a steering column pushed in a direction towards the display avoids or at least reduces the risk of destruction of the display. In the event of accident-related application of force above the threshold, the traction spring may reversibly displace the display upwardly away from the steering column.

Claims (13)

1. A pivotable display system comprising:

a display, the display comprising:

a cutout disposed on a rear side of the display; and

an attachment hook having an opening, the opening of the attachment hook disposed in a substantially vertical orientation of the pivotable display system; and

a support device coupled to the display, the support device comprising:

a threaded hole aligned with the cutout, the threaded hole configured to receive a screw;

the screw disposed in the threaded hole, the screw coupling the support device to the display;

a shaft disposed in a horizontal orientation of the pivotable display system, the opening of the attachment hook disposed on the shaft; and

a traction spring tensioned to reversibly pivot the display around a pivot axis of the shaft in a direction from a front side of the display toward the rear side of the display.

2. The pivotable display system of claim 1 , wherein the screw couples the support device to a bottom portion of the display.

3. The pivotable display system of claim 2 , wherein the attachment hook couples a top portion of the display to the shaft.

4. The pivotable display system of claim 3 , wherein the support device further comprises a breaking part disposed adjacent to the threaded hole.

5. The pivotable display system of claim 4 , wherein the traction spring is tensioned to detach the attachment hook from the shaft in the substantially vertical orientation and reversibly displace the display in the substantially vertical direction in response to breakage of the breaking part.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 23, 2024
From: POP, LAURENTIU; ZANZINGER, WERNER; HUTH, TOBIAS; THOMAS, JÖRG; RINJA, SERGIU; UNGUREANU, CAIUS; PASCALAU, MARIUS
To: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
Reel/Frame 066209/0333 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 22465553 · Sep 22, 2022 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240101044A1 · Mar 28, 2024
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