# US 9,517,733 B2 · Motor vehicle having a retractable screen > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,517,733 B2 - Document ID: US9517733B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/906,890 - Filed: 2014-07-23 - Published: 2016-06-09 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2013-07-26 - Assignees: Audi AG - Applicants: Audi AG - Inventors: Christian Wall; Stefan Richter - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9517733B2 ## CPC - B60R 11/0235: {of flat type, e.g. LCD} - B60K 35/22: Display screens - B60K 35/50: Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle (B60K35/231 takes precedence) - B60K 35/53: Movable instruments, e.g. slidable - B60K 35/60: Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles (arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10) - B60R 13/0256: {Dashboard liners} - B60R 2011/0005: {Dashboard} - B60R 2011/0082: {collapsible, e.g. for storing after use} - B60R 2011/0085: {with adjustment by rotation in their operational position} - B60R 2011/0092: {with motorization} - B60R 2013/0287: {integrating other functions or accessories} - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - 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 ## Abstract A trim part of a motor vehicle has a gap into which a display device with a screen can be retracted into the interior of the trim part in a covered position. The screen projects into a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle in a use position by moving through the gap from the covered position with a pivot movement. The screen is suspended in the trim part by one or more coupling mechanisms supporting the pivot movement. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A motor vehicle having a passenger compartment with a trim part, the trim part having an interior and an exterior with a gap in the exterior, said motor vehicle comprising: a display screen retracting into the interior of the trim part in a covered position and projecting into the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle in a use position by pivoting through the gap in the trim part; and at least one coupling mechanism supporting said display screen and enabling the pivoting thereof, said at least one coupling mechanism including at least two pivot elements, each of the pivot elements having first and second ends with the first end mounted in a rotatable manner on the trim part, and a carrier plate having a leading surface, adjacent the bottom of the display screen, with a longest measurement substantially parallel to a longest dimension of the gap, the carrier plate mounted in a pivotable manner in the interior of the trim part at the second ends of the at least two pivot elements, providing a coupling element of said at least one coupling mechanism and having said display screen cantilevered from the carrier plate, the carrier plate and said display screen being mechanically mounted in the trim part solely by the at least two pivot elements. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein each coupling mechanism has four elements. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, further comprising at least one rotary or geared motor having a gear mechanism, and wherein at least one of the pivot elements is coupled in the rotatable manner to the trim part by the gear mechanism of the at least one rotary or geared motor, and as a result acts as a crank in the coupling mechanism. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said display screen is supported only by said at least one coupling mechanism, and wherein said display screen has sides, transverse to the gap in the trim part, and a rear face, without a rail on the rear face, and without a guide slot on the sides. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gap has a gap width measured between walls which delimit the gap, along a normal vector perpendicular to a display surface of said display screen in the use position, the gap width ranging between 1.0 and 1.5 times a thickness of said display screen measured along the normal vector. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said display screen has a side wall substantially closing the gap in the covered position. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the longest measurement of the carrier plate in a longitudinal direction of the gap is not larger than a length of the bottom of said display screen in the longitudinal direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein, as viewed from an observation point from which a display area of said display screen can be seen from the passenger compartment in the use position, all of said at least one coupling mechanism, provided for mounting said display screen in the trim part, is arranged behind said display screen without protruding beyond said display screen laterally along a transverse axis of the vehicle. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the at least two pivot elements have a center line extending linearly between the first and second ends. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the at least two pivot elements has respective first and second pivot axes at the first and second ends separated by a pivot arm length, and an upper surface, closer to the trim part in the use position than in the covered position, containing at least one line segment at least as long as the pivot arm length.