CN222263071U - Atmosphere lamp for vehicle and vehicle with atmosphere lamp - Google Patents

Abstract

The present application relates to a vehicle atmosphere light and a vehicle having the same, aiming to solve the technical problems that the vehicle atmosphere light source has high cost, general effect and low cost performance. To this end, the vehicle atmosphere light provided by the present application includes a light-transmitting panel, a touch film and a backlight module. The touch film is attached to the inner side of the light-transmitting panel. In addition, the backlight module includes a circuit board, an LED light group and a control chip electrically mounted on the circuit board; the circuit board is communicatively connected with the touch film; the LED light group includes a plurality of LED lamp beads distributed in an array on the circuit board; the control chip is suitable for obtaining the touch track of the outer side of the light-transmitting panel through the touch film, and controlling the LED lamp beads at the corresponding position to light up. The atmosphere light provided by the present application obtains the touch track through the touch film and sends the virtual signal to the control chip. The control chip controls the LED lamp beads at the corresponding position to light up, achieving a painting effect, increasing the look and feel and playability of the atmosphere light, and improving the cost performance.

Description

Atmosphere lamp for vehicle and vehicle with atmosphere lamp

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of car lamps, in particular to an atmosphere lamp for a car and a car with the atmosphere lamp.

Background

This section provides merely background information related to the present disclosure and is not necessarily prior art.

Currently, the light emission form of a vehicle atmosphere lamp is prevailing as a linear light source, including direct light and indirect light. The surface light source has a few forms, mainly because the cost of the surface light source is high, and the surface light source has a general effect and low cost performance. Therefore, the personalized requirements of users cannot be well met, and therefore, the ornamental value and the playability of the surface light source atmosphere lamp are improved, and the cost performance is improved, so that the surface light source atmosphere lamp is worth people to think.

Disclosure of Invention

The application aims to at least solve the technical problems of high cost, general presented effect and low cost performance of a surface light source of a vehicle atmosphere lamp, and the application is realized by the following technical scheme:

In a first aspect, the application provides an atmosphere lamp for a vehicle, which is mounted on an interior trim panel of the vehicle and comprises a light-transmitting panel, a touch membrane and a backlight module. The light-transmitting panel is provided with an inner side surface and an outer side surface, and the touch membrane is adhered to the inner side surface of the light-transmitting panel. In addition, the backlight module comprises a circuit board, an LED lamp group and a control chip, wherein the LED lamp group and the control chip are electrically arranged on the circuit board, the circuit board is in communication connection with the touch control diaphragm, the LED lamp group comprises a plurality of LED lamp beads distributed on the circuit board in an array mode, the control chip is suitable for acquiring a touch track of the outer side face of the light-transmitting panel through the touch control diaphragm, and the LED lamp beads at corresponding positions are controlled to be turned on according to the touch track.

According to the atmosphere lamp provided by the application, the outer side surface of the light-transmitting panel is touched by the finger to form the touch track, the touch control diaphragm acquires the touch track and sends the virtual signal to the control chip, the control chip controls the LED lamp beads at the corresponding positions to be turned on, so that the drawing effect is realized, the look and feel and the playability of the atmosphere lamp are increased, and the cost performance is improved. The scheme has high integration level and low cost, can fully utilize compact space in the vehicle, has strong realizability, solves the problem of single visual effect of the atmosphere lamp of the vehicle, and better meets the personalized demands of users.

In some embodiments, the atmosphere lamp for a vehicle further includes a light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate is disposed between the touch membrane and the circuit board and covers the plurality of LED lamp beads on the circuit board.

In some embodiments, the light guide plate is provided with optical patterns on both sides or one of the sides, and the optical patterns form light scattering surfaces of the LED lamp beads.

In some embodiments, the vehicular atmosphere lamp further comprises a base, the base is provided with a mounting cavity and an opening communicated with the mounting cavity, the backlight module is arranged in the mounting cavity, and the light-transmitting panel cover is arranged on the opening.

In some embodiments, the inner wall of the base is provided as a reflective surface, and/or the inner wall of the base is coated with a reflective coating.

In some embodiments, the backlight module further comprises a pressure sensing module electrically mounted on the circuit board, the sensing end of the pressure sensing module is in pressure contact with the light-transmitting panel, and the vehicular atmosphere lamp further comprises a false triggering alarm electrically connected with the pressure sensing module.

In some embodiments, the backlight module further includes an EMC protection module, and the EMC protection module is electrically laid on the circuit board and covers the circuit board and the control chip.

In some embodiments, the vehicular atmosphere lamp further comprises a light-transmitting soft contact layer, and the light-transmitting soft contact layer is coated on the outer side surface of the light-transmitting panel.

In some embodiments, the vehicle atmosphere lamp further comprises a connector, wherein plugs are respectively arranged at two ends of the connector, the touch control diaphragm and the circuit board are respectively provided with a socket, and the plugs at two ends of the connector are respectively electrically connected with the sockets of the touch control diaphragm and the circuit board in an inserting mode.

In a second aspect, the present application further provides a vehicle, including a vehicle body, a vehicle controller, and the vehicular atmosphere lamp of the first aspect, where the vehicular atmosphere lamp is mounted on a vehicle interior trim panel of the vehicle body and is in communication connection with the vehicle controller.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the application. Also, like reference numerals are used to designate like parts throughout the figures. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is an exploded view of an atmosphere lamp according to an embodiment of the present application.

Wherein, the reference numerals are as follows:

100. An atmosphere lamp for a vehicle;

110. The touch screen comprises a light-transmitting panel, 120 parts of touch films, 130 parts of backlight modules, 140 parts of light guide plates, 150 parts of bases, 160 parts of connectors;

131. 132, a circuit board and LED lamp beads.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

It is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having" are inclusive and therefore specify the presence of stated features, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

Although the terms first, second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections, these elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections should not be limited by these terms. These terms may be only used to distinguish one element, component, region, layer or section from another region, layer or section. Terms such as "first," "second," and other numerical terms when used herein do not imply a sequence or order unless clearly indicated by the context. In addition, in the description of the present application, unless explicitly stated and limited otherwise, the terms "disposed" and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected, or may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those skilled in the art according to the specific circumstances.

For ease of description, spatially relative terms, such as "medium," "inner," "top," "circumferential," "side," "bottom," and the like, may be used herein to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. Such spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the mechanism in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the mechanism in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" or "over" the other elements or features. Thus, the example term "below" may include both upper and lower orientations. The mechanism may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or in other directions) and the spatial relative relationship descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

The term "direct light" as used in the background of the application refers to light from a light source that is directed onto an object and reflected back into the eye from the intended light source. As the name implies, "indirect light" refers to light entering the eye after multiple shots (at least two times or more) from all possible directions from the normal hemisphere of the colored site. In addition, the optical pattern is also called an optical texture, and is a process for applying a special texture processing method to the surface of an optical element, the optical performance of the element can be changed by changing the morphology and reflectivity of the surface of the element, the application range of the optical texture process is very wide, the application range of the optical texture process comprises a solar cell panel, an LED lamp, a liquid crystal display and the like, and in a light source structure, the refractive index and diffuse reflection capability of light can be improved by processing the texture on the surface of a luminescent material, so that the lighting effect of a lamp is more uniform and softer.

As shown in fig. 1, in order to solve the technical problems of high cost, general presented effect and low cost performance of a surface light source of a vehicle atmosphere lamp, the embodiment of the application provides a vehicle atmosphere lamp and a vehicle with the same, which achieve the effects of realizing a painting effect by the surface light source, increasing the look and feel and the playability of the atmosphere lamp and improving the cost performance.

A specific embodiment of an atmosphere lamp is described in detail below in connection with fig. 1.

In a first aspect, the present application provides an atmosphere lamp 100 for a vehicle, including a light-transmitting panel 110, a touch-control film 120 and a backlight module 130. The light-transmitting panel 110 has an inner side and an outer side, and the touch film 120 is adhered to the inner side of the light-transmitting panel 110. In addition, the backlight module 130 includes a circuit board 131 and an LED lamp set and a control chip electrically mounted on the circuit board 131, wherein the circuit board 131 is in communication connection with the touch membrane 120, the LED lamp set includes a plurality of LED lamp beads 132 distributed on the circuit board 131 in array, and the control chip is adapted to obtain a touch track of the outer side surface of the light-transmitting panel 110 through the touch membrane 120 and control the LED lamp beads 132 at corresponding positions to turn on according to the touch track.

Specifically, according to the vehicle atmosphere lamp 100 provided by the application, the outer side surface of the light-transmitting panel 110 is touched by a finger to form a touch track, the touch membrane 120 acquires the touch track and sends a virtual signal to the control chip, and the control chip controls the LED lamp beads 132 at corresponding positions to be turned on, so that a painting effect is realized, the look and feel and playability of the vehicle atmosphere lamp 100 are increased, and the cost performance is improved. The scheme has high integration level and low cost, can fully utilize compact space in the vehicle, has strong realizability, solves the problem of single visual effect of the atmosphere lamp 100 for the vehicle, and well meets the personalized demands of users.

Further, the transparent panel 110 is preferably made of PC material, and is suitable for being used as an interface for user interaction, and a light emitting pattern can be simultaneously arranged on the transparent panel 110, and the implementation process of the light emitting pattern can be, but is not limited to, paint spraying, laser engraving, IMD or IML. The PC material is Polycarbonate (PC engineering plastic for short), and the IMD (In-Mole Decoratiom) refers to an injection molding surface treatment technology or an injection molding surface decoration technology, and is mainly applied to surface decoration and functional panels of household electrical appliances. The IML refers to in-mold insert injection molding, and has the obvious characteristics that the surface is a hardened transparent film, the middle is a printed pattern layer, the back is a plastic layer, and the ink is clamped in the middle, so that the product can prevent the surface from being scratched and abrasion, and can keep the vividness of the color for a long time and be difficult to fade.

It should be noted that the LED lamp set and the control chip are located on a side of the circuit board 131 facing the light-transmitting panel 110, and the circuit board 131 includes a light-emitting area and other functional areas, where the LED lamp set and the control chip and other functional modules are located in the light-emitting area, and the other functional areas may be concentrated or dispersed into multiple positions.

In particular, the control chip is integrated with an LED driving module for driving the LED lamp beads 132 to turn on. In addition, the touch membrane 120 preferably adopts a conductive polymer PEDOT, which has the advantages of good conductivity, high transparency, good stability, low cost, easy processing and the like, wherein the PEDOT is a polymer of EDOT (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene monomer), has the characteristics of simple molecular structure, small energy gap, high conductivity and the like, and is widely used in the fields of organic thin film solar cell materials, OLED materials, transparent electrode materials and the like.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1, the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 further includes a light guide plate 140, where the light guide plate 140 is disposed between the touch membrane 120 and the circuit board 131 and covers a plurality of LED beads on the circuit board.

In this embodiment, it is preferable to provide the light guide plate 140 between the touch membrane 120 and the circuit board 131, so as to improve the uniformity of light. Further, the light guide plate 140 is preferably made of polymethyl methacrylate (polymethyl methacrylate), abbreviated as PMMA, which is a high molecular polymer, also called acryl or organic glass, and has the advantages of high transparency, low price, easy machining, and the like.

It should be noted that, the present application may not be provided with the light guide plate 140, and the drawing function of the surface light source structure can be achieved as well, which falls within the protection scope of the present application.

In some embodiments, both sides or one of the sides of the light guide plate 140 is provided with an optical pattern, which forms a light scattering surface of the LED lamp beads 132.

In the present embodiment, it is preferable to provide optical patterns on both sides or one of the sides of the light guide plate 140, and more preferably, to provide optical patterns on a side of the light guide plate 140 facing the light-transmitting panel 110, so that light rays are more uniform.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1, the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 further includes a base 150, the base 150 has a mounting cavity and an opening communicating with the mounting cavity, the backlight module 130 is disposed in the mounting cavity, and the light-transmitting panel 110 covers the opening.

In this embodiment, the backlight module 130 is preferably disposed in the mounting cavity of the base 150, and the backlight module 130 is accommodated and protected by fastening the light-transmitting panel 110 with the opening of the base 150.

Further preferably, the base 150 may be fixed by setting a corresponding cavity to limit the backlight module 130, or may be fixed by using an adhesive, and in addition, the light-transmitting panel 110 may be in a cover form to cover the opening of the base 150.

In some embodiments, the inner wall of the base 150 is a reflective surface and/or the inner wall of the base is coated with a reflective coating.

In this embodiment, the inner wall of the base 150 is preferably a reflective surface, so as to enhance the reflectivity of light and increase the overall brightness. Further preferably, the inner wall of the base 150 is provided as a white surface. In addition, the reflective coating can be a reflective paint prepared by mixing acrylic resin as a base material and a certain proportion of directional reflective materials in a solvent.

In particular, the base 150 may be PP-GF15 (polypropylene-glass fiber 15), which is a composite material formed by mixing 15% glass fiber and 85% polypropylene, has good mechanical properties, can better resist environmental temperature changes, humidity changes and mechanical impact, and has good corrosion resistance.

It should be noted that "and/or" means "and/or" a preceding scheme and "and/or" a following scheme are simultaneously or alternatively arranged.

In some embodiments, the backlight module 130 further includes a pressure sensing module electrically mounted on the circuit board 131, the sensing end of the pressure sensing module is in pressure contact with the light-transmitting panel 110, and the vehicle divided lamp further includes a false triggering alarm electrically connected to the pressure sensing module.

In this embodiment, the pressure sensing module is preferably disposed to abut against the transparent panel 110, so as to avoid false touch.

Specifically, the sensing end of the pressure sensing module may directly abut against the transparent panel 110 or abut against the touch membrane 120, when a false touch occurs, a certain position of the transparent panel 110 has pressure for a long time, or the pressure exceeds a preset value, the pressure sensing module feeds back the signal to the control chip, and the control chip controls the LED lamp beads 132 at the position to stop starting or generate a flashing effect to give out a prompt.

Further, there are many sensors for realizing pressure sensing, including capacitive pressure sensors, inductive pressure sensors, infrared pressure sensors, wheatstone bridge flexible pressure sensors, etc., and the pressure sensing module of the present application is preferably a capacitive pressure sensor.

In some embodiments, the backlight module 130 further includes an EMC protection module electrically laid on the circuit board 131 and covering the circuit board and the control chip.

In this embodiment, preferably, an EMC protection module is further provided, so as to prevent electromagnetic interference. The EMC refers to electromagnetic interference (Electromagnetic Interference) and can also be called EMI for short, and the electromagnetic interference comprises conducted interference and radiated interference, wherein the conducted interference mainly comprises that interference signals generated by electronic equipment mutually generate interference through a conductive medium or a public power line, and the radiated interference refers to that the interference signals generated by the electronic equipment transmit the interference signals to another electric network or the electronic equipment through spatial coupling.

In some embodiments, the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 further includes a light-transmitting soft touch layer, and the light-transmitting soft touch layer is coated on the outer side surface of the light-transmitting panel 110.

In this embodiment, the outer side of the transparent panel 110 is preferably covered with a soft touch layer to achieve a soft touch effect.

Further, the soft touch layer can be, but not limited to, a light-transmitting surface skin or a light-transmitting fabric, so that the soft touch effect is achieved, and meanwhile, the hiding performance is better.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1, the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 further includes a connector 160, wherein plugs are respectively provided at two ends of the connector, the touch membrane 120 and the circuit board 131 are respectively provided with sockets, and the plugs at two ends of the connector 160 are respectively electrically plugged into the sockets of the touch membrane 120 and the circuit board 131.

In this embodiment, preferably, the touch membrane 120 is in communication connection with the circuit board 131 through the connector 160, so that the stability is good and the communication effect is high.

Further preferably, the connector 160 is preferably an FPC connector, wherein the FPC is a flexible printed circuit board 131 (Flexible Printed Circuit abbreviated as FPC) which is a flexible printed circuit board made of polyimide or mylar as a base material and has high reliability, and is excellent. Specifically, the sockets of the touch membrane 120 and the circuit board 131 are preferably disposed opposite to each other, and are located at the edges of the same end, and the FPC connector is prevented from passing through the light guide plate 140.

The working process of the atmosphere lamp 100 for a vehicle provided by the embodiment of the application is as follows:

First, the finger touches the outer side of the transparent panel 110 and forms a touch track, the touch membrane 120 obtains the touch track and sends a virtual signal to the control chip, the control chip controls the LED lamp beads 132 at the corresponding positions to be turned on, so as to achieve a painting effect, increase the look and feel and the playability of the atmosphere lamp 100 for vehicles, and improve the cost performance. In addition, this scheme avoids the mistake to touch through the forced induction module, prevents electromagnetic interference through the EMC module, and integrated touch technology and forced induction technique realize the large tracts of land luminescent panel of drawing function, not only strengthened user's visual perception, increased simultaneously with the interactive function of car machine, really realized the mutual of people-car-product three, improved the technological sense of whole car interior trim.

In a second aspect, the present application also provides a vehicle, including a vehicle body, a vehicle controller, and the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 of the first aspect, where the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 is mounted on a vehicle interior trim panel of the vehicle body and is in communication connection with the vehicle controller.

In this embodiment, the vehicle of the second aspect has technical effects consistent with the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 of the first aspect of the application, and will not be described here.

The embodiments of the present application merely illustrate the structure of the vehicle related to the improvement point of the present application, and do not represent that the vehicle of the present application does not have other structures, for example, a power supply system, etc., and the other structures are not illustrated herein.

Further, the atmosphere lamp 100 for the vehicle is installed in the vehicle body, and the drawing function is realized by combining the touch technology, so that the technological sense of the interior decoration of the whole vehicle is improved, and meanwhile, the playability of the product is improved, especially for the group of children users, the time of the child users on the road can be well given out, and the concentration of driving by dad and day is improved.

In addition, the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 according to the first aspect of the present application may be used in other vehicles such as ships and airplanes, and the present application is not limited to the vehicular atmosphere lamp 100 according to the first aspect, and all the above applications are within the scope of the present application.

In this embodiment, preferably, the vehicle atmosphere lamp 100 is in communication connection with the vehicle controller through the transceiver module, and the vehicle atmosphere lamp 100 can be actively controlled through a button on the vehicle, so as to present different effects such as breathing, time sequence and the like, and increase the look and feel. Specifically, the transceiver module is a CAN/LIN transceiver module, and the CAN bus protocol (Controller Area Network) is a serial communication protocol bus of the vehicle.

The present application is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily understood by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present application are intended to be included in the scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (10)

1. An atmosphere lamp for a vehicle, characterized in that the atmosphere lamp for a vehicle is mounted on an interior trim panel of a vehicle, the atmosphere lamp for a vehicle comprising:

a light-transmitting panel having an inner side and an outer side;

the touch control membrane is adhered to the inner side surface of the light-transmitting panel;

The backlight module comprises a circuit board, an LED lamp group and a control chip, wherein the LED lamp group and the control chip are electrically installed on the circuit board, the circuit board is in communication connection with the touch membrane, the LED lamp group comprises a plurality of LED lamp beads which are distributed on the circuit board in an array mode, the control chip is suitable for acquiring a touch track of the outer side face of the light-transmitting panel through the touch membrane, and controlling the LED lamp beads at corresponding positions to be turned on according to the touch track.

2. The vehicular atmosphere lamp according to claim 1, further comprising a light guide plate provided between the touch film and the circuit board and covering the plurality of LED beads on the circuit board.

3. The atmosphere lamp according to claim 2, wherein both or one of the side surfaces of the light guide plate is provided with an optical pattern forming a light scattering surface of the LED lamp beads.

4. The vehicle atmosphere lamp according to claim 1, further comprising a base having an installation cavity and an opening communicating with the installation cavity, wherein the backlight module is disposed in the installation cavity, and wherein the light-transmitting panel cover is disposed on the opening.

5. An atmosphere lamp for a vehicle according to claim 4, characterized in that the inner wall of the base is provided with a reflective surface and/or the inner wall of the base is coated with a reflective coating.

6. The vehicle atmosphere lamp according to claim 1, wherein the backlight module further comprises a pressure sensing module electrically mounted on the circuit board, a sensing end of the pressure sensing module is in pressure contact with the light-transmitting panel, and the vehicle atmosphere lamp further comprises a false triggering alarm electrically connected with the pressure sensing module.

7. The vehicular atmosphere lamp according to claim 1, wherein the backlight module further comprises an EMC protection module, and the EMC protection module is electrically laid on the circuit board and covers the circuit board and the control chip.

8. The vehicular atmosphere lamp according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising a light-transmitting soft touch layer coated on an outer side surface of the light-transmitting panel.

9. The vehicle atmosphere lamp according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising a connector having plugs at both ends thereof, wherein the touch membrane and the circuit board each have a socket, and wherein the plugs at both ends of the connector are electrically plugged into the sockets of the touch membrane and the circuit board, respectively.

10. A vehicle comprising a vehicle body, a vehicle controller, and the vehicular atmosphere lamp according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the vehicular atmosphere lamp being mounted to a vehicle interior trim panel of the vehicle body and being in communication connection with the vehicle controller.