US 12,136,358 B2
Method for integrating a display in an outer skin of a vehicle body
Jasper Christiansen, Hamburg (DE); Patrick Dumm, Offenstetten (DE); and Torben Effner, Altfraunhofen (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/780,208
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 19, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/082691
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/104989, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 3, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 131 997.8 (DE), filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0415222 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G09F 21/04 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2024.01); B60K 35/50 (2024.01); B60K 35/60 (2024.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01); G09F 9/37 (2006.01)
CPC G09F 21/048 (2013.01) [B60K 35/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0266 (2013.01); G09F 9/372 (2013.01); B60K 35/50 (2024.01); B60K 35/60 (2024.01); B60K 2360/692 (2024.01); B60K 2360/797 (2024.01); B60K 2360/816 (2024.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle body having a body outer skin;
a display unit having at least one display device integrated in the body outer skin by forming the display device together with a molded plastics part in a common molding step to form a body contour, wherein a display area of the display device faces away from the molded plastics part;
a display device controller of the display unit electrically connected to the display device.