Disclosure of Invention
The following presents a simplified summary of one or more aspects in order to provide a basic understanding of such aspects. This summary is not an extensive overview of all contemplated aspects, and is intended to neither identify key or critical elements of all aspects nor delineate the scope of any or all aspects. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one or more aspects in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
In order to solve the problems that in the prior art, the performance and configuration of hardware of a vehicle-mounted system before a mass production factory are fixed, only limited times of software updating can be performed once the vehicle-mounted system is out of the mass production factory, the performance of the hardware cannot be updated, a large number of wire harnesses are used due to the increase of modules, and more complexity is brought to the installation of users, the invention provides a modularized vehicle-mounted system and a modularized vehicle.
An aspect of the present invention provides a modular vehicle system comprising: a docking station disposed within a glove box of the vehicle, and at least one function docking module removably mounted on the docking station; the docking station is provided with a plurality of clamping slot interfaces for installing the functional expansion modules, and the docking station at least provides power for the functional expansion modules through the clamping slot structures; each function expansion module is internally provided with corresponding function software, and at least comprises a wireless communication module, and each function expansion module realizes data transmission based on the wireless communication module.
According to the invention, the hardware of the vehicle-mounted system is modularized, and the vehicle-mounted system is arranged in the glove box, so that personalized customization of a user to the vehicle-mounted system is greatly facilitated, and the data of the vehicle-mounted system is based on wireless communication, so that the connection and cost of a wire harness are effectively reduced, and the operation of the user is very convenient.
In an embodiment of the foregoing vehicle-mounted system, optionally, the function expansion module includes function expansion cards that are removably mounted on the docking station and sensors and/or actuators distributed on the vehicle, and data transmission is implemented between each function expansion card and a corresponding sensor and/or actuator through the wireless communication module. According to the embodiment, through the design of the pluggable function expansion card, the user can conveniently operate by himself. Through wireless communication design, can reduce the use of cable, also make things convenient for the user to install simultaneously.
In an embodiment of the vehicle system, optionally, each of the card slot interfaces has the same interface shape, and each of the function expansion cards is respectively mounted on any one of the card slot interfaces. Through designing the draw-in groove interface to the same interface shape, can make the draw-in groove interface non-differentiation, the user can install the function expansion card on arbitrary draw-in groove interface, need not to discern the differentiation to the draw-in groove interface.
In an embodiment of the foregoing vehicle-mounted system, optionally, each of the card slot interfaces and the connection interface of each of the function expansion cards are provided with an anti-misplug structure that matches with each other. Through the misplug prevention structure, a user can rapidly and accurately realize the plugging of the function expansion card, and the operation of the user is convenient.
In an embodiment of the foregoing vehicle system, optionally, intervals between the card slot interfaces are the same.
In an embodiment of the foregoing vehicle machine system, optionally, the plurality of card slot interfaces are divided into a plurality of card slot interface groups, each card slot interface group includes at least one card slot interface, a space between the card slot interfaces in each card slot interface group is the same, and a space between the card slot interfaces in different card slot interface groups is different.
In an embodiment of the foregoing vehicle system, optionally, the vehicle system further includes: and the damping shell is arranged between the docking station and the glove box and at least wraps the docking station from the periphery. Through setting up the damping shell, can form the protection to car machine system effectively, avoid the jolting of driving process to cause the problem such as drop of function expansion card.
In an embodiment of the foregoing vehicle system, optionally, the function expansion module includes: one or more of a CPU module, a sound card module, a network card module, a panoramic image module, an AI module, a LoT module, a digital key module, an intelligent terminal interconnection module and a display module. The function expansion module can meet the requirements of the user in various aspects, the function modules are mutually independent, the user can freely select one or more modules to install according to the requirements, the personalized requirements of the user are met, the upgrading is convenient, and meanwhile, the cost is saved.
In an embodiment of the foregoing vehicle system, optionally, the wireless communication module uses one or more of star flash technology, bluetooth technology, and WiFi technology. Through wireless communication module, reduced the restriction of pencil, make the connection between each module simpler and lightweight, it is more convenient to install.
Another aspect of the invention also provides a vehicle comprising a modular vehicle system according to any one of the embodiments of the invention.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in detail below with reference to the drawings and the specific embodiments. It is noted that the aspects described below in connection with the drawings and the specific embodiments are merely exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention in any way.
The following description is presented to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the invention and to incorporate it into the context of a particular application. Various modifications, as well as various uses in different applications will be readily apparent to persons skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to a wide range of embodiments. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the invention may be practiced without limitation to these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form, rather than in detail, in order to avoid obscuring the present invention.
The reader is directed to all documents and documents filed concurrently with this specification and open to public inspection with this specification, and the contents of all such documents and documents are incorporated herein by reference. All the features disclosed in this specification (including any accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise. Thus, unless expressly stated otherwise, each feature disclosed is one example only of a generic set of equivalent or similar features.
Note that where used, the designations left, right, front, back, top, bottom, forward, reverse, clockwise, and counterclockwise are used for convenience only and do not imply any particular orientation of securement. In fact, they are used to reflect the relative position and/or orientation between the various parts of the object. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like, are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
Note that, where used, further, preferably, further and more preferably, the brief description of another embodiment is made on the basis of the foregoing embodiment, and further, preferably, further or more preferably, the combination of the contents of the rear band with the foregoing embodiment is made as a complete construction of another embodiment. A further embodiment is composed of several further, preferably, still further or preferably arrangements of the strips after the same embodiment, which may be combined arbitrarily.
As described above, in order to solve the problems that in the prior art, the performance and configuration of the hardware of the vehicle-mounted system are fixed before the mass production factory, only limited times of software update can be performed once the mass production factory is finished, the performance of the hardware cannot be updated, a large number of wire harnesses are used due to the increase of modules, and more complexity is brought to the installation of users, the invention provides a modularized vehicle-mounted system and a modularized vehicle.
An aspect of the present invention provides a modular vehicle system comprising: a docking station disposed within a glove box of the vehicle, and at least one function docking module removably mounted on the docking station; the docking station is provided with a plurality of clamping slot interfaces for installing the functional expansion modules, and the docking station at least provides power for the functional expansion modules through the clamping slot structures; each function expansion module is internally provided with corresponding function software, and at least comprises a wireless communication module, and each function expansion module realizes data transmission based on the wireless communication module.
First, please refer to fig. 1 for an understanding of an installation location of a vehicle system according to an aspect of the present invention. Fig. 1 shows a glove box 100 structure, which comprises a box body 101 and a box door 102, wherein the interior of the box body 101 is a hollow structure. It is known from the standards of GB/T4780-2020 for automotive body terminology that glove box refers to a box for storing small items on an instrument panel. Since the glove box is provided on the instrument panel, the driver and the passenger sitting in the co-driver position can take small articles from the glove box very conveniently. In the present invention, however, by providing the docking station in the hollow structure of the glove box casing 101, it is possible to facilitate the user to insert and withdraw the function docking module in the docking station conveniently.
Please further understand the vehicle system 200 disposed in the glove box 100 according to the present invention with reference to fig. 2-4. As shown in fig. 2, the in-car system 200 includes a docking station 210 and at least one functional expansion module. The function expansion module includes at least a function expansion card 220 removably mounted on the docking station. The docking station 210 is provided with a plurality of card slot interfaces for installing the function expansion card 220, and the docking station 210 supplies power for the function expansion card 220 of each function expansion module through a card slot structure, so that a vehicle-machine system which is arranged in the glove box 100 and is convenient for a user to install various function expansion modules through plugging and unplugging and completing personalized customization is formed.
In an embodiment, the function expansion module may include only the function expansion card 220 directly pluggable mounted on the docking station 210, and the corresponding functions are implemented through the function software built in the function expansion card 220.
In another embodiment, the function expansion module process includes sensors and/or actuators distributed on the vehicle in addition to the function expansion card 220 directly plugged into the docking station 210, so that the corresponding functions are implemented jointly via the function expansion card 220 (and the function software built therein) and the sensors and/or actuators distributed on the vehicle.
The function expansion module may include one or more of a CPU module, a sound card module, a network card module, a panoramic image module, an AI module, a LoT module, a digital key module, an intelligent terminal interconnection module, and a display module. The function expansion module can meet the requirements of the user in various aspects, the function modules are mutually independent, the user can freely select one or more modules to install according to the requirements, the personalized requirements of the user are met, the upgrading is convenient, and meanwhile, the cost is saved.
Taking the panoramic image module as an example, the panoramic image module comprises a plurality of camera devices distributed on a vehicle, namely the above-mentioned sensors and/or actuators, besides a function expansion card which is installed on a docking station in a pluggable manner, so as to realize the collection of panoramic images, thereby realizing the corresponding functions together.
Those skilled in the art may also provide various existing or future function expansion modules that can be applied to the vehicle as needed, and are not limited to the above examples.
Further, in order to facilitate data transmission between each function expansion card and the corresponding sensor and/or actuator, in the present invention, at least one function expansion module at least includes a wireless communication module, and when the vehicle system further includes other function expansion modules, the other function expansion modules can implement data transmission based on the wireless communication module. Meanwhile, data transmission can be realized between the sensors and/or the executors distributed on the vehicle and the corresponding function expansion cards through the wireless communication module, so that the trouble of additionally arranging data lines is avoided, and the installation of a user is facilitated.
The wireless communication module adopts one or more of star flash technology, bluetooth technology and WiFi technology. The person skilled in the art can also adopt the existing or existing wireless technology to realize the wireless communication module according to the requirement, thereby ensuring the data transmission effect.
The star flash technology is a new generation wireless short-distance communication technology, and the star flash system mainly comprises a star flash access layer, a basic service layer, a basic application layer and supporting services matched with the basic application layer. The star flash access layer provides wireless communication transmission for upper layer data. To meet the needs of different scenarios, the star flash access layer may currently provide two wireless short-range communication interfaces (SLB and SLE).
The technical content of the SLB (spark Link Basic access technology) is specified by a line standard 'wireless short-range communication on-board air interface technical requirement and test method' formulated by China Association for communication standards (CCSA). The SLB uses orthogonal multi-carrier (OFDM) waveforms to support extremely low-delay wireless frames, the idle unidirectional data transmission delay is smaller than 20.833us (minimum delay in the industry), a single carrier supports 20MHz bandwidth, a maximum 16 carrier supports 320MHz bandwidth, a maximum rate supports channel coding with a coding rate of 0.92, 1024QAM modulation and 8-stream multiplexing parallel transmission, and the deepest coverage supports channel coding and QPSK modulation with a coding rate of 1/8. SLB supports data link layer data transparent transmission mode, greatly reduces system overhead, and improves system multi-node access capacity. The SLB supports optimized access resource configuration and a multi-user low-delay access system.
SLE (Sparklink Low Energy, star flash low power access technology) can provide low cost, low power air interface access. SLE uses single carrier transmission, and the bandwidth supports 1MHz, 2MHz and 4MHz, and the modulation mode supports GFSK, BPSK, QPSK and 8PSK. Compared with the existing low-power consumption wireless short-distance technology, SLE can stably support 128kbps audio transmission under the same deep coverage condition, support higher speed (peak value 12 Mbps), support lossless audio transmission, support reliable multicast transmission and support hundreds of magnitude node access.
Bluetooth (Bluetooth), a wireless short-range technology, is used for in-vehicle communication, and is formulated and released by Bluetooth SIG. The vehicle-mounted Bluetooth system is based on a Bluetooth technology and has the main functions of being connected with a mobile phone of a user through wireless short-distance communication in the vehicle running process, and realizing the functions of hands-free conversation and interaction of part of vehicle and machine.
WiFi is a wireless short-range communication technology based on the IEEE802.11 standard, held by the WiFi alliance. The current main function of vehicle-mounted WiFi is to provide wireless access service for drivers and passengers in a seat cabin, and the wireless access service is used for information entertainment, mobile office and the like.
In an embodiment, in order to facilitate the user to insert and remove the function expansion card, each of the card slot interfaces has the same interface shape, so that each of the function expansion cards can be respectively mounted on any one of the card slot interfaces. Through designing the draw-in groove interface to the same interface shape, can make the draw-in groove interface non-differentiation, the user can install the function expansion card on arbitrary draw-in groove interface, need not to discern the differentiation to the draw-in groove interface.
In another embodiment, the connection interfaces of the card slot interfaces and the function expansion cards are provided with mutually matched anti-misplug structures, as shown in fig. 3, the connection interface of the function expansion card 220 is provided with a notch 221, the notch 221 is not arranged in the center, but although not shown, it is understood that a protruding part is arranged at a corresponding position in a matching manner at the card slot interface of the docking station 210 and is matched with the notch 221, so that the effect of preventing misplug can be achieved. Through the misplug prevention structure, a user can rapidly and accurately realize the plugging of the function expansion card, and the operation of the user is convenient. It will be appreciated that those skilled in the art may correspondingly configure the anti-misplug structure according to the shapes of the connection interface and the card slot interface, and is not limited to the example in fig. 3.
In one embodiment, the interval between the card slot interfaces is the same. So that the user can insert the function expansion card arbitrarily into the card slot interface. Under the condition that the sizes of the function expansion cards are diversified, the interval between the card slot interfaces can meet the requirement that the function expansion card with the maximum size can be conveniently inserted into the card slot interfaces.
In another embodiment, considering that the size of the function expansion card varies according to the functions that can be achieved by the function expansion module, the plurality of card slot interfaces are divided into a plurality of card slot interface groups, each card slot interface group includes at least one card slot interface, the intervals between the card slot interfaces in each card slot interface group are the same, and the intervals between the card slot interfaces in different card slot interface groups are different. Through setting up the draw-in groove interface of different intervals, can make the function expansion card of various sizes all can be installed on the draw-in groove interface with inserting in the adaptation.
In another preferred embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the vehicle system further comprises: a damper case 230 disposed between the docking station 210 and the glove box, the damper case 230 surrounding the docking station 210 at least from the periphery. Through setting up the damping shell, can form the protection to car machine system effectively, avoid the jolting of driving process to cause the problem such as drop of function expansion card.
The vibration damping case 230 may be made of existing or to be some material having a vibration damping effect, and the specific shape of the vibration damping case 230 may be adaptively adjusted according to the shape of the hollow structure in the docking station and glove box, and the shape of the vibration damping case 230 may be irregular so as to be snugly disposed between the docking station 210 and glove box.
Thus far, a modular vehicle-to-machine system provided by an aspect of the present invention has been described. According to the scheme, the original vehicle-mounted hardware system is split in a modularized manner (namely, the hardware functions originally integrated on one board are split into independent modules), a mass-production front-mounted vehicle factory can only install basic base hardware (docking station), the base hardware is provided with various extensible slots, power is supplied through connection of the slots (clamping slots), particularly, a wireless module is increased, the restraint of a wire harness is reduced, connection among the modules is simpler and lighter, a user can upgrade the hardware by himself or increase the hardware functions, and the system is more convenient to install and more friendly to the user due to the adoption of a wireless technology. For example, a CPU card can be upgraded to obtain a CPU with stronger performance, the IOT card can be added to control the IOT equipment in the home, and the panorama 360 is added only by direct plugging.
According to the invention, through standardized interfaces and pluggable interfaces, plug and play can be realized, the performance of each functional module can be updated and replaced at any time, the functional modules can be freely customized and combined, and the configuration and the functions of the vehicle can be easily updated. Through setting up wireless communication module, make data pass through wireless communication, reduced the connection and the cost of pencil, especially in the scheme that uses wireless star to flash the technique, replaced the pencil higher to delay and precision, data transmission is more smooth and easy.
In another aspect, as shown in fig. 5, the vehicle 300 provided by the present invention includes the modularized vehicle system 200 described in any one of the embodiments above, and the vehicle system 200 is disposed in a glove box area of the vehicle, so that a user can operate the vehicle conveniently.
According to the invention, the modification fun of a user can be greatly met, the user can modify the appearance and the interior of the vehicle body, and the software and hardware functions of the vehicle can be increased by configuring the function expansion module and easily plugging and unplugging the function expansion module. The docking station provides rich docking interfaces, so that users can freely match and combine according to favorites, and personalized hardware configuration and product experience selection are provided for the users. Meanwhile, according to the vehicle provided by the invention, a user does not need to pay for inexhaustible configuration and functions when purchasing the vehicle, and the 'smart-mounted' vehicle meeting the self requirement can be 'decorated' on the basis of the 'blank' vehicle according to the self requirement. In addition, the function expansion module can be updated at any time, and the vehicle configuration can not fall out of the way through plug replacement, so that the latest product configuration and function experience can be enjoyed without changing the vehicle.