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ME’s Adaptive Instrument Panel???
This refers to a patent that GM filed last year. It was found by a MECF forum member “jagamajajaran”, Jeremy Welborn, who sometimes reads the patents at the U.S. Patent and Trade Office to see which ones GM has filed that could well be part of the ME Corvette.
Thank you “little birdie” (a forum member who wishes to remain anonymous) for sharing this info with us, for if this is what we get our the ME, which I personally feel is likely, it would be really nice driving enhancement.
Issue/Problem: A steering wheel has spokes and unless one is going exactly straight ahead, as you turn the wheel, one or more spokes could occlude what instrument you are looking for.
Solution: Have the instrument panel gauges, which are designed to give you full visibility when you are going straight ahead, instead just like some car’s moving headlights when you are making a turn, how about if your displayed instruments on your actual cluster in front of you, rotate exacting with the amount of your turn, so your steering wheel’s spokes do not occlude what instrument you could be looking for.
GM describes this patent as for “an instrument panel cluster for a vehicle accurately repositions during driving so that at least one or more depicted instruments remain visible at most steering angles. The instrument cluster may include an electronic display on which one or more instruments are depicted during vehicle operation. An instrument cluster controller receives data representative of the steering wheel angle, and responsive thereto repositions the representative instruments on the electronic display so that at least one instrument remains viewable within an opening formed within the steering wheel.”
This refers to a patent that GM filed last year. It was found by a MECF forum member “jagamajajaran”, Jeremy Welborn, who sometimes reads the patents at the U.S. Patent and Trade Office to see which ones GM has filed that could well be part of the ME Corvette.
Thank you “little birdie” (a forum member who wishes to remain anonymous) for sharing this info with us, for if this is what we get our the ME, which I personally feel is likely, it would be really nice driving enhancement.
Issue/Problem: A steering wheel has spokes and unless one is going exactly straight ahead, as you turn the wheel, one or more spokes could occlude what instrument you are looking for.
Solution: Have the instrument panel gauges, which are designed to give you full visibility when you are going straight ahead, instead just like some car’s moving headlights when you are making a turn, how about if your displayed instruments on your actual cluster in front of you, rotate exacting with the amount of your turn, so your steering wheel’s spokes do not occlude what instrument you could be looking for.
GM describes this patent as for “an instrument panel cluster for a vehicle accurately repositions during driving so that at least one or more depicted instruments remain visible at most steering angles. The instrument cluster may include an electronic display on which one or more instruments are depicted during vehicle operation. An instrument cluster controller receives data representative of the steering wheel angle, and responsive thereto repositions the representative instruments on the electronic display so that at least one instrument remains viewable within an opening formed within the steering wheel.”
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