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US 10,266,054 B2Granted
Vehicle display device
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsHarutoshi Nakajima, Akira Masuda
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Abstract
A vehicle display device includes a display showing surface configured to form a showing area and show driving information in image through a display; a non-display showing surface provided around the display showing surface and configured to form the showing area and switch between showing and non-showing of a notification symbol based on turning-on or turning-off of a back-side light source; and a front-side light source arranged on a side opposite to the back-side light source with the non-display showing surface interposed therebetween, and configured to irradiate the non-display showing surface with light to draw a decorative pattern, regardless of the showing or the non-showing of the notification symbol on the non-display showing surface.
Claims16
A vehicle display device comprising:
- a display showing surface configured to form a showing area and show driving information in image through a display;
- a non-display showing surface provided around the display showing surface and configured to form the showing area and switch between showing and non-showing of a notification symbol based on turning-on or turning-off of a back-side light source;
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- a front-side light source arranged on a side opposite to the back-side light source with the non-display showing surface interposed therebetween, and configured to irradiate the non-display showing surface with light thereby illuminating a decorative pattern extending across a plurality of the notification symbols each corresponding to different events, regardless of the showing or the non-showing of the notification symbols on the non-display showing surface,
- wherein the display displays a background pattern in image as a background of the driving information on the display showing surface,
- wherein the decorative pattern cooperated with the background pattern displayed in image on the display showing surface of the display is drawn on the non-display showing surface by being irradiated with light from the front-side light source, and
- wherein the background pattern extends across a plurality of separate and backlit displays and the decorative pattern extends across the plurality of notification symbols each outside of the separate and backlit displays.
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A vehicle display device comprising:
- a display showing surface configured to form a showing area and show driving information in image through a display;
- a non-display showing surface provided around the display showing surface and configured to form the showing area and switch between showing and non-showing of a plurality of notification symbols based on turning-on or turning-off of a back-side light source;
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- a front-side light source arranged on a side opposite to the back-side light source with the non-display showing surface interposed therebetween, and configured to irradiate the nondisplay showing surface with light thereby illuminating a decorative pattern extending across the notification symbols regardless of the showing or the non-showing of the notification symbols on the non-display showing surface such that the decorative pattern is illuminated by the front-side light source in a state in which the notification symbols are not illuminated by the back-side light source and during a period in which a warning state is not indicated,
- wherein the display displays a background pattern in image as a background of the driving information on the display showing surface,
- wherein the decorative pattern cooperated with the background pattern displayed in image on the display showing surface of the display is drawn on the non-display showing surface by being irradiated with light from the front-side light source, and
- wherein the background pattern extends across a plurality of separate and backlit displays and the decorative pattern extends across the plurality of notification symbols each outside of the separate and backlit displays.
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A vehicle display device comprising:
- a display showing surface configured to form a showing area and show driving information in image through a display;
- a non-display showing surface provided around the display showing surface and configured to form the showing area and switch between showing and non-showing of a notification symbol based on turning-on or turning-off of a back-side light source;
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- a front-side light source arranged on a side opposite to the back-side light source with the non-display showing surface interposed therebetween, and configured to irradiate the non-display showing surface with light thereby illuminating a decorative pattern extending across a plurality of the notification symbols each corresponding to different events, regardless of the showing or the non-showing of the notification symbols on the non-display showing surface,
- wherein the display displays a background pattern in image as a background of the driving information on the display showing surface,
- wherein the decorative pattern cooperated with the background pattern displayed in image on the display showing surface of the display is drawn on the non-display showing surface by being irradiated with light from the front-side light source, and
- wherein the decorative pattern is extended away from both sides of the background pattern in width direction from a passenger seat side to a driver seat side of a vehicle having the vehicle display device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.