Backlight unit and head-up display device
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsJun Shihaku, Kenji Koizumi, Naohisa Murata, Noriaki Narushima, Kazuki Kubota
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Abstract
A backlight unit includes a light source; a condensing unit that condenses light emitted from the light source; and a diverging unit that diverges the light entering from the condensing unit and that emits the light toward an image display unit of a light transmission type in a head-up display device. For example, the diverging unit is a lens in which both surfaces of an incident surface into which the light from the condensing unit enters as well as an emission surface from which the light is emitted toward the image display unit, are concave surfaces.
Claims8
A backlight unit, comprising:
- a light source;
- a condensing unit configured to condense light emitted from the light source;
- and
- a diverging unit configured to diverge and emit the light entering from the condensing unit toward a light-transmission type image display unit in a head-up display device, wherein
- the diverging unit diverges the light in a lateral direction that is a direction corresponding to a vehicle width direction, and a longitudinal direction that is a direction corresponding to a vehicle height direction, in the image display unit;
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- a degree of divergence of the light diverged by the diverging unit in the lateral direction is larger than a degree of divergence of the light diverged by the diverging unit in the longitudinal direction.
A head-up display device, comprising:
- a light-transmission type image display unit configured to display an image;
- a light source;
- a condensing unit configured to condense light emitted from the light source;
- and
- a diverging unit configured to diverge and emit the light entering from the condensing unit toward the image display unit, wherein
- the image is projected on a light reflecting unit in front of a driver's seat with the light emitted from the diverging unit,
- the diverging unit diverges the light in a lateral direction that is a direction corresponding to a vehicle width direction, and a longitudinal direction that is a direction corresponding to a vehicle height direction, in the image display unit, and
- a degree of divergence of the light diverged by the diverging unit in the lateral direction is larger than a degree of divergence of the light diverged by the diverging unit in the longitudinal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.