Automotive display device
AssigneeAutonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
InventorsTomokazu Ito, Kenji Okamoto, Katsuhiro Katagiri, Minoru Shibata
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Abstract
An automotive display unit includes a display unit 13 ins talled in an accommodating portion 5 provided in a dashboard portion, a closing member 15 for closing and/or opening an proning in the accommodating portion 5, a driving mechanism 17 vided with a motor 31 for driving the closing member 15, and a control unit, wherein the motor 31 is a pulse motor with an encoder, whereby while referring to a pulse output from the pulse motor 31, the control unit controls the driving of the motor 31 so as to adjust an opening width of the closing member 15 based on an opening or closing command inputted thereinto.
Claims7
An automotive display device installed in a dashboard portion of an automotive vehicle, comprising:
- a display unit installed in an accommodating portion provided in said dashboard portion;
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- a closing member provided on said dashboard portion for closing and/or opening an opening in said accommodating portion.
wherein said controller adjusts the opening width of said opening to a vertical width of said display area of said screen of said display unit in the state in which said opening is left open.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.