US 6,714,125 B2Granted

Vehicle-applied display unit

AssigneeYazaki Corporation

InventorsYoshiyuki Furuya, Takeyuki Amari, Tetsuya Sugiyama

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Abstract

A vehicle-applied display unit is provided, wherein the image light of an inverted display image emitted from a display device in a dashboard and passed an opening of the dashboard is reflected toward an eye point I by means of a combiner standing from a recess of the dashboard positioned ahead of the eye point I. The combiner is arranged outside the forward sight from the eye point I and on an optical path of a portion, of outer light entering a vehicle-inside from a vehicle-outside, going toward the display device through the opening at least over a whole extent, in a vehicle-width direction, of the portion of the outer light for at least partially enclosing the opening over a front through both sides portions thereof, and a polarizing plate is coated on an inner surface of the combiner.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A vehicle-applied display unit for a vehicle having a windshield, comprising:

a dashboard positioned below said windshield and ahead of an eye point in the vehicle;
a luminous display source provided inside the dashboard;
an opening provided on the dashboard;
and
a combiner standing on the dashboard visibly from the eye point and reflecting image light, toward the eye point, of a display image emitted from the luminous display source and passed the opening,
wherein the combiner is arranged on an optical path of a portion of outer light entering a vehicle-inside from a vehicle-outside, going toward the luminous display source through the opening, at least over a whole extent, in a vehicle-width direction, of the portion of the outer light for at least partially enclosing the opening over a front through both sides portions thereof and is made of light-attenuation processed material capable of at least attenuating the portion of the outer light,
wherein a recess is formed on a top face of the dashboard, and
wherein the combiner stands-inside is arranged within the recess and below said windshield while partially enclosing the opening formed in the recess so that the combiner is positioned outside a vehicle forward sight from the eye point.

5 more elements

A vehicle-applied display unit for a vehicle having a windshield, comprising:

a dashboard positioned below said windshield and ahead of an eye point in the vehicle;
a luminous display source provided inside the dashboard;
an opening provided on the dashboard;
and
a combiner standing on the dashboard visibly from the eye point and reflecting image light, toward the eye point, of a display image emitted from the luminous display source and passed the opening,
wherein a recess is formed on a top face of the dashboard, and
wherein the combiner is arranged within the recess, below said windshield, and ahead of the opening formed in the recess so that the combiner is positioned outside a vehicle forward sight from the eye point.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/000,134Filed 4 Dec 2001
Priority: JP 2001-01245619 Jan 2001
Published: US 2002/0097196 A125 Jul 2002
Granted: 30 Mar 2004
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G02B 27/0101
Head-up displays: characterised by optical features
B60K 35/231
Head-up displays [HUD]: characterised by their arrangement or structure for integration into vehicles
B60K 35/60
Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles: instruments characterised by their location or relative…
B60K 37/00
Dashboards