On-vehicle flat display apparatus
AssigneeNippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideki Masuda, Tatsuki Kawamura
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Abstract
An on-vehicle display apparatus with an increased flat display size. The on-vehicle display apparatus includes a flat display capable of displaying various types of information, a light-transmitting substrate provided on a front-face side of the flat display, a pointer provided in the light-transmitting substrate, and a pointer drive means provided on a back-face side of the flat display. The pointer drive means rotates the pointer. The apparatus further includes a movement mechanism for moving the light-transmitting substrate to the outside of a display range. A first magnet is provided for the pointer, and a second magnet is provided for the pointer drive means and is configured to be opposite to first magnet.
Claims6
An on-vehicle display apparatus, comprising:
- a flat display configured to display various types of information;
- a light-transmitting substrate disposed on a front-face side of the flat display;
- a pointer disposed on the light-transmitting substrate, wherein the light-transmitting substrate is configured to rotatably hold the pointer;
- a pointer drive disposed on a back-face side of the flat display configured to rotate the pointer;
- a movement mechanism configured to move the light-transmitting substrate to inside or outside of a display range;
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- a first magnet provided for the pointer, and a second magnet provided for the pointer drive means to be opposite to the first magnet, wherein, when the light-transmitting substrate is positioned on the front-face side of the flat display inside of the display range, the pointer is rotated in association with rotation drive of the pointer drive by an attraction force of the first and second magnets, and wherein, when the light-transmitting substrate is positioned outside of a display range, the attraction force of the first and second magnets is cancelled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.