A display apparatus includes a display panel, a decoration film and a cover glass disposed on a front surface of the display panel, a core plate supporting a rear surface of the display panel and attached to the rear surface of the display panel, and a rear cover coupled to a rear surface of the core plate. The core plate has a protruding portion protruding toward the cover glass, the rear cover has a coupling portion coupled to the protruding portion so as to cover at least a portion of the protruding portion, and resin is applied to at least a portion of the coupling portion with the rear cover adhered to the decoration film or the cover glass via the resin.

This application relates to a mechanical button apparatus that includes a body where an upper portion thereof is closed and a lower portion thereof is opened and a bottom plate attached on a display screen of a display apparatus to cover the opened lower portion. The body includes an aperture member including a wing set expanded or contracted in a rotation direction of the body. The body also includes a photovoltaic (PV) cell array substrate including a PV cell configured to generate power for charging a battery and an optical sensor configured to convert light signals, reflected by the expanded or contracted wing set, into electrical signals. The body further includes a circuit substrate configured to operate with the power charged into the battery, calculate number of rotation manipulations of the body by using the electrical signals, and transmit the calculated number of rotation manipulations to the display apparatus.

Disclosed are vehicle cockpit module assembly including an actuator module to provide power, and fixed to an interior of a dashboard assembly, a main housing fixed to the interior of the dashboard assembly to fix the actuator module at one side and to accommodate a pulley, a timing belt, and a timing belt clip, a motor using power from the actuator module to provide a rotational force to a motor rotating shaft, a slip gear module connected to the motor rotating shaft through a center between a rear slip gear and a front slip gear and configured to transmit the rotational force transmitted from the motor rotating shaft through a frictional force between the rear slip gear and the front slip gear, the pulley rotates due to the rotational force transmitted through the slip gear module, and the timing belt connected to the pulley converts rotary motion into linear motion.

The invention is a robust lensless instrument cluster configured for installation in a vehicle. The instrument cluster comprises an outer case, a PCB and lighting structure, an inner frame, an optical bonding assembly, halo lighting portions, a seamless display comprising tell-tale indicators and gauges, and an outer visor. The instrument cluster further comprises a plurality of LEDs for compartmentalized and indirect lighting of the tell-tale indicators on the seamless display and the halo lighting portions around the edges of the seamless display. Because the instrument cluster is lensless and otherwise exposed to the environment, it comprises a seal system to prevent the ingress of water and dust into the interior components. The seal system can also eliminate the risk of mura in the optical bonding assembly.

Embodiments of a method of cold-forming a glass article are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the method includes bending a glass sheet over the chuck such that a first major surface of the glass sheets conforms to a bending surface of the chuck. In one or more embodiments, the method includes adhering a frame to the second major surface of the glass sheet such that at least one spacer is positioned between the glass sheet and the frame.

A display system of a vehicle displays a virtual image. The display system has a projection device, which is configured to emit display light in order to generate an image, and a reflecting device, which is configured for a first reflection of display light of the projection device arranged above the reflecting device by way of the reflecting device attached in or on an instrument panel of the vehicle. The display light of the projection device incident on the reflecting device is substantially retroreflected. The display system further includes a windshield of the vehicle, which windshield is configured for a second reflection of at least part of the display light, which was reflected by the reflecting device, to the eyes of an observer in the vehicle in order to allow the observer to see, behind the windshield, the virtual image of the image generated by the projection device.

A glass plate structure includes: a glass plate having first and second major surfaces; an antireflection film; and a print portion. The first major surface includes: a curved surface region that is a region of an end portion of the glass plate, is curved convexly, and has a radius of curvature r that is 50% or more of a thickness t of the glass plate; and a flat surface region that is connected to the curved surface region. The antireflection film is a laminate in which a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer are laminated alternately. The number of layers of the antireflection film is 12 or smaller. A total thickness of the antireflection film in the flat surface region is 400 nm or smaller. A thickness of an outermost layer of the antireflection film in the flat surface region is 90 nm or larger.

A glass substrate includes a pair of main surfaces including a first main surface and a second main surface opposed to the first main surface; an edge surface arranged along a direction orthogonal to the pair of main surfaces; and a connecting surface arranged between the first main surface and the edge surface. The connecting surface has a plurality of pores. A difference between a 50% particle diameter of the pores in a portion 20 μm distant from the first main surface and a 50% particle diameter in a portion 20 μm distant from the edge surface is 10 μm or less.

Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.

Provided is a smart garnish installed on an automobile interior material (a door trim, an instrument panel, a console, or the like), and to a smart garnish for an automobile which is driven when a capacitance change is sensed by a pressed deformation of an upper case through a capacitive touch sensor pad formed of a ground (GND) and capacitive touch sensors corresponding to symbols and capacitive force sensors distributed corresponding to the ground and thus the touch and force of the desired symbol are sensed without noise.