Embodiments of an article comprising a cold-formed glass substrate in a curved shape, a plurality of separate mechanical retainers, and a frame are disclosed. The cold-formed glass substrate has a first major surface, and a second major surface opposing the first major surface. In one more embodiments, the plurality of separate mechanical retainers are attached to the second major surface of the cold-formed glass substrate. The mechanical retainers may be attached to the frame to define a position for each of the plurality of mechanical retainers, such that the mechanical retainers define the curved shape. Embodiments of processes to form such articles are also provided. Such processes can include attaching a plurality of separate mechanical retainers to a flexible glass substrate such that the glass substrate maintains its flexibility, and attaching the mechanical retainers to a frame, such that the mechanical retainers attached to the frame define a cold-formed curved shape for the flexible glass substrate.

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.

A display device includes a display panel in which a display screen and an indicator region are two-dimensionally arranged, an indicator substrate which is mounted with a light source component and which is arranged on a back face side of the display panel so as to face the indicator region but not to face the display screen, and a control substrate which is a separate part from the indicator substrate and on which a control circuit for the display screen is formed. The control substrate is arranged on the back face side of the display panel and arranged distant from the display panel than the indicator substrate, and the control substrate is arranged so as not to face at least a portion of each of the display screen and the indicator substrate.

Provided is a head-up display apparatus that is excellent in viewability when a display screen is viewed through a pair of polarized sunglasses, and is excellent in heat resistance. The head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member. The cover member has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of 3,000 nm or more. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.

A reflectance/transmittance of an optical device disposed at a position through which image light emitted from a liquid crystal display displaying an icon passes is changed according to an anti-glare level to achieve anti-glare of the reflected image. A color of the icon displayed on the liquid crystal display is adjusted such that the higher the transmittance of the optical device is, the lower the lightness is, so that the icon of a similar color is visually recognized regardless of the reflectance/transmittance of the optical device.

Disclosed are structural design solutions for flexible display panels for use in automobile interiors that comprises a flexible joint portion that are configured to meet the requirements of the automobile industry standard head form impact testing.

Disclosed herein are structures and methods for assembling said structures to provide a glass-based and flush implementation of a display structure for a vehicle-based context. Employing the aspects disclosed herein, an implementer is provided a structure capable of passing head-impact tests, while prevent stray shard creation and providing an aesthetically superior design to convention implementation.

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.

A windscreen display system for a motor vehicle has a head-up display device. The head-up display device has a projection device for emitting a projection light beam with a first item of image information towards a display region of a windscreen so that the information is reflected there and can be perceived in an eye region, and a transparent covering for protecting the projection device, the covering having a cover pane and an antireflection layer applied to one or both sides.

The present disclosure relates to a visible part for an operating part or decorative panel, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, including a layer structure with the following layer sequence of layers while forming interfaces: a lower substrate layer; a decorative layer; an upper cover layer, wherein the upper cover layer is any one of: translucent and transparent; wherein the layer structure forms an end face into which an access to at least one interface enters, and wherein the substrate layer forms a projection with respect to the upper cover layer of the layer structure; wherein the visible part furthermore has an upper transparent protective paint layer, which covers the cover layer and the end face and which, if the visible part is attached as intended, forms a top surface facing towards an observer and covers the access; as well as to an associated manufacturing method.