B60K2370/20

Display apparatus for use in vehicle
09802485 · 2017-10-31 · ·

The present invention provides a display apparatus for use in a vehicle that prevents reduction in driver visibility and adds no constrains to vehicle interior design. The display apparatus includes an indicator unit and a reflection receiving surface. The indicator unit includes a housing, an indicator accommodated in the housing, and a face glass sheet attached to the housing in such a manner that the indicator is visible. The reflection receiving surface receives light traveling from an eye range and reflecting off the face glass sheet. the face glass sheet is formed into a cross-sectional concavity depressed toward the indicator. The concavity provides a curved surface that reflects the light from the eye range to the reflection receiving surface. The reflection receiving surface is a back surface of a vehicle structure placed at a position at which there is space between the reflection receiving surface and the face glass sheet.

METALLIC DECORATIVE PART FOR VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE
20170328749 · 2017-11-16 ·

A metallic decorative part for a vehicle display device includes a substrate body molded with a synthetic resin, a metal thin film made of metal and provided on a surface of the substrate body, and a plurality of grooves formed on a surface of the metal thin film in accordance with a shape of the surface of the substrate body. The plurality of grooves are formed so that the radius of the curved surface of a corner forming an apex between adjacent grooves is larger than 0 and equal to or smaller than 38.0 μm. Accordingly, the metallic decorative part for a vehicle display device can appropriately ensure metal texture to be given to a viewer in a structure in which the metal thin film is provided on the surface of the substrate body made of a resin.

DIAL PLATE AND AUTOMOTIVE METER
20170282716 · 2017-10-05 · ·

A dial plate is provided with a mark layer having translucency, the mark layer including numbers of linear grooves formed on a surface of the mark layer, and a reflective layer that is arranged on a back face side of the mark layer, and reflects light incident from the mark layer side. The reflective layer includes a light transmission area that allows the light emitted from a light source arranged on the back face side to transmit therethrough to a front face side, and displays a display design by the light transmitting through the light transmission area when the light source is turned on. In the reflective layer, at least the light transmission area is composed of pearl ink.

System and method for automatically adjusting an angle of a three-dimensional display within a vehicle

A vehicle display assembly includes a three-dimensional (3D) display, and an actuator coupled to the 3D display. The actuator is configured to adjust an orientation of the 3D display relative to a vehicle occupant. The vehicle display assembly also includes a sensor assembly configured to monitor a position of a head of the vehicle occupant, and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor assembly and to the actuator. The controller is configured to instruct the actuator to adjust the orientation of the 3D display based on the position of the head of the vehicle occupant.

DECORATIVE PART FOR VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE
20170232843 · 2017-08-17 · ·

A decorative part for a vehicle display device includes a substrate body that is molded by synthetic resin and a mirror surface that is formed on a surface of the substrate body, in which the mirror surface is formed so that mirror surface roughness becomes larger than 0 and equal to or smaller than 0.35 μm and a ratio of a wavelength becomes equal to or larger than 1:600 and equal to or smaller than 1:6000 in the case of an amplitude of 1, the amplitude being captured by a ratio of the amplitude corresponding to an average height of an undulation waveform and the wavelength corresponding to an average length of the undulation waveform in an undulation curve in which a cutoff value from a surface shape is 250 μm.

METER DEVICE
20170227385 · 2017-08-10 ·

A meter device includes an instrument panel, a coaxial motor, a central light source, a peripheral light source, and units. The coaxial motor includes rotation shafts which rotate around a single axis perpendicular to the instrument panel. The central light source is disposed near the rotation shafts. The peripheral light source is disposed more distantly from the rotation shafts than the central light source. The units rotate together with the rotation shafts, respectively. The units includes indicator parts, respectively. Each of the indicator parts guides light to emit the light, thereby indicating a surface of the instrument panel. The units include a first unit and a second unit. The first unit includes a light path which guides light from the central light source to the indicator part. The second unit includes a light path which guides light from the peripheral light source to the indicator part, and a non-light guide part that prevents the light of the central light source from being guided to the indicator part.

MOVING PHYSICAL JEWELRY OVER A DISPLAY SCREEN

A display screen arrangement is for use in a motor vehicle and includes an electronic display screen. A pair of optical elements are slidably mounted over the display screen and are movable in opposite lateral directions. An actuator is coupled to the optical elements and moves the optical elements in the opposite lateral directions. A processor is communicatively coupled to the actuator and causes the actuator to move the optical elements to positions dependent upon an image being presented on the display screen.

INDICATING DEVICE WITH REAR PROJECTION STRUCTURE

A dial plate being nonopaque is in a disc shape. A slit member has slits each extending through the slit member in a thickness direction. A light source is located on an opposite side of the slit member from the dial plate. The light source is configured to emit light through the slits of the slit member toward the dial plate to project images on the dial plate.

Head-up display device
09766455 · 2017-09-19 · ·

A head-up display device that is to be equipped to a moving body and displays an image projected on a projection surface of the moving body to be visually recognized as a virtual image from an inside of the moving body includes a light source, an image displaying panel and a common mirror. The image displaying panel luminously displays an image using a light of the light source passing through a first optical path and projecting the image on the projection surface via a second optical path. The common mirror reflects and leads the light of the light source toward the image displaying panel in the first optical path, and a light of the image toward the projection surface in the second optical path.

VEHICLE LIGHTING SYSTEM

A vehicle lighting system includes: a lighting device that emits a first light and a second light to a periphery of an own vehicle, the second light having a higher directivity than the first light; a camera to acquire image information; a detector to emit an electromagnetic wave and acquire a reflection wave; and an electronic control unit configured to detect a physical body using the image information, detect the physical body using information of the reflection wave, control the lighting device such that the first light is emitted to the physical body detected by the reflection wave, determine whether the physical body detected using the image information in a state where the first light is being emitted is an target object, and control the lighting device such that the lighting device emits the second light toward a predetermined range around the target object.