IP Library Granted Patent US 9,937,874
Granted Patent B2
US 9,937,874 · App. 15/297,631 · Granted Apr 10, 2018

Vehicular display apparatus

Inventor: Harutoshi Nakajima (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
B60R11/0235B60K37/04F21V7/0008F21V7/05B60K2350/2052B60K2350/2056
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Patent No.
US 9,937,874
App. No.
15/297,631
Granted
Apr 10, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicular display apparatus is provided on a vehicular instrument panel and provides a display for a vehicular crew. The apparatus includes: a half mirror that transmits light from a front of a vehicle to a back of the vehicle and reflects light from a direction intersecting with a front-back direction of the vehicle to the back of the vehicle, a decorative member provided to one side of a side of the front of the vehicle and a side of the intersecting direction, a light emitting member that irradiates the decorative member with light, and a liquid crystal display that is provided to the other side and projects an image toward the half mirror. The decorative member is arranged so as to provide a display superposed on the image projected by the liquid crystal display when visually recognized from a front side.

Claims (10)

1. A vehicular display apparatus which is provided on a vehicular instrument panel and also provides a display for a vehicular crew, the apparatus comprising:

a half mirror that transmits light from a front of a vehicle to a back of the vehicle and reflects light to the back of the vehicle, which reflected light is incident on a back side of the half mirror from a direction intersecting with a front-back direction of the vehicle,

a decorative member that is adjacent to the back side of the half mirror,

a light emitting member that irradiates the decorative member with light, and

a liquid crystal display that is adjacent to a front side of the half mirror that is a side of the half mirror that is opposite to the back side of the half mirror in the front-back direction of the vehicle, and projects an image toward the front side of the half mirror, wherein

the decorative member is arranged so as to provide a display superposed on the image projected by the liquid crystal display when visually recognized from a front side of the vehicular display apparatus.

2. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the decorative member is transparent acrylic member.

3. The vehicular display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the decorative member is an annular ring member, and

the annular ring member is arranged so as to provide a display superposed on an image of a scale projected by the liquid crystal display when visually recognized from the front side of vehicular display apparatus.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 5, 2023
From: YAZAKI CORPORATION
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063845/0802 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 19, 2016
From: NAKAJIMA, HARUTOSHI
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 040064/0460 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-206131 · Oct 20, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170106806A1 · Apr 20, 2017