IP Library Granted Patent US 10,025,097
Granted Patent B2
US 10,025,097 · App. 15/704,454 · Granted Jul 17, 2018

Head-up display and moving body equipped with head-up display

Inventors: Satoshi Kuzuhara (Osaka, JP); Hiroaki Okayama (Nara, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,025,097
App. No.
15/704,454
Granted
Jul 17, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Head-up display, which is mounted on a vehicle, performs projection on a transparent reflective member, and allows an observer to visually recognize a virtual image, includes display device that displays an image, and a projection optical system that has refractive optical system and projects displayed image displayed by display device on eye box of the observer. As an angle formed between a vector of a light beam that is incident on refractive optical system and a vector of an output light beam, the angle is greater at a light beam on an image end passing through a vehicle inner side of refractive optical system than at a light beam on an image end passing through a vehicle outer side of refractive optical system.

Claims (21)

1. A head-up display that is mounted on a vehicle, performs projection on a transparent reflective member, and allows an observer to visually recognize a virtual image, the head-up display comprising:

a display device that displays an image; and

a projection optical system that has a refractive optical system, and projects the image displayed by the display device on an eye box of the observer,

wherein:

an inner deflection angle is formed between a vector of a light beam incident on the refractive optical system and a vector of a light beam output from the refractive optical system on an optical path that passes in a vicinity of an end of a vehicle inner side in a range from the display device to the refractive optical system,

an outer deflection angle is formed between a vector of a light beam incident on the refractive optical system and a vector of a light beam output from the refractive optical system on an optical path that passes in a vicinity of an end of a vehicle outer side in the range from the display device to the refractive optical system, and

the inner deflection angle is larger than the outer deflection angle.

2. The head-up display according to claim 1 , satisfying a condition (1):

1.2<(θ2 i×θ 1 o )/(θ2 o×θ 1 i )<6.0  (1)

wherein,

θ1i is an angle formed between a vector of a reference inner side light beam that is incident on the transparent reflective member and a vector of a reference inner side light beam that is reflected from the transparent reflective member;

θ1o is an angle formed between a vector of a reference outer side light beam that is incident on the transparent reflective member and a vector of a reference outer side light beam that is reflected from the transparent reflective member;

θ2i is an angle formed between a vector of a reference inner side light beam Li that is incident on a lens of the refractive optical system and a vector of a reference inner side light beam Li output from the lens of the refractive optical system; and

θ2o is an angle formed between a vector of a reference outer side light beam Lo that is incident on the lens of the refractive optical system and a vector of a reference outer side light beam Lo that is output from the lens of the refractive optical system.

3. The head-up display according to claim 2 , wherein the refractive optical system is eccentric with respect to a reference light beam that is output from a center of a virtual image on an optical path of the displayed image.

4. The head-up display according to claim 3 , wherein the refractive optical system has a greater curvature in a vehicle right-left direction than in a vehicle front-rear direction.

5. The head-up display according to claim 2 , wherein the refractive optical system has a greater curvature in a vehicle right-left direction than in a vehicle front-rear direction.

6. The head-up display according to claim 1 , wherein the refractive optical system is eccentric with respect to a reference light beam that is output from a center of a virtual image on an optical path of the displayed image.

7. The head-up display according to claim 6 , wherein the refractive optical system has a greater curvature in a vehicle right-left direction than in a vehicle front-rear direction.

8. The head-up display according to claim 1 , wherein the refractive optical system has a greater curvature in a vehicle right-left direction than in a vehicle front-rear direction.

9. A moving body comprising the head-up display according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2024
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066703/0113 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 22, 2017
From: KUZUHARA, SATOSHI; OKAYAMA, HIROAKI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 044196/0263 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-128944 · Jun 26, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2016003030 · Jun 23, 2016
Related Publication 20180017790A1 · Jan 18, 2018
Cited By (1)
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