IP Library Granted Patent US 10,527,919
Granted Patent B2
US 10,527,919 · App. 15/987,658 · Granted Jan 7, 2020

Display device

Inventor: Koji Taniguchi (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
G03B21/28G02B27/0101G03B21/006
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Patent No.
US 10,527,919
App. No.
15/987,658
Granted
Jan 7, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device has a housing, a video generator, and a mirror. The mirror has a mirror body and a supported portion. The mirror body has a plate shape. The supported portion is provided at at least one end portion in a first direction of the mirror body, and is supported by the housing to be rotatable around a rotating axis along the first direction. The mirror body has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is located at a position overlapping the supported portion in a second direction crossing a thickness direction and the first direction of the mirror body. The second portion is located at a position different from the supported portion in the second direction. Rigidity per unit width of the first portion in the second direction is greater than rigidity per unit width of the second portion in the second direction.

Claims (18)

1. A display device comprising:

a housing;

a video generator configured to project a video; and

a mirror provided inside the housing, and configured to reflect the video projected from the video generator and to project the reflected video to an outside of the housing,

wherein the mirror has:

a plate-shaped mirror body having a reflecting surface; and

a supported portion provided at at least one end portion in a first direction of the mirror body, and supported by the housing to be rotatable around a rotating axis along the first direction,

the mirror body has a first portion located at a position overlapping the supported portion in a second direction crossing a thickness direction and the first direction of the mirror body, and a second portion located at a position different from the supported portion in the second direction, and

rigidity per unit width of the first portion in the second direction is greater than rigidity per unit width of the second portion in the second direction.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first portion and the second portion are formed entirely in the first direction of the mirror body.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the second portion is located at both ends in the second direction of the mirror body.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness in the first portion of the mirror body is larger than a thickness in the second portion.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the reflecting surface is concave in a substantially entire part of the reflecting surface,

a surface on an opposite side of the mirror body from the reflecting surface is convex in a substantially entire part of the surface, and

a curvature of the reflecting surface is smaller than a curvature of the surface on the opposite side.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first portion has a rib projecting on an opposite side of the mirror body in respect to the reflecting surface and extending in a projecting line in the first direction.

7. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein a material of the first portion has rigidity greater than rigidity of a material of the second portion.

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 066703/0177 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 27, 2018
From: TANIGUCHI, KOJI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 046705/0639 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-108166 · May 31, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180348619A1 · Dec 6, 2018