IP Library Granted Patent US 10,464,477
Granted Patent B2
US 10,464,477 · App. 16/114,366 · Granted Nov 5, 2019

Vehicle display device

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Patent No.
US 10,464,477
App. No.
16/114,366
Granted
Nov 5, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle display device includes: a housing unit having an opening facing an eye point side of a vehicle; a decorative member disposed inside the housing unit; a display device configured to display an image inside the housing unit, a drive device configured to move the decorative member in a width direction of the housing unit; and an illumination device operated depending on a movement of the decorative member to irradiate the decorative member with light. The illumination device may have a plurality of light sources arranged along the width direction.

Claims (17)

1. A vehicle display device comprising:

a housing unit that has an opening facing an eye point side of a vehicle;

a decorative member disposed inside the housing unit;

a display device that displays an image inside the housing unit;

a drive device that moves the decorative member in a width direction of the housing unit; and

an illumination device operated depending on a movement of the decorative member, and disposed in an upper side with respect to the decorative member in a height direction in an internal space of the housing unit to irradiate a surface of the decorative member facing the eye point side with light.

2. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the illumination device has a plurality of light sources that is arranged along the width direction, and

the illumination device changes the light source to be turned on depending on a movement of the decorative member.

3. The vehicle display device according to claim 2 , wherein

the illumination device turns on and then gradually lights up the light source of a front side in a movement direction of the decorative member, and gradually lights down and then turns off the light source of a rear side in the movement direction of the decorative member.

4. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the illumination device moves in the width direction along with the decorative member.

5. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the illumination device has a unit that changes an optical axis direction of emitted light to change the optical axis direction depending on a movement of the decorative member.

6. The vehicle display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the illumination device operates depending on a relative movement of the decorative member with respect to the illumination device.

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 Aug 28, 2018
From: MAEDA, TOMOHIRO; SUGIYAMA, TOMOHIRO; NAGASHIMA, DAISUKE; AONO, YUUSUKE
To: YAZAKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 046724/0638 →