Display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10046639-B2
Application number	US-201615580170-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 27, 2016
Priority date	Jun 11, 2015
Publication date	Aug 14, 2018
Grant date	Aug 14, 2018

Abstract

A display apparatus includes: a dial having a first surface, a second surface and an opening; a meter; a decorative part at a peripheral part of the meter; a display at a second surface side and displaying an image; and a controller controlling an image display state. An outermost area of the display overlaps with a part of the meter. The decorative part includes: a body member having a light-transmitting property; and a surface-treated layer having a light-transmitting property and a light-reflecting property. The controller switches the state of image display in the outermost area and a non-overlapping area. The decorative part is visually recognized due to the light-reflecting property of the surface-treated layer when the image is in the non-overlapping area. The image is visually recognized in an overlapping part of the decorative part due to the light-transmitting property when the image is in the outermost area.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display apparatus comprising:
a dial that has
a first surface being a visual recognition side,
a second surface being a side opposite to the first surface, and
an opening;

a meter of an analog type that is arranged at a first surface side of the dial;
a decorative part for decoration that is arranged at a peripheral part of the meter;
a display that is arranged at a second surface side of the dial and displays an image through the opening; and
a controller that controls a state of image display on the display, wherein:
an outermost area of the display is arranged to overlap with a part of the meter, which includes the decorative part, in a projection from the first surface side;
the decorative part includes
a body member that has a light-transmitting property, and
a surface-treated layer that is arranged on a surface of the body member, and has both of a light-transmitting property and a light-reflecting property;

the controller switches the state of the image display on the display at the outermost area, and switches the state of the image display on the display at a non-overlapping area, which does not overlap with the meter including the decorative part;
the decorative part is visually recognized entirely due to the light-reflecting property of the surface-treated layer when the image is displayed in the non-overlapping area; and
the image on the display is visually recognized in an overlapping part of the decorative part overlapping with the outermost area due to the light-transmitting property of the surface-treated layer when the image is displayed in the outermost area.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image on the display visually recognized in the overlapping part is a decoration correspondent image, which is provided by the controller, to correspond to the overlapping part.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a light source that illuminates a non-overlapping part of the decorative part, which does not overlap with the outermost area, in a color different from the decoration correspondent image from the second surface side,
wherein the controller controls illumination of the light source.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the decorative part includes:
a refractive part that refracts light of the image on the display such that the light spreads in an area of the decorative part in a width direction intersecting with a peripheral direction; and
a reflective part that reflects the light of the image on the display in a direction along the surface of the dial at an edge of the decorative part in the width direction.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller controls an adjustment such that a color and brightness of an area corresponding to a boundary with the decorative part in the image on the display match a color and brightness of light after the image on the display is transmitted through the decorative part.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller controls an adjustment such that a color and brightness of an area corresponding to a boundary with the decorative part in an image on the display are gradated from a color and brightness of an area corresponding to the decorative part to a color and brightness of an unformed area in which the decorative part is not arranged.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Tane Seigo
• Tamura Satoru

Classifications

• G01D11/28 Primary

  Structurally-combined illuminating devices · CPC title

• G01D7/00

  Indicating measured values · CPC title

• B60K2350/352

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60K35/00 Primary

  Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles · CPC title

• B60K2350/1064

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic