Display device and mobile object

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11262582-B2
Application number	US-201916659576-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2019
Priority date	Nov 28, 2018
Publication date	Mar 1, 2022
Grant date	Mar 1, 2022

Abstract

A display device and a mobile object. The display device is installable in a mobile object, and includes a light source, an image former to receive light emitted from the light source and output image light that forms an image, a screen on which the image light forms the image, a housing that houses the light source and the image former, and a holding member to hold the screen. The holding member is attached to the housing with a normal direction of a surface of the screen intersecting with a vertical direction and with a front-and-rear direction of the mobile object. A width of the housing is narrower than a width of the holding member. The mobile object includes the display device, a front windshield to reflect the image light, and an image-forming optical system to project the image light projected from the screen toward the front windshield.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device installable in a mobile object, the display device comprising:
a light source;
an image former configured to receive light emitted from the light source and output image light that forms an image;
a screen on which the image light forms the image;
a housing that houses the light source and the image former; and
a holder that holds the screen, wherein
the holder, holding the screen, is removably attachable to and detachable from the housing, and
in a case that the holder is attached to the housing, a normal direction of a surface of the screen intersects with a vertical direction and with a front-and-rear direction of the mobile object.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the holder is attached to the housing, the normal direction of the surface of the screen intersects with a plane including the vertical direction and the front-and-rear direction of the mobile object.

3. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein in a case that the holder is attached to the housing, the normal direction of the surface of the screen is aligned with a right-and-left direction of the mobile object.

4. A mobile object, comprising:
the display device according to claim 1 ;
a front windshield that reflects the image light; and
an image-forming optical system configured to project the image light projected from the screen toward the front windshield, wherein
the screen, through which the image light diverges, projects the image light.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the holder includes a first holder and a second holder that are engaged with each other to sandwich the screen.

6. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein the first holder is removably attached to and detachable from the housing to attach and detach the holder to and from the housing.

7. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein the first holder includes an opening window for the screen.

8. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein the first holder is composed from a metal and the second holder is composed of a resin.

9. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein elastic members are attached to the first holder and face protrusions of the second holder to engage the first holder with the second holder.

10. A display device installable in a mobile object, the display device comprising:
a light source;
an image former configured to receive light emitted from the light source and output image light that forms an image;
a screen on which the image light forms the image;
a housing that houses the light source and the image former; and
a holder that holds the screen, wherein
a width of the housing is narrower than a width of the holder, and
the holder, holding the screen, is removably attachable to and detachable from the housing.

11. The display device according to claim 10 , wherein
the image former is configured to scan the image light two-dimensionally in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction to form the image, and
the width of the housing is narrower than the width of the holder in the main scanning direction.

12. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein the holder is removably attachable to the housing at both ends in the sub-scanning direction.

13. The display device according to claim 10 , further comprising:
a plurality of attachment portions attached to an installation portion, wherein
the holder is removably attached to the housing with a centroid being located inside an area surrounded by the plurality of attachment portions.

14. The display device according to claim 13 , wherein when the holder is disposed, a second attachment surface attached to the housing is inclined with respect to a first attachment surface through which the display device is attached to the installation portion.

15. A mobile object, comprising:
the display device according to claim 10 ;
a front windshield that reflects the image light; and
an image-forming optical system configured to project the image light projected from the screen toward the front windshield, wherein
the screen through which the image light diverges projects the image light.

16. The display device according to claim 10 , wherein the holder includes a first holder and a second holder that are engaged with each other to sandwich the screen.

17. The display device according to claim 16 , wherein the first holder is removably attached to and detachable from the housing to attach and detach the holder to and from the housing.

18. The display device according to claim 16 , wherein the first holder includes an opening window for the screen.

19. The display device according to claim 16 , wherein the first holder is composed from a metal and the second holder is composed of a resin.

20. The display device according to claim 16 , wherein elastic members are attached to the first holder and face protrusions of the second holder to engage the first holder with the second holder.

Assignees

• Gotoh Tokiko
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gotoh Tokiko

Classifications

• B60K35/50

  Instruments characterised by their means of attachment to or integration in the vehicle (B60K35/231 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60K35/22

  Display screens · CPC title

• B60K37/20

  Dashboard panels · CPC title

• B60K35/60

  Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles (arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10) · CPC title

• B60K35/23

  Head-up displays [HUD] (optical aspects of head-up displays G02B27/01) · CPC title