Head-up display system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022334300-A1
Application number	US-202217857315-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 5, 2022
Priority date	Jan 15, 2020
Publication date	Oct 20, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

To improve the visibility of the HUD virtual image in a head-up display system for vehicles, where p-polarized visible light is incident on laminated glass from the vehicle interior side.This head-up display system is a head-up display system for vehicles, which has a light source that emits p-polarized visible light, and laminated glass to which the p-polarized visible light is incident from the vehicle interior side, and which displays a virtual image on the vehicle exterior side of the laminated glass, wherein the laminated glass is provided with a p-polarized light reflecting member in a region where the p-polarized visible light is incident, the incident angle of the p-polarized visible light to the vehicle interior side surface of the laminated glass is at least 42 deg and at most 72 deg, the laminated glass has a visible light reflectance of the p-polarized light of at least 5% when the incident angle is 57 deg, the virtual image includes a main image observed with the highest luminance and a subsidiary image observed with a lower luminance than the main image, and the ratio of the reflectance of the subsidiary image to the reflectance of the main image is at most 30% within the entire range of the incident angle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A head-up display system for vehicles, which displays a virtual image on the vehicle exterior side of laminated glass, and which comprises
laminated glass having a vehicle interior side surface and a vehicle exterior side surface, a light source that emits p-polarized visible light to the laminated glass, and a p-polarized light reflecting member provided at least in the region where the p-polarized visible light of the laminated glass is incident, wherein the incident angle of the p-polarized visible light to the vehicle interior side surface of the laminated glass is at least 42 deg and at most 72 deg, and the reflectance of the p-polarized visible light at an incident angle of the p-polarized visible light being 57 deg is at least 5%, the virtual image includes a main image which is observed with the highest luminance, and a subsidiary image which is observed with a lower luminance than the main image, among images that appear separated when the p-polarized visible light is incident on the laminated glass, and the ratio of the reflectance of the subsidiary image to the reflectance of the main image is at most 30% within the entire range of the incident angle of the p-polarized visible light.

2 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the ratio of the reflectance of the subsidiary image to the reflectance of the main image is at most 25%.

3 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the laminated glass has a reflectance of the p-polarized visible light of at least 10% at an incident angle of 57 deg.

4 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the laminated glass has a reflectance of the p-polarized visible light of at most 25% at an incident angle of 57 deg.

5 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the incident angle is at least 47 deg and at most 67 deg.

6 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the p-polarized light reflecting member is disposed on the vehicle interior side surface of the laminated glass.

7 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the head-up display system has a concave mirror disposed on the light path between the light source and the laminated glass, and
the minimum radius of the concave mirror is at least 100 mm and at most 700 mm.

8 . The head-up display system according to claim 7 , wherein the distance from the center of the eye box to the focal point of the virtual image based on SAE J1757-2 (2018), is at least 3,000 mm.

9 . The head-up display system according to claim 7 , wherein the minimum radius of the concave mirror is at least 100 mm and at most 600 mm.

10 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the laminated glass has a glass plate (vehicle interior side), a glass plate (vehicle exterior side) and an interlayer film, and the wedge angle of the glass plate (vehicle interior side) is larger than 0 mrad and at most 1.0 mrad, and the wedge angle of the interlayer film is larger than 0 mrad and at most 1.0 mrad.

11 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the p-polarized light reflecting member is a p-polarized light reflecting coating, wherein the p-polarized light reflecting coating contains at least one high refractive index material layer and at least one low refractive index material layer.

12 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the p-polarized light reflecting member is a p-polarized light reflecting coating, the absolute value of a*_Rout-a*R55 of the laminated glass is at most 10, and the absolute value of b*_Rout-b*R55 of the laminated glass is at most 10.

13 . The head-up display system according to claim 1 , wherein the laminated glass has a vehicle interior side glass plate, a vehicle exterior side glass plate and an interlayer film that joins the vehicle interior side glass plate and the vehicle exterior side glass plate,
in the laminated glass, at least one of members located on the vehicle exterior side than the p-polarized light reflecting member, among the vehicle interior side glass plate, the vehicle exterior side glass plate, and the interlayer film, has a wedge-shaped cross-sectional area in which the thickness increases from the bottom side to the top side of the laminated glass in such a state that the laminated glass is mounted on the vehicle.

14 . The head-up display system according to claim 13 , wherein the p-polarized light reflecting member is disposed between the vehicle interior glass plate and the vehicle exterior glass plate in contact with the interlayer film,
in the laminated glass, the vehicle interior side glass plate and/or the interlayer film located on the vehicle exterior side than the p-polarized light reflecting member, as well as the vehicle interior side glass plate and/or the interlayer film located on the vehicle interior side than the p-polarized light reflecting member, have a wedge-shaped cross-sectional area.

15 . The head-up display system according to claim 13 , wherein the p-polarized light reflecting member is disposed on the vehicle interior side of the vehicle interior side glass plate,
in the laminated glass, at least one among the vehicle interior glass plate, the vehicle exterior glass plate, and the interlayer film, has a wedge-shaped cross-sectional area.

16 . The head-up display system according to claim 13 , wherein the sum of the wedge angles of the members located on the vehicle exterior side than the p-polarized light reflecting member, and/or the sum of the wedge angles of the members located on the vehicle interior side than the p-polarized light reflecting member, is larger than 0 mrad and at most 1.0 mrad.

17 . The head-up display system according to claim 13 , wherein the laminated glass has a plurality of members with the cross-sectional wedge shape, and the sum of the wedge angles of the plurality of members is at most 1.2 mrad.

18 . The head-up display system according to claim 13 , wherein the amount of separation between the main image and the subsidiary image is at most 1 mrad.

Assignees

• Agc Inc

Inventors

• Sadakane Shunsuke
• Nishizawa Yusuke

Classifications

• B32B17/10761

  containing vinyl acetal · CPC title

• B32B17/10174

  Coatings of a metallic or dielectric material on a constituent layer of glass or polymer · CPC title

• B32B17/10458

  Polarization selective transmission · CPC title

• B60R11/02

  for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof · CPC title

• G02B5/3066 Primary

  involving the reflection of light at a particular angle of incidence, e.g. Brewster's angle · CPC title