Display element having adjustable inclination for head-up display

• US 10,133,072 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2017
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Inventors: Pitz, Gerhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Mahoney, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US15/789,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20180039081A1
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 359443, 359632
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0154 with movable elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0163 Electric or electronic control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0149 characterised by mechanical features G02B27/0176 takes precedence

Abstract

A display element includes a projection screen for a head-up display and a pivot apparatus for adjusting an inclination of the projection screen about a horizontal inclination axis. The pivot apparatus includes an eccentric unit for adjusting the inclination. The eccentric unit is mechanically coupled directly to the projection screen. The eccentric unit includes a first gearwheel and an eccentric element which is formed eccentrically with respect to the first gearwheel and is fastened on the first gearwheel. The eccentric element is in the form of a disk and an area of a narrow side of the disk-shaped eccentric element is arranged eccentrically with respect to the first gearwheel.

Claims

1. A display unit comprising:

a projection screen for a head-up display;

a pivot apparatus for adjusting an inclination of the projection screen about a horizontally running axis of inclination,

wherein the pivot apparatus comprises an eccentric unit for adjusting the inclination,

wherein the eccentric unit is mechanically coupled directly to the projection screen,

wherein the eccentric unit comprises a first gear wheel and an eccentric element which is formed eccentrically with respect to the first gear wheel and is fastened to the first gear wheel,

wherein the eccentric element has an area with a plurality of protrusions such that a distance of an area of a narrow side of the eccentric element is arranged eccentrically and at different distances with respect to the first gear wheel.

2. The display unit of claim 1, wherein the projection screen is a transparent screen.

3. The display unit of claim 1, wherein the projection screen is continuously located above a dashboard of a vehicle within a viewing range of a driver.

4. The display unit of claim 1, wherein the projection screen is retractable into a cavity within a dashboard of a vehicle.

5. The display unit of claim 1, wherein the first gear wheel is mechanically coupled to a first drive shaft.

6. The display unit of claim 5, wherein the first drive shaft is of helical design in at least some sections and forms a first worm gearing with the first gear wheel.

7. The display unit of claim 5, wherein the first drive shaft is actuated by an actuating unit, wherein the actuating unit is a manual drive coupled to the eccentric unit by a gearing from a second gear wheel fastened to the first drive shaft and a third gear wheel fastened to the actuating unit.

8. The display unit of claim 5, wherein the first drive shaft is actuated by an actuating unit, wherein the actuating unit is a motorized drive.

9. The display unit of claim 8, wherein the actuating unit is mechanically coupled to a second drive shaft which is drivable by the actuating unit, wherein the second drive shaft is of helical design in at least some sections and forms a second worm gearing together with the second gear wheel.

10. The display unit of claim 9, wherein an adjustment of a transmission ration between rotational movement of the actuating unit and a strength of the adjustment of the inclination of the projection screen is predeterminable by adjusting transmission ratios of the worm gearings and the eccentric unit.

11. A display unit comprising:

a transparent projection screen for a head-up display;

a pivot apparatus for adjusting an inclination of the projection screen about a horizontally running axis of inclination,

wherein the pivot apparatus comprises an eccentric unit for infinitely variably adjusting the inclination without an end stop,

wherein the eccentric unit is mechanically coupled directly to the projection screen,

wherein the eccentric unit comprises a first gear wheel and an eccentric element which is formed eccentrically with respect to the first gear wheel and is fastened to the first gear wheel.

12. The display unit of claim 11, wherein the projection screen is continuously located above a dashboard of a vehicle within a viewing range of a driver.

13. The display unit of claim 11, wherein the projection screen is retractable into a cavity within a dashboard of a vehicle.

14. The display unit of claim 11, wherein the eccentric element is of disk-shaped design.

15. The display unit of claim 14, wherein an area of a narrow side of the eccentric element is arrangement eccentrically with respect to the first gear wheel.

16. The display unit of claim 11, wherein the first gear wheel is mechanically coupled to a first drive shaft.

17. The display unit of claim 16, wherein the first drive shaft is of helical design in at least some sections and forms a first worm gearing with the first gear wheel.

18. The display unit of claim 16, wherein the first drive shaft is actuated by an actuating unit, wherein the actuating unit is a manual drive coupled to the eccentric unit by a gearing from a second gear wheel fastened to the first drive shaft and a third gear wheel fastened to the actuating unit.

19. The display unit of claim 16, wherein the first drive shaft is actuated by an actuating unit, wherein the actuating unit is a motorized drive.

20. The display unit of claim 19, wherein an adjustment of a transmission ration between rotational movement of the actuating unit and a strength of the adjustment of the inclination of the projection screen is predeterminable.