Automotive display device

• US 10,222,825 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2015
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Seong Min, Kim, MuGyeom, Kim, Soo Youn, Sang, Hyeonjeong, Lee, Jae Won
• Primary Examiner(s): Aychillhum, Andargie M
• Application Number:
  US14/852,643
• Publication Number:
  US 20160259365A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,268 Days
• Field of Search: 361749, 348837
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/20 Optical features of instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/774 on or in the centre console
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/223 Flexible displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/53 Movable instruments, e.g. slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0007 Mid-console
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133305 Flexible substrates, e.g. plastics, organic film
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133308 Support structures for LCD panels, e.g. frames or bezels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/049 giving information to passengers inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 9/301 flexible foldable or roll-able electronic displays, e.g. thin LCD, OLED
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/02 Flexible displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/10 Automotive applications
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0017 : with operator interface units
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0021 : Side-by-side or stacked arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0217 : Mechanical details of casings covers, lids, hoods or members for covering apertures H05K5/03

Abstract

An automotive display device on which an image may be displayed, the automotive display device being for a vehicle interior, the automotive display device including an automotive frame, at least part of the automotive frame being bendable; and a bending controller to control bending of the automotive frame.

Claims

1. An automotive display device on which an image may be displayed into a vehicle interior, the automotive display device comprising:

a display frame, at least part of the display frame being bendable; and

a bending controller to control bending of the display frame,

wherein the display frame includes;

a flexible display that is bendable, the flexible display to display the image, the bending controller controlling bending of the flexible display; and

a non-display frame that is bendable, the non-display frame not displaying the image, and

wherein a first end of the flexible display contacts the non-display frame and a second end of the flexible display is spaced apart from the non-display frame when the flexible display is unbent with respect to a bending axis.

2. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flexible display includes:

a flexible display panel to display the image; and

a touch screen panel on the flexible display panel to sense a touch or proximity touch.

3. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the non-display frame is maintained in a bent state.

4. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the non-display frame is unbent when the flexible display is unbent.

5. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the flexible display displays the image at one or more of a state when the flexible display is bent with respect to the bending axis and a state when the flexible display is unbent with respect to the bending axis.

6. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display frame covers an accommodating part between a plurality of seats.

7. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display frame senses a user'"'"'s touch, a user'"'"'s proximity touch, an object'"'"'s touch, or an object'"'"'s proximity touch to display a control unit image controlling the image.

8. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the flexible display includes:

a first flexible display that is bendable; and

a second flexible display spaced apart from the first flexible display, the second flexible display being bendable.

9. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein a first end of the first flexible display contacts the non-display frame and a second end of the first flexible display is spaced apart from the non-display frame when the first flexible display is unbent with respect to a first bending axis.

10. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second flexible display is maintained in a bent state.

11. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first flexible display has a first radius of curvature and the second flexible display has a second radius of curvature different from the first radius of curvature.

12. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first flexible display displays a first display image, and the first flexible display includes:

a separation area spaced apart from the non-display frame when the first flexible display is unbent, the separation area displaying the first display image; and

a fixing area contacting the non-display frame when the first flexible display is unbent, the fixing area displaying at least one of the first display image and a first control image controlling the first display image.

13. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the flexible display further includes a third flexible display spaced apart from each of the first and second flexible displays.

14. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the third flexible display is bendable.

15. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the third flexible display has a third radius of curvature.

16. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein a first end of the third flexible display contacts the non-display frame and a second end of the third flexible display is spaced apart from the non-display frame when the third flexible display is unbent with respect to a second bending axis.

17. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein at least one of the first flexible display, the second flexible display, and third flexible display is maintained in a bent state.

18. An automotive display device, comprising:

a flexible display that is bendable, the flexible display in a vehicle to display an image; and

a non-display frame that is bendable, the non-display frame in the vehicle to surround the flexible display,

wherein the flexible display displays the image when the flexible display is unbent, and

wherein a first end of the flexible display contacts the non-display frame and a second end of the flexible display is spaced apart from the non-display frame when the flexible display is unbent with respect to a bending axis.

19. The automotive display device as claimed in claim 18, wherein the non-display frame is fixed inside the vehicle.

20. An automotive display device on which an image may be displayed into a vehicle interior, the automotive display device comprising:

a display frame, at least part of the display frame being bendable; and

a bending controller to control bending of the display frame,

wherein the display frame includes;

a flexible display that is bendable, the flexible display to display the image, the bending controller controlling bending of the flexible display; and

a non-display frame that is bendable, the non-display frame not displaying the image,

wherein the flexible display includes;

a first flexible display that is bendable; and

a second flexible display spaced apart from the first flexible display, the second flexible display being bendable, and

wherein a first end of the flexible display contacts the non-display frame and a second end of the flexible display is spaced apart from the non-display frame when the flexible display is unbent with respect to a bending axis.