Vehicle interior component

• US 10,279,735 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2015
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kasai Kogyo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Kasai Kogyo Company Limited
• Inventors: Nagashima, Katsuya, Seki, Toshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Morrow, Jason S
• Application Number:
  US15/546,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20180022275A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,504 Days
• Field of Search: 296 108, 362488
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/14 lighting through the surface to be illuminated
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/20 for lighting specific fittings of passenger or driving compartments; mounted on specific fittings of passenger or driving compartments lighting for dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/54 Lighting devices embedded in interior trim, e.g. in roof liners
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/02 Internal Trim mouldings ; Internal Ledges; Wall liners for passenger compartments; Roof liners B60R13/01 takes precedence ; padded linings for the vehicle interior B60R21/04; arrangements or adaptations of floor mats or carpets in vehicles B60N3/04; internal lining for trains B61D17/18
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/025 Pillars; Roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2013/0287 integrating other functions or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/04 Door pillars ; windshield pillars

Abstract

A vehicle interior component includes an interior component body arranged along a vehicle body member with a face thereof exposed to a vehicle room and a display unit arranged at the interior component body to perform displaying for a passenger. The display unit is arranged at a range extending from a rear-side face section of the interior component body to an inner-side face section thereof.

Claims

1. A vehicle interior component arranged at a vehicle body member in front of a driver'"'"'s seat, comprising:

an interior component body arranged along the vehicle body member with a face thereof exposed to a vehicle room, the interior component body including,

a rear-side face section faced to a rear side in a vehicle front-rear direction,

an inner-side face section faced to an inner side in a vehicle width direction, and

a curved section connected to the rear-side face section and the inner-side face section; and

a display unit including,

a light source configured to radiate light to the interior component body from a back face side thereof, and

a transmissive section configured to perform displaying to be visible from a front face side of the interior component body by being transmissively illuminated with light from the light source, the transmissive section arranged at a part including the curved section on the interior component body, wherein the transmissive section is formed by thinning a region of the interior component body,

the display unit at an area extending from the rear-side face section to the inner-side face section, the display unit not being visible when the light source is kept off.

2. The vehicle interior component according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle body member is a front pillar, and the display unit is arranged at a predetermined range on a lower side of the interior component body in a vehicle top-bottom direction.