Vehicle mirror

• US 20030086192A1
• Filed: 08/22/2002
• Published: 05/08/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Biener, Yorek, Holleben, Heinrich von, Noll, Heinrich, Abel, Heinz-Bernhard, Vollmer, Andreas, Polz, Mathias, Lenart, Coloman
• Granted Patent: US 6,910,779 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/883
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/08 involving special optical features, e.g. avoiding blind spots , e.g. convex mirrors; Side-by-side associations of rear-view and other mirrors B60R1/025, B60R1/10 take precedence

Abstract

A vehicle mirror has a mirror glass (1) which also forms a substrate for an OLED display (7). This OLED display (7) fully covers the mirror glass (1). A front cover glass (5) forms the second substrate for the OLED display (7).

Claims

1. A vehicle mirror with a mirror glass and an organic light emitting display, formed by two substrates and an OLED layer, characterized in that the mirror glass (1) also forms one of the substrates of the OLED display (7).

2. The vehicle mirror as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the OLED display (7) extends over the entire surface of the mirror glass (1).

3. The vehicle mirror as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the mirror glass (1) forms the back substrate.

4. The vehicle mirror as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the mirror glass forms a semitransparent mirror (10) and also the front substrate (9) of the OLED display (7).

5. The vehicle mirror as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that the OLED display (7) is nontransparent in the inoperative state.

6. The vehicle mirror as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is designed as a dynamic vehicle mirror that reflects only when the OLED display (7) is operated.

7. The vehicle mirror as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is designed as a dielectric vehicle mirror that reflects only selected wavelengths.

8. The vehicle mirror as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that its OLED display (7) is designed in combination with a sensitive element to represent an overtaking vehicle situated in the blind spot.

9. The vehicle mirror as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the OLED display (7) is designed to represent the distance of a vehicle driving in front.

10. The vehicle mirror as claimed in at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that its OLED display (7) is designed in combination with a sensitive element to represent information related to the content of the reflection information.