REAR-VIEW MIRROR SYSTEM WITH DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20090091851A1
• Filed: 09/19/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Lock Manufacturing Company Limited (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Lock Manufacturing Company Limited (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: SAKAMOTO, Hirosshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,308,310 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/844
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/04 mounted inside vehicle B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/12 Mirror assemblies combined with other articles, e.g. clocks
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1215 with information displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0033 Rear-view mirrors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0064 Connection with the article

Abstract

In a rear-view mirror system with display device in which a display device is attached to a rear-view mirror device disposed in a car room, a display device includes a display housing having a display window disposed at the periphery of a rear-view mirror and disposed in contiguous with a mirror housing, a light reflection device faced to the display window and disposed in the display housing, and a emission display device faced to the light reflection device and disposed in the display housing, in which a relative arrangement for the display window, the light reflection device, and the emission display device is determined such that emission display information displayed by the emission display device and reflected on the light reflection device transmits the display window, whereby the system can use an emission display device of low luminance while sufficiently ensuring the rearward view by the rear-view mirror, and can obtain emission information at the display window while decreasing the feeling of distance relative to images reflected on the rear-view mirror.

Claims

1. A rear-view mirror system with display device in which a rear-view mirror for obtaining a rearward view of a car is held in a mirror housing and a display device for displaying information different from that of the rearward view obtained by the rear-view mirror is attached to a rear-view mirror device disposed in a car room, wherein the display device includes a display housing having a display window disposed at the periphery of the rear-view mirror and disposed in contiguous with the mirror housing, a light reflection device disposed in the display housing while facing the display window, and an emission display device disposed in the display housing while facing the light reflection device, and a relative arrangement for the display window, the light reflection device, and the emission display device is determined such that the emission display information displayed by the emission display device and reflected on the light reflection device transmits the display window.

2. A rear-view mirror system with display device according to claim 1, wherein a light permeable cover member closing the display window is attached to the display housing with the outer surface thereof being situated so as to make an angle relative to the outer surface of the rear-view mirror.

3. A rear-view mirror system with display device according to claim 1, wherein the mirror housing is supported swivelably to a housing support portion on the side of a car body, and the display housing is disposed in contiguous with the mirror housing at a position close to the housing support portion.

4. A rear-view mirror system with display device according to claim 1, wherein the rear-view mirror is held in the mirror housing such that it can rotate between a not anti-dazzling position and an anti-dazzling position.