ON-VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20090251328A1
• Filed: 01/15/2007
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Ikunami, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,049,603 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/691.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0028 Ceiling, e.g. roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0085 with adjustment by rotation in their operational position
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0092 with motorization

Abstract

An on-vehicle display device mounted on a ceiling including an open and close mechanism, which secures the rearward visibility during the backward driving of the vehicle and also enables the user to continue to enjoy display images. The on-vehicle display device includes a control means which controls the display 1, when the display 1 is open at a best view-angle position, to move in even more widely open direction to a predetermined angle (an displacement-angle position 1b), upon detection of entering a backward driving state of the vehicle. The display 1 is controlled to return to the best view-angle position when the backward driving state of the vehicle is terminated.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle display device which comprises a display open and close mechanism including a control means that electrically performs an open and close control of a ceiling-mounted display in a vehicle, wherein said control means controls the display, when it is open at a view-angle position, to move in even more widely open direction to a predetermined angle, upon detection of entering a backward driving state of the vehicle.

2. The on-vehicle display device of claim 1, in which said entering said backward driving state of the vehicle is detected by its transmission gear being shifted into a reverse position.

3. The on-vehicle display device of claim 1, in which said control means detects, while said display is stopping at said predetermined angle, that the backward driving state of the vehicle is terminated, and then controls said display to return to said view-angle position.

4. The on-vehicle display device of claim 3, in which said termination of the backward driving state of the vehicle is detected by its transmission gear being released from the reverse position.

5. The on-vehicle display device of claim 2, in which said control means detects, while said display is stopping at said predetermined angle, that the backward driving state of the vehicle is terminated, and then controls said display to return to said view-angle position.