VEHICLE HAVING AIR-CONDITIONING FUNCTION AND DISPLAY FUNCTION

• US 20150273984A1
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Subaru Corp.
• Original Assignee: Fuji Heavy Industries Limited (Subaru Corp.)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Takahito, NIWA, Makoto, NAGASAWA, Isamu, NUNOME, Tomoyuki, MIKUNI, Tsukasa
• Granted Patent: US 9,463,682 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00007 Combined heating, ventilating, or cooling devices control systems or mechanisms B60H1/00642
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00985 Control systems or circuits characterised by display or indicating devices, e.g. voice simulators characterised by the input of sound using a voice synthesizer B60H1/00757; B60H1/00978 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/3414 with means for adjusting the air stream direction B60H1/345 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/658 Dashboard parts used as air ducts
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles

Abstract

A vehicle includes: a front panel provided in front of an occupant traveling in the vehicle; an air-conditioning duct that forms at least one air outlet, through which a conditioned airflow is blown, in an upper portion of the front panel; a wind direction adjustment member capable of adjusting the conditioned airflow blown out of the air outlet such that the conditioned airflow flows from the air outlet toward the occupant; and at least one display member that displays information to the occupant. The display member is provided in the air-conditioning duct or the air outlet. The wind direction adjustment member is provided so as not to interfere a path between an image displayed by the display member and the occupant.

Claims

1. A vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function, comprising:

a front panel provided in front of an occupant in the vehicle;

an air-conditioning duct that forms at least one air outlet through which a conditioned airflow is blown in an upper portion of the front panel;

a wind direction adjustment member capable of adjusting the conditioned airflow blown out of the air outlet such that the conditioned airflow flows from the air outlet toward the occupant; and

at least one display member that displays information to the occupant, wherein

the display member is provided in the air-conditioning duct or the air outlet, and

the wind direction adjustment member is provided in a position that does not interfere with a display image to the occupant by the display member.

2. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 1, wherein

the at least one display member comprises:

a display device that displays an image by emitting light; and

a projection panel that is provided at a remove from the display device, and that forms a floating image in a remote position by reflecting light from the image on the display device internally a plurality of times, and

the floating image is formed between the at least one air outlet and the occupant.

3. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 2, further comprising a holder that is disposed in the air-conditioning duct at a remove from an inner surface of the air-conditioning duct such that the conditioned airflow flows around the holder, wherein the display member is provided in the air-conditioning duct or the at least one air outlet by providing at least the projection panel in the holder.

4. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 3, wherein

the holder has a substantially rhomboid sectional shape in which a first wing surface and a second wing surface oppose each other, the first wing surface and the second wing being formed in a projecting curved surface shape projecting in an orthogonal direction to the conditioned airflow flowing through the air-conditioning duct, and

the wind direction adjustment member adjusts an orientation of the conditioned airflow blown out of the at least one air outlet by adjusting a balance between the conditioned airflow that flows along the first wing surface and the conditioned airflow that flows along the second wing surface.

5. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 4, wherein

the projection panel reflects light from the image on the display device internally a plurality of times and then transmits the light, and is provided in a lying condition relative to the conditioned airflow on an air outlet side surface of the holder having the substantially rhomboid sectional shape, and

the display device is disposed in a lying condition relative to the conditioned airflow on a lower side of the projection panel.

6. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 3, wherein the wind direction adjustment member includes at least one of:

a movable plate provided in the air-conditioning duct or the air outlet to be capable of moving so as to vary a projection surface area intersecting the conditioned airflow, and

a sub-duct that communicates with the air-conditioning duct or forms an opening in a part of the front panel surrounding the air outlet, and that suctions or blows out an airflow.

7. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 4, wherein the wind direction adjustment member includes at least one of:

a movable plate provided in the air-conditioning duct or the air outlet to be capable of moving so as to vary a projection surface area intersecting the conditioned airflow, and

a sub-duct that communicates with the air-conditioning duct or forms an opening in a part of the front panel surrounding the air outlet, and that suctions or blows out an airflow.

8. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 5, wherein the wind direction adjustment member includes at least one of:

a movable plate provided in the air-conditioning duct or the air outlet to be capable of moving so as to vary a projection surface area intersecting the conditioned airflow, and

a sub-duct that communicates with the air-conditioning duct or forms an opening in a part of the front panel surrounding the air outlet, and that suctions or blows out an airflow.

9. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 2, wherein

the projection panel is provided in a position behind the air outlet as a part of the inner surface of the air-conditioning duct, and

the display device is disposed in the front panel in alignment with the projection panel.

10. The vehicle having an air-conditioning function and a display function according to claim 7, wherein the wind direction adjustment member includes at least one of:

a movable plate provided in the air-conditioning duct or the air outlet to be capable of moving so as to vary a projection surface area intersecting the conditioned airflow, and

a sub-duct that communicates with the air-conditioning duct or forms an opening in a part of the front panel surrounding the air outlet, and that suctions or blows out an airflow.