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Electro-optical display without reflection

  • US 4,521,078 A
  • Filed: 05/14/1981
  • Issued: 06/04/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In an electro-optical display on an instrument panel of an automotive vehicle, said display including a liquid crystal layer and a polarization filter, said display for displaying characters and symbols in said liquid crystal layer the improvement whereina depth of installation of said device on said instrument panel is commensurate with the distance between said filter and said layer;

  • andmeans for swingably mounting said display on said instrument panel are provided so that a central plane through the characters and symbols of the liquid crystal layer is selectively arrangeable in positions other than 90 degrees relative to a direction in which the observer sitting normally in the vehicle views the liquid crystal display and the configuration of the characters and symbols appearing in the liquid crystal layer is a projection of characters and symbols which is perceivable by the observer from a plane vertical to said direction of view of the observer to said plane of the liquid crystal layer.

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