Display arrangement in a vehicle

• US 6,674,370 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2001
• Issued: 01/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Ruoff, Harald, Wagner, Kai, Rodewald, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): POPE, DARYL C
• Application Number:
  US09/853,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20020005777A1
• Time in Patent Office: 967 Days
• Field of Search: 359/548, 359/555, 359/520, 359/604, 359/841, 359/843, 359/844, 359/877, 340/815.4, 340/438, 340/459, 340/461
• US Class Current: 340/815.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/04 mounted inside vehicle B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/10 Front-view mirror arrangements; specially adapted for covering the peripheral part of the vehicle B60R1/002; Periscope arrangements , i.e. optical devices using combinations of mirrors, lenses, prisms or the like specially adapted for covering the peripheral part of the vehicle B60R1/002; for viewing traffic-lights B60R1/005; Other mirror arrangements giving a view from above or under the vehicle

Abstract

A display apparatus on the vehicle ceiling, in front of a partition wall which blocks the view of the rear window from the internal rear-view mirror, in order to display information, in particular about an area to the rear of the vehicle which is monitored by a monitoring device. When driving rearwards, the internal mirror is deflected, for example being pivoted automatically upwards from the position of the direction of travel selection lever, so that the driver can read the display, which is otherwise located outside the mirror field of view, via the rear-view mirror.

Claims

1. A vehicle arrangement comprising:

a rear-view mirror mounted on the interior of the vehicle and observable by a driver, the rear-view mirror being automatically switchable between a first alignment and at least one further alignment as a function of at least one variable vehicle parameter; and

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a display apparatus mounted in the interior of the vehicle which, in one of said at least one further alignment, is observable by said driver via the rear-view mirror.

2. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein, at least in the first alignment, the rear-view mirror can be adjusted automatically for different specific drivers.

3. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the display apparatus is positioned on the vehicle ceiling.

4. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein a partition wall is positioned behind the driver, and the display apparatus is arranged in front of the partition wall.

5. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said at least one variable vehicle parameter is the direction of travel selected via a direction of travel selection apparatus, and one of the at least one further alignment of the rear-view mirror is associated with the selection of the rearward direction of travel.

6. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein a monitoring device is provided for a rearward monitoring area, and information obtained via the monitoring device is displayed via the display apparatus.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein one of said at least one variable vehicle parameter is the position of a partition wall which is positioned behind the vehicle, and one of the at least one further alignment of the rear-view mirror is associated with the state of the positioned partition wall.

8. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said display apparatus is observable by said driver through reflection in said rear-view mirror.

9. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein said display apparatus is not observable by said driver in said first alignment of said rear-view mirror.