Display unit comprising a projection screen for a head-up display

• US 8,937,765 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2011
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls GmbH (Adient plc)
• Inventors: Hopf, Christian, Noel, Alexander, Rumpf, Horst
• Primary Examiner(s): Mahoney, Christ
• Application Number:
  US13/823,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20130235454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 359/443, 359/630, 345/7
• US Class Current: 359/443
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0005 Dashboard
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0085 with adjustment by rotation in their operational position
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0092 with motorization
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0181 Adaptation to the pilot/driver
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0149 characterised by mechanical features G02B27/0176 takes precedence

Abstract

A display unit includes a projection screen for a head-up display. The projection screen is mounted and arranged in a carrier element in such a way that it can pivot about an axis of inclination, the incline of the screen being adjustable by a pivoting device. The pivoting device includes at least one worm gear.

Claims

1. A display unit comprising:

a projection screen for a head-up display;

a carrier element, wherein the projection screen is mounted and arranged in the carrier element pivotably about an axis of inclination; and

a pivoting device, wherein the projection screen can be adjusted in its inclination by the pivoting device, the pivoting device comprising a two-stage worm gear,

wherein a first worm gear is coupled to an output shaft of a drive unit and rotates about a first axis of rotation;

wherein the first worm gear is connected to a second worm gear;

wherein the pivoting device is fastened to the carrier element and mounted resiliently by at least one spring element;

wherein a movement of the second worm gear in the longitudinal direction of the axis of rotation can be compensated and damped by the spring element; and

wherein the spring element at least partially surrounds the drive unit or the carrier element and acts upon the axis of rotation on the end faces of the second worm gear.

2. The display unit as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second worm has a first region and a second region, the first region including a gearwheel, wherein the toothing of the gearwheel of the first region of the second worm gear is designed to match with the first worm gear and wherein the second region of the second worm gear includes worm wheel-like flights.

3. The display unit as claimed in claim 1 wherein the axes of rotation of the first worm gear and the second worm gear run essentially at right angles to one another.

4. The display unit as claimed in claim 1 wherein a transmission element is arranged at a lower end of the projection screen or of a mount of the projection screen.

5. The display unit as claimed in claim 4, wherein the transmission element is designed in the form of a segment of an arc of a circle on a side facing the second region of the second worm gear.

6. The display unit as claimed in claim 4 wherein a toothing is introduced into the transmission element in the form of a segment of an arc of a circle and is designed to match with the second worm gear.

7. The display unit as claimed in claim 4 wherein the transmission element is connected operatively to the second worm gear in such a way that a rotational movement of the second worm gear about the axis of rotation leads to a pivoting movement of the projection screen about the axis of inclination.