Head-up display device

• US 8,941,924 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Go, Aoki, Kunimitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): GREECE, JAMES R
• Application Number:
  US13/614,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20130010366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: 359630-638
• US Class Current: 359/633
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/015 involving arrangement aiming to get less bulky devices
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0101 characterised by optical features G02B27/0172 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/09 Multifaceted or polygonal mirrors , e.g. polygonal scanning mirrors; Fresnel mirrors

Abstract

A head-up display device which can be applied to various types of vehicles is provided without causing cost increase. A head-up display device which makes a virtual image to be formed by projecting display light on a windshield of a vehicle includes a housing, an indicator which is provided in the housing, and a reflector which is provided in the housing, and includes a plurality of reflecting surfaces which are arranged in parallel with each other and inclined at the same angle so that the display light which is irradiated from the indicator is reflected by the reflecting surfaces.

Claims

1. A head-up display device which makes a virtual image to be formed by projecting display light in a virtual-image forming area on a windshield of a vehicle, the head-up display device comprising:

a housing disposed below the windshield;

an indicator which is provided in the housing;

a reflector which is detachably fixed at a predetermined position in the housing to reflect a display light which is irradiated directly from the indicator; and

an enlargement mirror by which the display light reflected by the reflector is enlarged and led to the virtual-image forming area on the windshield, wherein

the reflector includes a linear Fresnel lens in which a plurality of slopes which are arranged in parallel with each other and inclined at the same angle are formed, and the slopes serve as reflecting surfaces by being mirrored, the linear Fresnel lens being formed by injection molding of resin, and

the reflector is selected and fixed in the housing so that the angle of the slopes is set to direct the display light output from the housing toward the virtual-image forming area on the windshield through the enlargement mirror.

2. The head-up display device according to claim 1, wherein

front surfaces of the slopes of the reflector serve as the reflecting surfaces.

3. The head-up display device according to claim 1, wherein

back surfaces opposite to front surfaces of the slopes of the reflector serve as the reflecting surfaces, and the display light which enters from the back surfaces of the linear Fresnel lens is reflected by the reflecting surfaces.

4. The head-up display device according to claim 3, wherein

the back surface of the linear Fresnel lens is inclined relative to a processed surface which is formed with the slopes.