Vehicular display unit

• US 9,211,794 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2012
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Hagiwara, Shigeru, Totsuka, Shigeki
• Primary Examiner(s): Haughton, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US14/351,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20140320768A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.04, 361/679.56, 361/679.41, 361/679.3, 340/3.1, 340/461, 340/459, 340/995.26, 340/995.27, 340/525, 340/425.5
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/152 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/154 Combined instruments with analogue meters and additional displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/1868 according to driving situations
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/52 Control of displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/67 Foldable or movable displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/736 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/215 characterised by the combination of multiple visual outputs, e.g. combined instruments with analogue meters and additional displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/53 Movable instruments, e.g. slidable
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/654 the user being the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0229 for displays, e.g. cathodic tubes
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0084 with adjustment by linear movement in their operational position
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0092 : with motorization
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 : Input devices, e.g. touch panels

Abstract

A vehicular display unit includes: a main display disposed in a forward position of a driver and adapted to display vehicle information; an external display, other than the main display, disposed in the forward position of the driver, and switchable between a touch panel display mode for displaying vehicle information and capable of making a touch panel operation and an ordinary display mode for displaying the vehicle information and incapable of making the touch panel operation; a display mover mechanism configured to move the external display in a vehicular forward-rearward direction; and a controller for controlling the moving of the display mover mechanism based on a display movement request from the driver, vehicle speed information and a touch panel display request of the external display.

Claims

1. A vehicular display unit comprising:

a first display disposed in a forward position of a driver and adapted to display vehicle information;

a second display, other than the first display, disposed in the forward position of the driver, and switchable between a touch panel display mode for displaying vehicle information and capable of making a touch panel operation and an ordinary display mode for displaying the vehicle information and incapable of making the touch panel operation;

a display mover mechanism configured to move the second display in a vehicular forward-rearward direction; and

a controller for controlling the moving of the display mover mechanism based on a display movement request from the driver, vehicle speed information and a touch panel display request of the second display.

2. The vehicular display unit according to claim 1, wherein

in a case that the display movement request by the driver is present;

when the touch panel display request of the second display is present and a vehicle speed is present, the controller does not move the second display to a position closer to the driver.

3. The vehicular display unit according to claim 2, wherein

the controller can control a screen display onto the second display, and

in the case that the display movement request by the driver is present;

when the touch panel display request of the second display is present and the vehicle speed is present,

the controller so controls to display onto the second display that the second display cannot be moved.

4. The vehicular display unit according to claim 1, wherein

when the second display is positioned in a position close to the driver and the vehicle speed is present, the controller moves the second display to a position far away from the driver in the ordinary display mode instead of making the touch panel display mode even if the touch panel display request is present.