Projection Type Patents (Class 116/246)
  • Patent number: 10654410
    Abstract: An in-vehicle lighting device includes: a panel that has a front surface and a back surface, and has a through-hole penetrating through the front surface and the back surface; a light source disposed on a side of the back surface of the panel; and a button inserted in the through-hole, the button including a front end part protruding from the front surface, an first intermediate part provided continuously with the front end part and located between the front surface and the back surface of the panel, a surface of the first intermediate part containing a material that reflects light emitted from the light source, and a back end part provided continuously with the first intermediate part and protrudes from the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Akimitsu Umekawa
  • Patent number: 10401624
    Abstract: A headup display device includes: a display having an emission surface that emits display light relating to predetermined information; a reflecting member that is disposed above the display and reflects the display light emitted from the display; a combiner part on which the display light reflected off the reflecting member is incident; a transmissive member that is disposed between the display and the reflecting member to cover the emission surface and transmits the display light emitted from the display toward the reflecting member; and a blocking member that is disposed above the transmissive member and blocks out light that is reflected off the transmissive member to be incident on the combiner part. A transmissive-member-side end of the blocking member is disposed to be movable from a first position where the light is blocked out to a second position closer to the transmissive member than the first position is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nakayama, Yutaka Masui, Kousuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10293396
    Abstract: One embodiment of a mirror or reflective surface is set onto a ridged material. The mirror or reflective surface is set at a precise angle by support legs that inserted into holes in the ridged material. The support legs can also be placed in storage notches in ridged material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jason Edward Smith
  • Patent number: 9862274
    Abstract: A vehicle display device 10 includes a combiner 4, provided between a windshield 1 and a driver's seat, and including a transparent region portion 4a and a display styling portion 40 having a light diffusion function, and an illuminating unit 3, which is capable of selectively illuminating the display styling portion 40 and the transparent region portion 4a at the periphery of the display styling portion 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Arai
  • Patent number: 7097316
    Abstract: A display for a vehicle, including a light source, an optical device to guide light from the light source and form the light from the light source into a light pointer, a head portion disposed above a meter surface to project the light pointer formed by the optical device on the meter surface from above of the meter surface, a driving device to rotate the head portion, and a height adjusting mechanism to adjust a height of the head portion to the meter surface to be capable of changing a length of the light pointer while projecting the light pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventor: Kenjirou Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 6329859
    Abstract: An N-way Circular Phase Interpolator interpolates the N phases of a reference clock signal to generate a tunable clock. By using more than two phases for interpolation, high excess frequencies as well as high precision (i.e. small jitter) are achieved. The N-way Circular Phase Interpolator provides for analog filtering in the phase domain, which attenuates the out-of-band phase noises thus further reducing the output jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: BitBlitz Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Bin Wu
  • Patent number: 4793277
    Abstract: A tire pressure detector for motor vehicles which is to be fastened to a wheel rim comprises a pressure switch actuated by the air pressure in the tire for monitoring the tire pressure. The pressure switch includes a reference pressure chamber with an electrically conductive switching diaphragm which closes the chamber toward the tire and which cooperates with a contact pin of the reference pressure chamber and an electric oscillating circuit connected to the latter in the detector housing. The reference pressure chamber (23) is axially clamped between a supporting ring and a spacing ring of insulating material in the metallic detector housing by a radial collar, which is formed, so that an annular gap is formed between the collar and the inner wall of the detector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Haas, Gerhard Hettich, Manfred Kamp, Hans-Dieter Schmid, Hans Schrumpf, Berthold Walter