Patent ID: 9304318
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: B60K,G02B

Claim Text:
1. A display device for a vehicle which has a display unit for displaying visible information and which reflects with a combiner and projects, toward a prescribed observation region, light carrying visible information to be displayed on the display unit to display the visible information in a form of a virtual image, the display device comprising: a deploying and accommodating mechanism configured to change a state of disposition of the combiner between a position of a use state in which a display can be seen in the observation region and a position of an unused state in which a display cannot be seen in the observation region; a light reflection suppressing cover capable of covering a surface, opposite to a projection surface, of the combiner; and a cover escape mechanism connected to the light reflection suppressing cover and moves the light reflection suppressing cover between cover position where the light reflection suppressing cover contacts and completely covers the opposite surface of the combiner, and an escape position where the light reflection suppressing cover is distant from the combiner at least when the combiner is located in the angle of the ghost suppression state, wherein the deploying and accommodating mechanism is configured to rotate the combiner about a rotational shaft; wherein the deploying and accommodating mechanism includes a restricting unit configured to restrict a rotation angle of the rotation shaft so as to set an inclination, with respect to a prescribed direction, of a surface of the combiner to a predetermined angle of a ghost suppression state at least when the combiner is located at the position of the use state, the ghost suppression state preventing formation of a visible ghost image and being accomplished solely by restricting the rotation angle of the rotation shaft by the restricting unit so as to set the predetermined angle of inclination of the surface of the combiner.