Patent ID: 6731252
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: B60K,G02B

Abstract:
A display source unit for a display device in a vehicle disposed at a ceiling of the interior of the vehicle, by which a light of a display image to be seen as a virtual image from an eye point in the interior of the vehicle is projected on a projected position visible from the eye point in such a manner that the light is reflected on the projected position to the eye point, comprisinga cover member, which is held by the ceiling and covers a part of the ceiling, consisting of two cover bodies divided each other in the front-and-rear direction of the vehicle, coupling the two cover bodies together in such a manner that a state of the coupling can be selected out of an unfolded state, in which the two cover bodies are brought close to the ceiling and extended along the ceiling, and a folded state, in which the two cover bodies are brought away from the ceiling and extended in an inclined direction relative to the ceiling, wherein a display device for luminously displaying the display image on a display surface thereof is mounted in the rear cover body out of the two cover bodies with the display surface facing the ceiling, while the front cover body out of the two cover bodies is provided with a light-outgoing section, which enables a light to come out from a space formed between the cover member and the part of the ceiling covered by the cover member toward the outside of said space,said space receives a reflector therein, and in the folded state of the cover member, the display device, the light-outgoing section and the reflector are relatively arranged to each other so that after being reflected by the reflector the light of the display image is irradiated on the projected position by way of the light-outgoing section and a virtual image of the display image is seen from the eye point.