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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
May. 29, 2002
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display device for a motor vehicle includes an indicator for providing a displayed image, arranged internally in the vehicle; a combiner for reflecting image light of the displayed image toward an eye point I of a driver of the vehicle, a virtual image S of the displayed image which can be visually recognized from the eye point being displayed on the combiner ; and meter units for displaying a status of the vehicle as a real image, the meter units being located between the combiner and the eye point at a position outside an optical path of the image light of the displayed image. The combiner has a contour which can be visually recognized from the eye point and nearly surrounds the virtual image and a real image of the meter units . In such a configuration, a display with a sense of unity between a real image and a virtual image can be realized while avoiding an increase of a dashboard in size and complication thereof in structure.