Built-in instrument cluster

US7872569B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Kiesewetter · Braunschweig, DE
• Paolo Vaz · Wolfsburg, DE
• Niclas Meyer · Lehre, DE
• Gustav Hofmann · Braunschweig, DE
• Helge Neuner · Wasserburg am Inn, DE
• Robert Hofmann · Berlin, DE
• Ralf Wenzel · Meine, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 2005
• Grant date: Jan 18, 2011
• Expiry date: Jan 5, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B2027/0154
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A built-in instrument cluster for a motor vehicle includes at least one display device, which emits image-forming light and is arranged in the direct field of view of an observer, and at least one illuminated and/or self-illuminating electromechanical indicator device, which is arranged in the observer's field of view, at an angle to the display device, and is moved into the observer's field of view together with the display device via an optical combiner, which is arranged to reflect the image-forming light of the electromechanical indicator device. In order to be able to integrate such an instrument cluster into the tight spatial conditions in the instrument panel in the steering-column region, it is provided that the electromechanical indicator device is at least partially provided by light guides and/or light projectors to save depth at abutting vehicle components.