US Patent Issued to MAXELL on Dec. 2 for "Head-up display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,453, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Head-up display device" was invented by Akio Misawa (Kyoto, Japan), Nozomu Shimoda (Kyoto, Japan), Yuji Fujita (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigeki Hoshino (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The head-up display device includes a display element that emits image light and a virtual image optical system. The virtual image optical system includes a lens unit and a free curved surface mirror disposed along the emission direction of the image light in this order from a position close to the display element. The display element is disposed with a tilting attitude with respe...