Light guide plate providing protection for electronics components of a printed circuit board

A molded component assembly, comprising:

• a printed circuit board with a first face and an oppositely facing second face;
• multiple light emitting diodes mounted on a first portion of the first face;
• multiple electronics components mounted on a second portion of the first face;
• a light guide of a light translucent polymeric material positioned over the light emitting diodes and the electronic components, the light guide including:
• a contact surface directly contacting the first portion of the first face except at locations of the light emitting diodes;
• a cavity created in the contact surface, the electronics components located within the cavity when the contact surface directly contacts the first portion of the first face;
• and
• a through hole extending through a body of the light guide and opening into the cavity.

A molded component assembly, comprising:

• a printed circuit board with a first face and an oppositely facing second face;
• multiple light emitting diodes mounted on a first portion of the first face, each of the light emitting diodes defining a side-firing diode having visible light emitted from the light emitting diodes directed generally parallel to the first face;
• multiple electronics components mounted on a second portion of the first face;
• a light guide of a light translucent polymeric material positioned over the light emitting diodes and the electronic components, the light guide including:
• a contact surface directly contacting the first portion of the first face except at locations of the light emitting diodes;
• a cavity created in the contact surface, the electronics components located within the cavity when the contact surface directly contacts the first portion of the first face;
• a through hole extending through a body of the light guide and opening into the cavity;
• multiple light outlets individually aligned with one of the light emitting diodes to receive visible light emitted from the light emitting diodes, each of the light outlets defining an aperture;
• and
• multiple integrally formed light reflectors individually positioned proximate to one of the light outlets, each of the light reflectors including multiple beveled surfaces to reflect the visible light to the light outlets.