Backlit bodywork element including a chrome layer
AssigneePO Lighting Czech, s.r.o.
InventorsMario Salas, Stephen Morris
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Abstract
A motor vehicle bodywork element comprising a body made of a transparent material comprising an internal face and an external face and a light source placed behind the internal face of the body, wherein the internal face is covered by a layer of metal deposit, said layer of metal deposit being covered by a layer of an opaque material, both layers being etched so as to form a pattern visible from the external face of the body, wherein the layer of opaque material is a second layer of metal deposit darker than the metal of the first layer.
Claims11
A motor vehicle bodywork element (10) comprising a body (11) made of a transparent material comprising an internal face (12) and an external face (14) and a light source (4) placed behind the internal face (12) of the body (11), wherein the internal face (12) is covered by a first layer of metal deposit (13), said first layer of metal deposit being covered by a layer of an opaque material (15), both layers being etched so as to form a pattern visible from the external face (14) of the body (11), wherein the layer of opaque material (15) is a second layer of metal deposit darker than the metal of the first layer (13).
A method (100) for manufacturing a motor vehicle bodywork element (10) comprising the following steps:
- providing (110) a body made of a transparent material comprising an internal face and an external face,
- covering (120) the internal face by a layer of metal deposit,
- covering (130) the layer of metal deposit by a layer of an opaque material which is a second layer of metal deposit, wherein the second layer of metal deposit is darker than the metal of the first layer of metal deposit,
- laser etching (140) the first and second layers so as to form a pattern visible from the external face of the body, and
- providing (150) a light source placed behind the internal face of the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.