Display member
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakayuki Nagahara, Tomonori Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Kaneuchi
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Abstract
A display member includes an external appearance surface, a display layer having a first surface facing the external appearance surface and a second surface being opposite to the first surface and having a light transmission characteristic, and a decorative body facing the second surface of the display layer. The display layer has a display region on the first surface. The display member is configured to cause: (i) an output to be visually recognized in the display region when the display layer is turned on; and (ii) the decorative body to be visually recognized through the display region when the display layer is turned off.
Claims18
A display member comprising:
- a functional layer including an external appearance surface and an internal surface being opposite to the external appearance surface;
- a display layer which has a light transmission characteristic, and includes a first surface facing the internal surface of the functional layer, and a second surface being opposite to the first surface;
- and
- a decorative body which does not have a light transmission characteristic, and faces the second surface of the display layer,
- wherein:
- the display layer is on the decorative body;
- the functional layer is on the first surface of the display layer;
- the display layer includes a display region on the first surface;
- the display layer is configured to have an output be visually recognizable in the display region when the display layer is turned on;
- and
- the display layer is configured to have the decorative body be visually recognizable through the display region when the display layer is turned off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.