Indication system of meter part
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorsTadaoki Ichikawa, Toshinori Takahashi, Mitsuhiro Nawashiro, Norihito Kino, Hiroshi Ito
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Abstract
This invention is to offer an indication system and method of a meter part having excellent visibility and designing property. Alight is irradiated from the first light source toward the indicating panel from the side of the indicating face for making the background part of the indicating panel luminous with a complementary color to a color indicating the indicator part of pointers, graduations, numerals and others.
Claims13
An indication system of a meter part, comprising:
- an indicating panel including an indicator part luminous with an indicating color and a background part;
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- a first light source for irradiating light toward the indicating panel from a side of an indicating face with respect to the indicating panel;
- wherein the background part is illuminated by the first light source with a complementary color to the indicating color of the indicator part.
An indication method of a meter part, comprising the steps of:
- providing an indicator part of an indicating panel which is luminous with a first color,
- irradiating light from a first light source toward the indicating panel from a side of an indicating face with respect to the indicating panel, and
- making the background part of the indicating panel luminous with a second color which is complementary with the first color.
An indication method as set forth in 8, wherein the first color is a color of a warm color group, while the second color is a color of a cold color group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.