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US 2019/0160945 A1Published application
Meter Device and Meter Unit Provided with Meter Device
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsKentaro Otomo, Yukio Suzuki
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Abstract
A meter device includes a rotation shaft, a pointer provided in an end part of the rotation shaft and rotating integrally with the rotation shaft, an illumination light source which outputs visible rays to the pointer, a light source of infrared rays which is arranged in parallel to the illumination light source and outputs the infrared rays to the pointer, and a reflection part provided in the pointer to substantially reflect the visible rays into the pointer and to substantially pass and output the infrared rays from a central part of rotation of the pointer.
Claims6
A meter device comprising:
- a rotation shaft;
- a pointer provided in an end part of the rotation shaft and rotating integrally with the rotation shaft;
- an illumination light source which outputs visible rays to the pointer;
- a light source of infrared rays which is arranged in parallel to the illumination light source and outputs the infrared rays to the pointer;
- and
- a reflection part provided in the pointer to substantially reflect the visible rays into the pointer and to substantially pass and output the infrared rays from a central part of rotation of the pointer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.