Laminated light guide and electrical component carrier

A laminated light guide and component carrier, comprising:

• a light guide of a light transmissive polymeric material, the light guide having a pocket created in a first face;
• first electrical traces printed on the first face of the light guide;
• a light emitting diode positioned in the pocket and supported on the light guide by attachment legs which extend outward from the pocket to electrically connect the light emitting diode to the first electrical traces;
• a light reflector formed as a texturally modified area of the light guide within the light guide, the light reflector directly aligned with the light emitting diode;
• at least one capacitive touch sensor printed on a second face of the light guide, each capacitive touch sensor connected to second electrical traces defining capacitive touch traces printed on the second face of the light guide;
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• a window region of the light guide defined where the at least one capacitive touch sensor is aligned with the light reflector and the light emitting diode.

A laminated light guide and component carrier, comprising:

• a light guide of a light transmissive polymeric material, the light guide having multiple pockets created in a first face;
• first electrical traces printed on the first face of the light guide;
• multiple light emitting diodes each positioned in one of the pockets and supported on the light guide by attachment legs which extend outward from each of the pockets to individually electrically connect the light emitting diodes to the first electrical traces such that the light emitting diodes are supported directly on the light guide;
• multiple light reflectors each formed as texturally modified areas of the light guide within the light guide, each positioned proximate to one of the pockets containing one of the light emitting diodes;
• a white film applied or ink printed over the first face of the light guide except where the light emitting diodes are bonded to the electrical traces, the white film enhancing light reflection of the light reflectors;
• multiple capacitive touch sensors printed on a second face of the light guide, each of the capacitive touch sensors connected to second electrical traces defining capacitive touch traces printed on the second face of the light guide;
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• a polymeric opaque film adhesively bonded to the second face over the capacitive touch sensors and the second electrical traces, wherein light generated by any of the light emitting diodes is blocked from passing through the opaque film except at individual locations of multiple indicia individually defining light transparent portions of the opaque film;
• wherein a window region is defined where each of the capacitive touch sensors is aligned with one of the light reflectors, each window region positioned in alignment with one of the indicium.