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US 2019/0337448 A1Published application
Dial gauge with chaplet tick mark illumination
AssigneeContinental Automotive Systems, Inc.
InventorsVyacheslav Birman, Kevin Michael Dyer, Tian Bai
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Abstract
A gauge assembly includes a dial face including a plurality of printed indicia. A plurality of illuminable chaplet tick marks extend through openings in the dial face. The dial face includes dark outlines around a perimeter of each of the openings for reducing a luminance of each of the chaplet tick marks. A method is also disclosed.
Claims12
A gauge assembly comprising:
- a dial face including a plurality of printed indicia, wherein each of the plurality of printed indicia is formed from a first material applied to the dial face at a first thickness;
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- a plurality of illuminable tick marks extending through openings in the dial face;
- and a dark outline formed from a second material applied to the dial face at the first thickness around at least a portion of a perimeter of at least one of the openings for reducing a luminance of a corresponding one of the plurality of tick marks, wherein the dark outline is spaced apart from the printed indicia and the second material is the same as the first material.
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