Automobile instrument
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsRiyuuichi Hashimoto, Masanobu Terao, Takayuki Ogawa
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Abstract
An automobile instrument (1) includes: a dial (4); an indicator (11) configured to rotate on the dial (4); a facing member (14) configured to surround a circumference of the dial (4) and comprising a plurality of transparent light guide portions (35) radially arranged respectively from an end of the circumference of the dial (4) at intervals in a circumferential direction of the dial (4); a first light source (17) configured to irradiate the dial (4) with light; and a second light source (19) configured to emit light to the transparent light guide portions (35).
Claims7
An automobile instrument comprising:
- a dial;
- an indicator configured to rotate on the dial;
- a facing member surrounding a circumference of the dial and comprising a plurality of transparent light guide portions radially arranged respectively from an end of the circumference of the dial at intervals in a circumferential direction of the dial;
- a first light source configured to irradiate the dial with light;
- and
- a second light source configured to emit light to the transparent light guide portions,
- wherein the dial comprises:
- a flat plate portion extended toward a circumferential side from a center section of the automobile instrument and having characters formed on an outer periphery thereof, and
- a slant portion downwardly slanted at the circumferential side of the flat plate portion, and
- wherein the indicator has a top end section extending to arrive at the transparent light guide portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.