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US 9,302,585 B2Granted
Meter
AssigneeCalsonic Kansei Corporation
InventorYasushi Funada
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Abstract
A meter includes a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal display surface and a case housing the liquid crystal display surface, an analog meter device including a dial portion having a plurality of translucent indicators, a light source configured to illuminate the dial portion from a back side of the dial portion, and an illumination light-passing section formed in a lateral edge portion of the case, configured to pass light from the light source toward the translucent indicator.
Claims7
A meter, comprising:
- a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal display surface and a case housing the liquid crystal display surface;
- an analogue meter including a dial portion having a plurality of translucent indicators, the dial portion being arranged such that at least a part of the translucent indicators is disposed so as to overlap with a lateral edge portion of the case, and such that a part of the translucent indicators does not overlap with the lateral edge portion of the case;
- a light source configured to illuminate the translucent indicators of the dial portion, including the part of the translucent indicators which does not overlap with the lateral edge portion of the case, from a back side of the dial portion, the light source being disposed outside of the case;
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- an illumination light-passing section configured to pass light from the light source disposed outside of the case toward the part of the translucent indicators which overlaps with the lateral edge portion of the case, the illumination light-passing section being formed in the lateral edge portion of the case in a position where the part of the translucent indicators which overlaps with the lateral edge portion is directly irradiated with the light from the light source.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.