| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 362230190 | Internal light source | 12 |
| 20130010452 | INSTRUMENT ILLUMINATION DEVICE - Disclosed is an instrument illumination device enabling homogeneous illumination light in a broad area, without increasing the number of light sources, and thereby enhancing the freedom degree of the ornamental designing process. An instrument housing includes a bottom face having LEDs disposed thereon and an illumination area including a main illumination area having a main dial for displaying a revolution on the dial plate covering a front opening and an auxiliary illumination area having an auxiliary dial for displaying water temperature. The main illumination area is in the shape of a ring having a cut-out at a lower part thereof, and the auxiliary illumination area fills the cut-out connecting the main illumination area. Illumination light from the LEDs illuminates an entire face of the illumination area in the ring shape from a rear side thereof as backlight. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130094175 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a first light guide member provided with a first reflecting surface formed at its first end to reflect light emitted by a light source; a second light guide member provided with a penetrating hole in which the first light guide member is intended to be inserted and a second reflecting surface formed at its first end to reflect the light; a first pointer and a second pointer fixed to the first end of the first light guide member and the first end of the second light guide member to be illuminated by the light reflected by the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface, respectively, and a driving member configured to separately rotate the first light guide member and the second light guide member around a same rotation axis with the first pointer and the second pointer, respectively. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130100638 | Side Cured Light-Transmissive Display System - An invisible, light-transmissive display system with a light resistant material is provided. The light resistant material has a first side and a second side. Substantially invisible holes penetrate between the first surface and the second surface in a predetermined light-transmissive display pattern. The second surface is exposed to a side curing light that is substantially parallel to the second surface at the invisible holes thereadjacent. A light-conducting curable filler is applied into the invisible holes from the first surface. Surfaces of the light-conducting curable filler are cured in the invisible holes at the second surface with the side curing light. The remaining curable filler in the invisible holes is cured. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130114240 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprises a first light source that emits light, a background panel including a translucent portion to which light emitted from the first light source is entered and from which transmitted light is existed, the translucent portion provided in at least a portion of the background panel; and a dial including a transparent portion to which at least a portion of the transmitted light existed from the translucent portion is entered, the transparent portion provided in at least a portion of the dial. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130215595 | INDICATOR FOR VEHICLE TRANSMISSION SHIFT OPERATING DEVICE, AND VEHICLE TRANSMISSION SHIFT OPERATING DEVICE - The indicator comprises: a light-emitting member capable of emitting light, wherein the light-emitting member has a segment with a shape corresponding to an outline of a gate groove; a face panel disposed in opposed relation to the light-emitting member, and adapted, during the light-emitting of the light-emitting member, to allow light having the shape corresponding to the outline of the gate groove to be transmitted therethrough; and a cover member disposed just above the face panel, and formed with an opening which surrounds a position where the light transmitted through the face panel appears on an outer surface of the face panel. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20140111964 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ILLUMINATING DISPLAY PANELS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An example electronic device includes a printed circuit board having a first row of light sources coupled to a first surface of the printed circuit board and a second row of light sources coupled to a second surface of the printed circuit board; a panel having a plurality of visual indicators; an first housing having a first row of chambers each having a first opening to receive one of the first row of light sources and a second opening to communicate light from the one of the first row of light sources to one of the visual indicators; and a second housing having a second row of chambers each having a third opening to receive one of the second row of light sources and a fourth opening to communicate light from the one of the second row of light sources to a second one of the visual indicators. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20150299931 | LAUNDRY TREATMENT APPARATUS - A laundry treatment apparatus is described. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a rotary control. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a lighting surface that includes a plurality of first parts that have a first translucence, where a first set of the first parts that are located at lower positions of the circumference have shorter arc lengths than a second set of the first parts that are located at upper positions of the circumference. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20160096570 | BICYCLE CONTROL LEVER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING IT - A bicycle control lever includes a luminous indicator arranged between an inner half-shell and an outer half-shell, and the outer half-shell has at least one transparent region at the luminous indicator. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160121787 | INSTRUMENT CLUSTER INCLUDING TELLTALE ILLUMINATION - An instrumentation gauge for a vehicle includes a single piece light guide divided into multiple sections by an opaque light guide insert. The single piece light guide includes at least one telltale graphic printed on a surface of the light guide in each of the light guide sections. When light is communicated into a given section of the light guide, the light scatters on the telltale graphic causing the graphic to be illuminated and distinguishable from a same or similar colored background. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160121788 | INSTRUMENT CLUSTER INCLUDING TELLTALE ILLUMINATION - An instrumentation gauge for a vehicle includes a single piece light guide divided into multiple sections by an opaque light guide insert. The single piece light guide includes at least one telltale graphic printed on a surface of the light guide in each of the light guide sections. When light is communicated into a given section of the light guide, the light scatters on the telltale graphic causing the graphic to be illuminated and distinguishable from a same or similar colored background. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160169489 | VISUAL INDICATING DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
| 362230200 | Indirect illumination | 1 |
| 20140063778 | POINTER OF AN INSTRUMENT DRIVEN WITH A SHAFTLESS STEPPER MOTOR CONTAINING A LIGHTING MECHANISM FOR LIGHTING THE POINTER - A system includes a layer, a shaftless stepper motor, a lighting element, an input magnet, an output magnet, and a pointer. The layer includes first and second opposed sides. The shaftless stepper motor is disposed on the first opposed side of the layer. The lighting element is disposed on the first opposed side of the layer. The input magnet is disposed on the first opposed side of the layer and is connected to the shaftless stepper motor. The output magnet is disposed on the second opposed side of the layer. The pointer is connected to the output magnet. The input magnet connected to the shaftless stepper motor moves, through magnetism, the output magnet and the connected pointer, and the lighting element transmits lights to light the pointer. | 03-06-2014 |
