Automotive meter

Details Automotive meter Automotive meter

1990-07-18

1991-07-16

Fields, Carolyn E.

Radiant energy

Luminophor irradiation

With ultraviolet source

40543, 368226, G09F 1320

Patent

active

050327119

ABSTRACT:
An automotive meter comprising a meter case, a dial plate fixedly disposed within the meter case, indicating needles provided in front of the dial plate, meter units respectively for driving the indicating needles according to measured values, and an ultraviolet lamp for irradiating the front surface of the dial plate by ultraviolet rays. The dial plate is formed by printing a grid layer on the backside of a transparent base plate with an ultraviolet ink, printing a ground layer on the grid layer with an ultraviolet ink, and printing dial patterns including graduations and characters on the front surface of the base plate with an ultravviolet ink. When the dial plate is irradiated by ultraviolet rays emitted by the ultraviolet lamp in the nighttime, the shadows of the dial patterns are cast on the interface between the base plate and the grid layer, the grid layer and the ground layer become luminous in similar colors and the dial patterns become luminous in a color different from those of the grid layer and the ground layer. The shadows of the dial patterns emphasizes the appearance of tridimensionality of the dial patterns.

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patent: 4875433 (1989-10-01), Tsukamoto
patent: 4970400 (1990-11-01), Muramatsu

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