Illumination – Illuminated scale or dial – Edge illuminated modifier or light rod/pipe
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-26
2006-12-26
Alavi, Ali (Department: 2875)
Illumination
Illuminated scale or dial
Edge illuminated modifier or light rod/pipe
C362S030000, C362S027000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07152987
ABSTRACT:
An instrument for a vehicle, by which an instrument board thereof can be seen as well at night as in the daytime is provided. In the instrument, an illuminating panel50including a prism sheet50atransforms light from an LED50binto planar light illumination for the instrument board40,the prism sheet50aon which prisms arranged in a sawtooth shape to form a prism alley P at a vehicle driver side thereof.
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Furuya Yoshiyuki
Kataoka Ichiro
Watanabe Takanori
Alavi Ali
Armstrong Kratz Quintos Hanson & Brooks, LLP
Sawhney Hargobind S.
Yazaki -Corporation
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