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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7798091 | Meter device and vehicle A meter device for a vehicle with enhanced visibility that is easily discriminated from other meter devices. A speedometer includes a meter panel having an indication surface that indicates a running speed, and a finger moving in an area above the meter panel. A lig... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7743726 | Indication instrument An indication instrument with improved illumination efficiency. The indication instrument has an indication panel (100), an indication plate (200) on which index parts (201) are disposed along the outer periphery of the indication panel (100 | 06/29/2010 |
| 7357095 | Transparent edge-lighted instrument cluster An instrument cluster that is mountable on a top surface of a vehicle dashboard is disclosed. The instrument cluster includes a transparent dial that has indicia engraved thereon. A plurality of light emitting diodes are positioned in a center portion of the transpa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7305932 | Pointer instrument with a double pointer A pointer instrument has two instrument mechanisms arranged independently of one another on a printed circuit board such that the printed circuit board in between the two instrument mechanisms. Each of the instrument mechanisms act on an associated pointer. To minim... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303319 | Headlight lens for a motor vehicle headlight The present invention relates to a headlight lens for a vehicle headlight having a light source, in particular for a motor vehicle headlight, as well as a vehicle headlight, in particular a motor vehicle headlight, having a light source and a headlight lens. The hea... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7275497 | Floating three-dimensional instrument panel dial structure A viewed component of a vehicle instrument cluster includes a housing and a first dial structure. The first dial structure includes an outer boundary presenting a first radial portion supported by the housing and a face portion presenting a second radial portion off... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7207117 | Gauge with floodlighting, light ring, and hubless pointer A gauge of a vehicle instrument cluster includes a dial having indicia thereon. A pointer is rotatably mounted in the instrument cluster and movable to a plurality of positions relative to the dial. A light source is disposed in the gauge and adapted to direct light... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7152987 | Instrument for vehicle 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 panel 50 including a prism sheet 50a transforms light from an LED 50b ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6990922 | Indication system of meter part This invention is to offer an indication system and method of a meter part having excellent visibility and designing property. Alight is irradiated from the first light source toward the indicating panel from the side of the indicating face for making the background... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6904866 | Indicator An indicator having a character plate capable of making indicative characters emit light is provided, wherein a metal character plate 30 is provided with cut-out portions 30a being cut out along the peripheries of respective indicative character... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6827034 | Illuminated dial and pointer display An illuminated dial and pointer assembly wherein a movable pointer is illuminated with a tracking external directed light source as the pointer moves relative to a display dial. A plurality of systems are disclosed for moving said pointer and illuminating said point... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6682201 | Dial A dial for an indicating instrument, in particular in a motor vehicle. The dial comprises an optically conducting basic body whose outside is shaped as a two-stage cone. Except for light passages (10) forming symbols, the outside is covered by an opaque l... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6565223 | Integrated light transfer structure for providing halo and end illumination for a control switch assembly An illuminated control assembly which comprises a light guide having a an outer illumination section and an end illumination section. The assembly also comprises at least one outer light conducting leg and at least one end light conducting leg. Each leg h... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6267072 | Indicating instrument An indicating instrument includes a generally straight illumination lamp or cold cathode fluorescent lamp and a light conducting plate which are disposed on the back of a dial plate. The dial plate has plurality of trans-illuminous gauge or meter patterns... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6149279 | Indicating instrument for vehicle A straight cold cathode fluorescent lamp is detachably held at the back of a dial plate by a plurality of fork-shaped holders to illuminate a plurality of scales formed on the front surface of the dial plate and accommodated in the reflector which is also... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6070549 | Pointer type indicating device A pointer type indicator having a structure in which internal mechanisms and illuminating light sources are directly connected to an optical guide plate through the medium of a circuit board, and is capable of brightly illuminating pointers and indexes. T... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5938311 | Half mirror display device for instruments with improved illumination system A figure defining system (39, 43, 46, 57) defines a first figure as a pointer (43) on a background plate (39) and a second figure as a character plate (46) with characters and divisions, a figure illuminating system (39a, 43a, 47, 49, 55a, 51, 53) include... | 08/17/1999 |
| 4903171 | Panel lighting A panel for illuminating an object such as an instrument in at least one aperture therein while minimizing the amount of light directly transmitted toward the front of the panel. A portion of the panel is integrally formed of light transmitting material w... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4807090 | Instrument illumination system An instrument with an illumination ring that edge-lights an opaque dial face with increased light flow by augmenting the conductivity of both the light receiving portion of the ring and a bevel for deflecting light laterally across the face. The increased... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4704984 | Display device A display device for the displaying of two measured values on a graduated dial 1 which has two scales 4 and 5 arranged concentrically to each other. Two pointers 6 and 7 are turnable around pointer shafts 8 and 9 which are coaxial to each other and each o... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4274078 | Mirror assembly with indicator An assembly is provided which includes a mirror body for holding a mirror and at least one container for holding an indicator. The container includes a window portion under an opening formed in the mirror body within which the mirror is disposed. The mirr... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4233927 | Instrument assembly with illuminated meter mounting panel A meter mounting panel having an opening through which a dial board of a meter is exposed is made of a transparent material and has a light reflecting surface formed thereon. An edge of the panel is located in the vicinity of a light source so that the li... | 11/18/1980 |
