Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Two gauge illumination with one light guide
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Application No.: US14711945Application Date: 2015-05-14
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Publication No.: US10025017B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Vyacheslav B Birman , Cristian Leonard Fitz
- Applicant: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Priority: EP15465502 20150211
- Main IPC: F21V8/00
- IPC: F21V8/00 ; G01D11/28 ; B60Q3/66 ; B60Q3/14

Abstract:
A light guide assembly for illuminating two gauges utilizing a single light guide includes of a two pairs of light sources such as LEDs, OLED's, quantum dots or other useful light sources functioning to emit light in opposite directions. A light guide receives the light emitted by the LEDs and leaks light out of its open surfaces. A protrusion from the light guide which leaks light in a specific orientation depending on its geometry illuminates a second gauge. An opaque gauge which covers the main portion of the light guide and is located above the light guide.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160229337A1 TWO GAUGE ILLUMINATION WITH ONE LIGHT GUIDE Public/Granted day:2016-08-11
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