Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Illuminated indicator and method of manufacturing the illuminated indicator
- Patent Title (中): 照明指示灯和制造照明指示灯的方法
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Application No.: US11448131Application Date: 2006-06-07
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Publication No.: US07960013B2Publication Date: 2011-06-14
- Inventor: Junichi Kira , Yoshinobu Yokoyama , Shosaku Watarai
- Applicant: Junichi Kira , Yoshinobu Yokoyama , Shosaku Watarai
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi-ken
- Agency: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole P.C.
- Priority: JP2006-025386 20060202
- Main IPC: G01D11/28
- IPC: G01D11/28

Abstract:
An illuminated indicator and a method of manufacturing the illuminated indicator that can make black the color of an indicator mark formed by irradiation with laser light are provided. In a shift position indicator panel, part of a light-blocking coating material layer and a design coating material layer is removed by irradiation with laser light, and part of an indicator coating material layer, which is created as a result of coating materials of three primary colors being mixed together, is exposed, whereby an indicator mark is formed. As long as the mixed coating material configuring the indicator coating material layer is made black by toning resulting from mixing coating materials of three primary colors, the color of the indicator mark also becomes black.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070177369A1 Illuminated indicator and method of manufacturing the illuminated indicator Public/Granted day:2007-08-02
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