Mui Lab, Inc.

Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.

Nobuyasu Hirobe

Takanori Yamamoto

Kazunori Oki

Fumiaki Shibayama

Shinji Horii

Makoto Nomura

Yasuhide Fukada

Shigeru Hinoshita

Kumiko Yoshikawa

The present invention provides a product with an operation display panel incorporated therein, which naturally harmonizes with the environment to not create visual noise for a user and allow the user to operate the operation display panel intuitively while feeling a natural material. A thin layer, made of a natural wood, natural fiber, natural leather, or natural stone, or a resin, synthetic fiber, synthetic leather or artificial stone created by imitating the appearance and touch of a natural material, is provided on the peripheral surface of a housing so that the thin layer covers at least the entire front surface of a display panel. A touch sensor incorporated comes in contact with the front surface of the panel. The thickness of the thin layer and the luminance of the panel are designed to allow the user to view the content displayed on the panel.

Product with incorporated operation display panel

Decorated molded article creating a three-dimensional appearance is provided. A decorated molded articlehas a transparent layerarranged on the front side thereof. A projection layeris arranged partly on the front side of the transparent resin layer. A screen layeris formed on the back side of the transparent layer. An image projected from the projection layeris produced on the screen layer. When the decorated molded articleis observed from obliquely above, the projection layerand an imageare visually recognized simultaneously. Therefore, the projection layeris recognized as if it were three-dimensional.

Decorated molded article and method for producing the same

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Kyoto, Japan

Nobuyasu Hirobe