Continental Automotive Systems Us, Inc.

Steven Selby

Vyacheslav B Birman

Qiling Yu

An example vehicle instrument panel includes a control panel having illuminated buttons formed with an illuminatable decorative surface. The disclosed decorative surface includes a translucent layer disposed between a background layer and a graphic layer. Material is removed from the background layer to reveal the underlying translucent and graphic layers. The depth within which material is removed is determined to fall within a thickness of the translucent layer such that any variation in depth is accommodated within the translucent layer.

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Madison, AL, United States of America

Steven Selby