Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Yusuke Ueshima

Yoshinori Masatsugu

Takayuki Kamiya

Provided is technology that enables a lighting device to luminously display a clear sign. A display panelof a lighting devicehas a layered structure including a transparent base layer, a decorative layerhaving a general decorative portionand a display decorative portion, and a blocking layerhaving a general blocking portionand a display blocking portion. A blocking outer-edge portionwhich is at least a part of an outer edge of the display blocking portionis located on a radially outer side relative to a paired decorative outer-edge portion

Lighting device and display panel

A vehicle interior panel has a front surface as a design surface. The vehicle interior panel includes a base material being in a plate-shape and having optical transparency, a decorative layer provided on a first surface of the base material and having optical transparency, the first surface being a surface on the front surface side, and a pattern portion provided on a second surface of the base material and having a pattern that is displayed on the front surface by emission of light from a side opposite to the front surface. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The pattern portion includes a gradation portion in which light transmittance continuously changes in a planar direction. A gradation pattern is displayed on the front surface by emission of light from the side opposite to the front surface to the gradation portion.

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Kiyosu, Japan

Yusuke Ueshima