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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2002
Applicants:
Yoshiyuki Furuya, Shizuoka, JP;
Takanori Watanabe, Shizuoka, JP;
Ichiro Kataoka, Shizuoka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 11/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An instrument for a vehicle, by which an instrument board thereof can be seen as well at night as in the daytime is provided. In the instrument, an illuminating panelincluding a prism sheettransforms light from an LEDinto planar light illumination for the instrument boardthe prism sheeton which prisms arranged in a sawtooth shape to form a prism alley P at a vehicle driver side thereof.