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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2008
Hideki Masuda, Niigata, JP;
Tatsuki Kawamura, Niigata, JP;
Hideki Masuda, Niigata, JP;
Tatsuki Kawamura, Niigata, JP;
Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd., Niigata, JP;
Abstract
To provide an indicator apparatus in which a pointer is secured to a pointer drive means by attraction force of magnets and it is possible to prevent an overshoot and pulsation of the pointer with sufficient attraction force. The indicator apparatus has a display plate, a pointerprovided on a front-face side of the display plate, and a pointer drive means provided on a back-face side of the display platefor rotating the pointer. The indicator apparatus includes first magnetin a ring shape provided for the pointerand a second magnetprovided for the pointer drive means to be opposite to the first magnet, and the pointeris rotated in association with rotation drive of the pointer drive means by attraction force of the first and second magnets. A yokein a ring shape is located closer to a surface of the first magnetthat is not opposite to the second magnet