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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2010
Jonathan M. Frens, Hudsonville, MI (US);
Jonathan M. Frens, Hudsonville, MI (US);
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Holland, MI (US);
Abstract
Instrument cluster and pointing device for a car or other vehicle, the pointing device being mounted rotatable about a rotation axis and having a shaft element in the vicinity of the rotation axis, the pointing device further comprising at least one of a light guide element or a mirror element in the region of the shaft element and comprising one of an image forming element or an aperture, wherein the one of the image forming element or the aperture and the one of the light guide element or the mirror element are able to be rotated about the rotational axis with the shaft element, and wherein light incident to the shaft element is directed from the one of the light guide element or the mirror element to the image forming element or aperture and projecting to a visible surface.