INSTRUMENT-DISPLAY WITH A TRANSPARENT APPLIQUE OVER A DISPLAY

• US 20100293827A1
• Filed: 12/15/2009
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls GmbH (Adient plc)
• Inventors: Schmitz, Ingo, Alliot, Patrick, Deubzer, Andreas, Henry, Pierre, Ringenwald, Joffrey, Süss, Manfred
• Granted Patent: US 8,850,729 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 40/593
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/20 Optical features of instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/33 Illumination features
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/425 Anti-reflection arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/049 giving information to passengers inside the vehicles

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vehicle-display with a carrier-layer.

Claims

1. Vehicle-display (1) with a carrier-layer (2), that comprises graphic-elements (2.1), characterized in, that an appliqué

(3) is attached to the carrier-layer.

2. Vehicle-display (1) according to claim 1, characterized in, that the appliqué

(3) comprises a graphic-element (3.1).

3. Vehicle-display (1) according to claim 1, characterized in, that the appliqué

(3) comprises an opaque region (3.2).

4. Vehicle-display (1) according to claims 2, characterized in, that the appliqué

is transparent and the graphic-elements (3.1) and/or the opaque regions (3.2) are applied to, preferably printed and/or etched on, the appliqué

.

5. Vehicle-display (1) according to claim 1, characterized in, that the appliqué

(3) is a film.

6. Vehicle-display (1) according to claim 5, characterized in, that the film has an adhesive-layer.

7. Vehicle-display (1) according to one claim 1, characterized in, that the appliqué

(3) is congruent with the carrier-layer (2).