Instrument-display with a transparent appliqué over a display

• US 8,850,729 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2009
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Sss, Manfred, Ringenwald, Joffrey, Henry, Pierre, Alliot, Patrick, Deubzer, Andreas, Schmitz, Ingo
• Primary Examiner(s): Silbermann, Joanne
• Application Number:
  US12/638,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20100293827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,757 Days
• Field of Search: 406/38, 405/94
• 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: B60K 37/20 Dashboard panels
• 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. A vehicle-display comprising:

a carrier-layer that comprises graphic-elements for the vehicle-display,

wherein the carrier-layer comprises an etched portion that constitutes at least one of the graphic-elements; and

an appliqué

attached to the carrier-layer,

wherein the appliqué

comprises a first etched portion that constitutes first graphic-elements for the vehicle-display,

wherein the at least one of the graphic-elements of the carrier-layer or the first graphic-elements of the appliqué

is a scale,

wherein the first graphic-elements of the appliqué

are a supplement to the graphic-elements of the carrier layer,

wherein the appliqué

further comprises an opaque region,

wherein the appliqué

is transparent and the opaque region is applied to the appliqué

,

wherein the appliqué

is congruent with the carrier-layer,

wherein the appliqué

is a film, and

wherein the film has an adhesive-layer.

2. The vehicle-display according to claim 1, wherein the appliqué

further comprises a second etched portion that constitutes the opaque region.

3. The vehicle-display according to claim 1, wherein the appliqué

further comprises a printed portion that constitutes the opaque region.

4. The vehicle-display according to claim 1, wherein the appliqué

is transparent and further comprises a printed portion that constitutes second graphic-elements for the vehicle-display.