摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle instrument capable of preventing optical interference such as color mixture and light leakage among indicators with little dead space. <P>SOLUTION: The vehicle instrument having a plurality of indicating parts 2, 3, 4 to be turned on and off in different luminous colors arranged on an indicator board 5 includes a plurality of LED light sources 8, 9 capable of emitting beams of different light source colors and being separately turned on and off. The vehicle instrument further includes: generation means (a red filter, a blue filter, a blue/white converting phosphor, a blue/red converting phosphor, etc.) provided on the indicator board 5, arranged on the indicator board 5 correspondingly to the required colors of the respective indicating parts 2, 3, 4 and filtering or converting beams radiated from the respective light sources 8, 9; and a light guide path 13 for mixing beams from the light sources 8, 9 once and guiding the mixed beam to the indicating parts on the indicator board 5 separated from the light sources 8, 9. The indicating parts include a scale 2, a numerical index 3 and an ambient indicating area 4 emitting light at the time of warning indication by an indicator 35. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |