COVERING MEMBER FOR INSTRUMENT, INSTRUMENT USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR COVERING PORTION OF INSTRUMENT TO BE COVERED

摘要

It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus concealing member capable of augmenting the concealing ability of a functional liquid crystal film and also realizing a necessary concealing ability for designs of various types of products without inducing radio-wave disturbances and the like. In an apparatus concealing member according to the present invention, a film-type information input device (4) is placed under a film-type transparent base member (3), a functional liquid crystal film (5) is placed under the information input device (4) at a position where the functional liquid crystal film (5) covers a portion to be concealed (1b) of an apparatus and can be electrically changed over between being transparent and being non-transparent, and a non-metal and film-type glossy layer (6) is placed under the functional liquid crystal film and exhibits transparency and a gloss due to reflection.