Pointer having a curved Reflective Surface
View Patent ↗A pointer comprises an attached portion and a main body. The attached portion is attached to an instrument. The main body is fixed to the attached portion at a basic portion thereof and extending toward a free portion thereof. The main body has a reflective surface and a foil-stamping layer. The reflective surface is formed at an inclined surface of the basic portion and inclined to a traveling direction of light entering the main body. The foil-stamping layer is formed on a bottom surface of the main body and diffusely reflects light reflected by the reflective surface. The reflective surface is curved like a collective convex lens in a transverse direction of the inclined surface and a diffusive concave lens in a vertical direction of the inclined surface.
1. A pointer, comprising:
an attached portion attached to an instrument;
a main body fixed to the attached portion at a basic portion and extending toward a free portion thereof, the main body having a reflective surface formed on an inclined side of the basic portion, a light diffusion surface formed on a bottom surface of the main body which diffusely reflects the light reflected by the reflective surface, and a sub-reflective surface opposed to the reflective surface which reflects a portion of the light reflected by the reflective surface toward an area of the light diffusion surface; and
a protrusion portion formed at an upper end of the basic portion of the main body,
wherein the reflective surface has a curved shape of a collective convex lens in a transverse direction of a side surface of the main body and a curved shape of a diffusive concave lens in a vertical direction of the side surface of the main body, and
wherein one side of the protrusion portion forms an upper end of the reflective surface.
2. The pointer according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a protrusion portion connected to the basic portion, the protrusion portion having a first side surface forming one end of the reflective surface and a second side surface forming a sub-reflective surface which reflects a portion of the light reflected by the reflective surface toward one area of the light diffusion surface located in a vicinity of the basic portion.
3. The pointer according to claim 1 , wherein the main body has an entrance surface formed on a bottom surface of the basic portion, and the light emitted from a light source enters the main body through the entrance surface.
4. The pointer according to claim 1 , wherein a curvature of the collective convex lens is constant.
5. The pointer according to claim 1 , wherein a curvature of the collective convex lens successively changes.
6. The pointer according to claim 1 , wherein the light diffusion surface is formed by a foil-stamping layer.
7. The pointer according to claim 1 , wherein the light diffusion surface is formed by a coinjection molding process.