Patent ID: 9507163
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: B32B,B44F,B60Q,B60R,F16B,G02B

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle comprising: a vehicle body having an external surface and an interior space therein; a transparent panel having an outside surface extending along the external surface of the vehicle body and an inside surface that is facing the interior space in the vehicle body; and an exterior member having at least one side end that is adjacent to the transparent panel and an outside surface that extends along the external surface of the vehicle body so as to constitute substantially one portion of a vehicle exterior surface along with the transparent panel, the exterior member comprising: a light transmissive layer located at a vehicle external surface side of the exterior member; and an image-printed layer that is located at a vehicle inner side of the light transmissive layer and that is in contact with the light transmissive layer, the image-printed layer comprising: a printed image layer that is formed of a pixel pattern in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged; and a light condenser layer that is light transmissive, that is located between the light transmissive layer and the printed image layer and that is formed of a light condenser element pattern in which a plurality of light condenser elements are two-dimensionally arranged, wherein the pixel pattern of the printed image layer and the light condenser element pattern of the light condenser layer are printed in such a formation that, when the exterior member is viewed from outside the vehicle, a virtual image of the pixel pattern appears on an inner side than an actual location of the pixel pattern of the printed image layer.