Patent ID: 9452709
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: B60Q,G01D,G02B

Claim Text:
1. An instrument cluster for a vehicle comprising: at least one ultra-violet light-emitting L.E.D; a translucent panel having first and second opposing sides, the first side facing said at least one ultra-violet light-emitting L.E.D., the second side of the translucent panel facing an observer and facing away from said at least one ultra-violet light-emitting L.E.D., said translucent panel and its first side being spatially separated from the ultra-violet light-emitting L.E.D; and a base layer disposed onto the first side of said translucent panel such that the base layer is between said first side of the translucent panel and said at least one ultra-violet light-emitting L.E.D; wherein said base layer comprises a crystalline-structure powder layer operable to generate visible light from ultra-violet light that impinges on said powder layer from the at least one ultra-violet light-emitting L.E.D.; and wherein the translucent panel is sized, shaped and arranged to keep ultra-violet light that is emitted from the ultra-violet light-emitting L.E.D. from impinging on the second side of the translucent panel, such that none of the ultra-violet light impinges on the second side of the translucent panel.