Patent ID: 9234774
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: B60K,G01D

Claim Text:
1. A lighting structure for a meter device, comprising: a dial; a rotating shaft that transmits light, the rotating shaft being provided in a back surface side of the dial and rotates by receiving a turning force or torque from a motor; a light transmitting pointer which is provided integrally with a light transmitting pointer shaft having a hole formed in a base end part into which an end part of the rotating shaft is inserted and fixed and rotates along a surface of the dial in accordance with a rotation of the rotating shaft to indicate various kinds of information; a light-blocking cap attached to a top surface of the pointer to prevent illuminating lights from leaking outside the pointer from the top surface; and a light source which outputs the illuminating lights incident on a base end part of the rotating shaft, wherein the pointer shaft includes a first laterally light-dispersing unit formed with a recessed part recessed toward the light source in an end part over the hole, the first laterally light-dispersing unit dispersing a part of the illuminating lights incident on the pointer shaft toward the dial, and the dial includes a side end face that receives the part of the illuminating lights dispersed by the first laterally light-dispersing unit.