Patent ID: 6217182
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: B60Q,G11B,H04B

Abstract:
An electronic device (1) having a backlit display (7) and a receptacle (38) for a removable information carrying medium, comprising at least two light sources (12), and a light diffuser (2) moulded in a translucent plastic material, characterized in that the diffuser (2) has a display backlight portion (201) and a receptacle indicator portion (202), said light source (12) being arranged to illuminate the display backlight portion (201) to provide a diffuse backlight (8) for the display (7), and to shine light through the translucent material of the receptacle indicator portion (202) to indicate (46) an entrance (39) to the receptacle (38), the diffuse back illumination (8) of the display (7) being provided by light incident upon and scattered away from the translucent material of the display portion (201), the display portion (201) having a linear array of light sources (12) disposed along an edge (14) of the display portion (201), the backlight surface (8) being concave in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the linear array (12).