Patent ID: 6561123
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: B60K,B60Q,G01D,G01P

Abstract:
A pointer instrument, comprising two pointer shafts which are each driveable by a separate pointer drive and each having a pointer, and two scales which are arranged concentrically with respect to one another and are each coordinated to one of said pointers, wherein one of the pointer shafts (8) is arranged eccentrically with respect to the two concentric scales (1, 2), and the pointer coordinated to the eccentric pointer shaft (8) is an optical pointer (6) which has a lightguide (7), which is arranged radially on the eccentric pointer shaft (8) and rotatable with the pointer shaft (8), the optical pointer (6) also having a lightguide system (10) which is formed from fixed lightguides (11, 11b), the fixed lightguides (11, 11b) of which each start at a small distance from a movement path of a free end of the rotatable lightguide (7) and lead to display segments (5) on the concentric scale (2), which is coordinated to said optical pointer (6).