Patent ID: 7191730

Claim:
A displaying instrument comprising: a dial plate on which marks indicating values between a lowest value and a highest value are arranged in a form of an arc and having a through-hole at a center of the arc of the marks; a movement arranged in a rear of the dial plate and having a pointer shaft; and a luminous pointer held with an end of the pointer via the through-hole and driven by the movement, wherein the luminous pointer rotates along the marks and points to an appropriate mark, the luminous pointer has a boss that is held with the end of the pointer shaft and a pointer body that is made of light guiding material and held with the end of the pointer shaft via the boss, the boss houses a plurality of light sources and a light emitting circuit that drives the light sources, the light emitting circuit drives the light sources to emit light, the light emitted from the light sources are guided toward a tip of the pointer body and outputted to an outside of the pointer body through a surface of the pointer body such that the surface is illuminated, the surface being a light emitting area, and the pointer body has a plurality of subsections such that the light emitting area is sectioned in a boss-to-tip direction and the subsections are illuminated at different timing by the respective light sources.