Patent ID: 8579448

Claim:
Pointing device for an instrument cluster of a car or other vehicle, wherein the pointing device is mounted rotatable about a rotation axis, wherein the pointing device has a shaft element in the vicinity of the rotation axis, wherein the pointing device further comprises at least one light guide element in the region of the shaft element, wherein the pointing device further comprises an image forming element, wherein the image forming element and the light guide element are able to be rotated about the rotational axis with the shaft element, wherein light incident to the shaft element is directed from the at least one light guide element to the image forming element, wherein the pointing device further comprises an opaque covering element, wherein a light image is formed by light incident to the shaft element passing from the light guide element through the image forming element, wherein light incident to the shaft element is visible to a user of the instrument cluster only after the light image is formed, and projected from the pointing device, reflected by an appliqué towards the user; wherein the pointing device further comprises a focusing element, wherein the focusing element is able to be rotated about the rotational axis together with the shaft element, and wherein incident light is directed from the one of the image forming element to the focusing element before the light image is projected from the pointing device, the image forming element and the one of the light guide element are integrally formed with the shaft element and the focusing element is integrally formed with the image forming element.