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EP1525597B9
EP1525597B9 EP03783933A EP03783933A EP1525597B9 EP 1525597 B9 EP1525597 B9 EP 1525597B9 EP 03783933 A EP03783933 A EP 03783933A EP 03783933 A EP03783933 A EP 03783933A EP 1525597 B9 EP1525597 B9 EP 1525597B9
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H9/00—Details of switching devices, not covered by groups H01H1/00 - H01H7/00
    • H01H9/18—Distinguishing marks on switches, e.g. for indicating switch location in the dark; Adaptation of switches to receive distinguishing marks
    • H01H9/182—Illumination of the symbols or distinguishing marks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H9/00—Details of switching devices, not covered by groups H01H1/00 - H01H7/00
    • H01H9/18—Distinguishing marks on switches, e.g. for indicating switch location in the dark; Adaptation of switches to receive distinguishing marks
    • H01H9/182—Illumination of the symbols or distinguishing marks
    • H01H2009/183—Provisions for enhancing the contrast between the illuminated symbol and the background or between juxtaposed symbols
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H11/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of electric switches
    • H01H2011/0081—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of electric switches using double shot moulding, e.g. for forming elastomeric sealing elements on form stable casing

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  • the invention relates to an illuminable workpiece according to the preamble of patent claim 1 and a method for producing such a workpiece according to the preamble of patent claim 5.
  • control switches are used, especially in the form of control panels in the dashboard, in the center console or in the car door. These switches can be designed to be illuminated, wherein the actuating member for the electrical switch then represents an example of such an illuminable workpiece.
  • an illuminable actuator for an electrical switch with a surface arranged on the visible surface, which may be a function icon, a function display o. The like. Act. By means of the function symbol, the user is shown the respective function to be operated by the switch. At the same time, the function icon may serve as a kind of search light for the user to use can find and operate electrical switch even in the dark.
  • the function display is used to visualize the user to the state of the function to be operated.
  • the actuator may also have a plurality of adjacently arranged areas each having a viewing surface, for example, both an area with a function icon and a range with a function display, these areas are designed independently illuminated.
  • the illuminable region consists of a material which is at least partially transparent to visible light.
  • the surface of this region may be provided by means of a substantially nontransparent visible light coating, such as a lacquer, such that only the visible surface is left exposed.
  • an illuminable actuator for a switch assembly in which the over-radiation between two separately illuminated areas to be prevented.
  • a black frame part separates the actuating element from the one illuminable area, which consists of a graphic display on a crystal-clear inner part, from the other illuminable area, which consists of a window serving as a functional display. Further information on the production of such an actuator are not given in this document.
  • the invention is based on the object, the illuminable workpiece, which is in particular the actuator of an electrical switch, and in which the Oberstrahlung of light in the adjacent adjacent illuminable areas is largely attenuated to further develop. In particular, the overexposure should not be visible to the user.
  • the actuator according to the invention or any other, according to the invention formed workpiece at least one illuminable area is surrounded by a visible light substantially non-transparent material.
  • This further region of essentially nontransparent material borders the two adjacent illuminable areas largely from each other.
  • an over-radiation of light between the two illuminable areas is effectively prevented by this wider area.
  • this illuminable area serves as a function indicator for the functional lighting of the actuating element, then an embodiment of the area in the form of a lens lends itself, whereby the user can be particularly clearly visualized the respective state of the switch.
  • this illuminable area consists of a crystal-clear material.
  • it can be a crystal clear plastic.
  • the other illuminable area should contain a function symbol for the search illumination for the actuator, the use of an opaque material for the function symbol lends itself.
  • this may consist of a milky plastic.
  • the entire illuminable area can be made of the opaque material and coated with an opaque lacquer.
  • the visible surface for the function symbol is left exposed or recessed in the coating accordingly.
  • the surface of the illuminable area coated with paint over the entire surface and the visible surface for the function symbol then by thermal processing of the paint, for example by means of laser beams, are produced.
  • a dark colored material as a substantially non-transparent material for the wider area.
  • it may be a dark plastic.
  • a plastic actuator according to the invention actuator or other workpiece is preferably carried out by injection molding of the plastic in a corresponding tool.
  • a plastic which is in particular a crystal-clear plastic
  • the dark plastic for overmolding one illuminable area substantially simultaneously with the plastic, which is in particular a milky plastic is injected into the tool for the other illuminable area.
  • a high-quality cohesive connection is achieved between the wider area and the illuminable areas.
  • a flow restriction for the two plastics injected by the coinjection method can be arranged in the tool so that an undesired flow of the dark plastic into the illuminable area is precluded
  • a type of three-component wet-on-wet tool is suitably used as a tool for the production of the actuator according to the invention or other workpiece.
  • three different plastics are injected simultaneously into the mold so that the plastics have not yet completely cooled.
  • the three plastics combine in the mutually adjacent regions during injection materially.
  • the actuator or the workpiece consists of several components, this is then substantially in one piece and has a homogeneous appearance for the user.
  • the advantages achieved by the invention are in particular that an undesirable over-radiation of the light is avoided by the one illuminable area in the other illuminable area. At least such overshoot is reduced to an unrecognizable to the user level.
  • an actuator for an electrical switch the blooming between the search and the function lighting can be excluded.
  • the invention is Actuator or workpiece in a simple manner and inexpensive to manufacture.
  • Fig. 1 is closer to see a control panel 1 for a motor vehicle, which is arranged for example in the dashboard, in the center console, in the car door o. The like.
  • the control panel 1 has a housing 2 in which a plurality of illuminable electrical switches 3 are located.
  • the switches 3 are used for example for switching on and off the seat heating, cooling and ventilation, the rear window heating, the blower o.
  • Functions in the vehicle As an example, the switch 3 arranged on the left should be considered closer.
  • the switch has 3 module-like switching elements 14, which are mounted in the housing 2 on a printed circuit board 15.
  • an actuator 5 for the switch 3 is presently formed in the manner of a rocker and by means of in Fig. 3 indicated bearing pin 4 movable to switch the switching elements 14 during manual movement of the actuator 5 by the user.
  • the actuator 5 is illuminated by means arranged in the housing 2 illuminant 16 from the inside.
  • the illuminable workpiece formed in accordance with the invention is thus the actuating member 5 for the electrical switch 3, which will be explained in more detail below.
  • Fig. 1 shown function symbol 7, 7 ', which represents the triggered by the switch 3 function graphically, in the present case, the seat heating and seat cooling or the Wegbelüflung symbolizes.
  • Theterrorismsssysmbol 7, 7 ' serves as search lighting for the user.
  • a function display 8 which indicates to the user as functional lighting that the seat heating and / or the seat ventilation is turned on.
  • the function symbol 7, 7 'and the function display 8 are located as visible surfaces on two adjacently arranged regions 10, 11 of the surface 6, which are independently and thus separately illuminated.
  • the illuminable area 10, 11 consists at least on the visible surface of a visible light at least partially transparent and thus transparent material.
  • the surface of the illuminable area 10 is as indicated by Fig. 4 is indicated, by means of a substantially non-transparent to visible light and thus opaque coating 9, which may be, for example, a paint, provided such that only the visible surface for the function symbol 7,7 'is released.
  • At least the one illuminable area, in the present case the area 11, is one in Fig. 5 visible wider area 12, which consists of visible light substantially non-transparent and thus opaque material, so surrounded that the two adjacent illuminable areas 10,11 are delimited from each other by the substantially non-transparent material. This becomes effective Mutual influence on the lighting of function symbol 7, 7 'and function display 8 avoided.
  • the illuminable area 11 is made of a crystal-clear material, in particular made of transparent plastic.
  • the plastic may be crystal clear macrolone.
  • the illuminable area 11 is configured in the form of an optical lens. Again Fig. 4 or 5 can be removed, are several such lenses, in the present case four lenses corresponding to the area 11 of the opaque further area 12 enclosed.
  • the entire area 11 thus represents the illuminable viewing area for the function display 8, wherein due to the lens shape of the area 11, the function display 8 is particularly clearly visible to the user.
  • the other illuminable area 10 consists of an opaque material, in particular of a milky plastic.
  • the plastic may be white or light gray colored macrolone.
  • the illuminable area 10 is coated with an opaque lacquer 9, for example in black, silver o. The like. Color.
  • the visible surface according to the function symbol 7, 7 ' is released so as to allow the passage of light for the illumination of the function symbol 7, 7' through the opaque material.
  • the surface of the illuminable region 10 can first be coated over its entire surface with varnish 9. Subsequently, the visible surface for the function symbol 7, 7 'is produced by appropriate thermal processing of the paint 9 by means of laser beams.
  • the substantially non-transparent material in the region 12, which serves to delineate the two regions 10 and 11, consists of a dark-colored material, in particular of a dark plastic.
  • the plastic may be black colored Makrolon.
  • the edge thus serves as a flow restriction 13 or as a sperm seam for the dark plastic, in order to avoid "fraying" or "flowing" of the dark plastic into the milky plastic.
  • the edge thus ensures clearly defined areas 10 and 11 and 12, so that no visible to the user brightness differences in the illumination of the function symbols 7, 7 'occur.
  • the actuator 5 is made of plastic, so that this is produced by injection molding of the plastic in a not further shown tool.
  • the glass-clear plastic 17 for the one illuminable area 11 is injected into the tool.
  • the particular dark plastic 18 for encapsulating the one illuminable region 11 is injected through the wider region 12 substantially simultaneously with the particular milky plastic 19 for the other illuminable region 10 in the tool substantially simultaneously with the coinjection process means in that the milky plastic 19 is injected approximately 0.6 to 0.7 seconds after the dark plastic 18, in order to ensure a good cohesive connection between the dark plastic 18 and the milky plastic 19.
  • the tool for the production of the actuator 5 is a kind of three-component wet-on-wet tool.
  • the three different plastics 17, 18, 19 are injected for the areas 10,11,12 simultaneously in the tool. The injection takes place so that the plastics 17, 18, 19 are not yet completely cooled. As a result, the three plastics 17, 18, 19 connect to one another at the mutually adjacent and adjacent regions during injection molding materially.
  • the actuator 5 is in a motor vehicle control panel.
  • an actuator 5 can also be used in a single electrical switch 20, as in Fig. 7 you can see.
  • the switch 20 has a switch housing 21, on the underside of which electrical connections 22 protrude.
  • the electrical connections 22 provide the electrical connection to a switch housing 21, not shown further contact system ago, which is switched by means of pivotable on bearing pin 4 actuator 5 by the user.
  • a function icon 7 and a function display 8 On the user-side surface 6 of the actuator 5 is again a function icon 7 and a function display 8.
  • the function icon 7 and the function display 8, which are illuminated by a light source 16 are arranged on two adjacent areas 10, 11.
  • the two areas 10, 11 are delimited from one another in the manner according to the invention by the further area 12 indicated by dashed lines, which is made of opaque material, thus avoiding mutual influencing of the respective illumination for the function symbol 7 and for the function display 8.
  • the invention is not limited to the described and illustrated embodiments. Rather, it also encompasses all expert developments within the scope of the invention defined by the claims.
  • the invention can not only be used for actuators on electrical switches, but can also for other illuminable workpieces, such as function indicators on control units, controls on control units, housing parts of electrical appliances o. The like., Use.

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Claims (6)

  1. Composant pouvant être éclairé, en particulier organe de commande (5) pour un interrupteur électrique (3, 20), ayant au moins deux zones (10, 11) pouvant être éclairées indépendamment à proximité l'une de l'autre et comportant des surfaces visibles, comme un symbole de fonction (7, 7'), un affichage de fonction (8) ou analogue, les zones pouvant être éclairées (10, 11) se composant au moins sur leur surface visible d'une matière au moins partiellement transparente dans la lumière visible, dont au moins une première zone pouvant être éclairée (11) est entourée par une autre zone (12) composée d'une matière essentiellement opaque à la lumière visible, et dont l'autre zone pouvant être éclairée (10) est si nécessaire pourvue d'un revêtement (9) essentiellement opaque à la lumière visible, comme une laque, de telle façon que seule la surface visible de cette zone soit laissée libre, alors que les deux zones voisines pouvant être éclairées (10, 11) sont délimitées l'une par rapport à l'autre par la matière essentiellement opaque de l'autre zone (12),
    caractérisé en ce que
    la matière de l'autre zone (12) essentiellement opaque à la lumière visible est injectée dans un outil par un procédé de type co-injection pratiquement en même temps que la matière de l'autre zone pouvant être éclairée (10) pour former une liaison en continuité de matière entre l'autre zone (12) et l'autre zone pouvant être éclairée (10).
  2. Composant pouvant être éclairé selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la première zone pouvant être éclairée (11) se compose d'une matière transparente, par exemple de plastique transparent (17), et la zone pouvant être éclairée (11) est de préférence en forme d'une lentille, en particulier pour un affichage de fonction (8).
  3. Composant pouvant être éclairé selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'autre zone pouvant être éclairée (10) se compose d'une matière opaque, en particulier d'un plastique lactescent (19), la zone pouvant être éclairée (10) est de préférence revêtue avec une laque opaque (9) pour laisser libre une surface visible, en particulier pour un symbole de fonction (7, 7'), et la surface supérieure (6) de la zone pouvant être éclairée (10) est en outre revêtue de préférence entièrement avec la laque (9) alors que la surface visible est ensuite produite par un traitement thermique de la laque (9) avec des rayons laser.
  4. Composant pouvant être éclairé selon la revendication 1, 2 ou 3,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la matière essentiellement opaque se compose d'une matière sombre, par exemple d'un plastique à coloration sombre (18), et la délimitation de la matière essentiellement opaque de l'autre zone (12) par rapport à la matière au moins partiellement transparente de la zone pouvant être éclairée voisine (10) est réalisée à la manière d'une limitation floue en forme d'arête (13) pour la matière sombre.
  5. Procédé de fabrication de la pièce selon la revendication 1 par coulée par injection de plastique dans un outil, selon lequel la matière au moins partiellement transparente à la lumière visible pour la première zone pouvant être éclairée (11) se compose notamment de plastique transparent (17), la matière au moins partiellement transparente pour la lumière visible de l'autre zone pouvant être éclairée (10) se compose notamment de plastique lactescent (19), la matière essentiellement opaque à la lumière visible se compose notamment d'un plastique à coloration sombre (18),
    caractérisé en ce qu'
    on injecte dans l'outil d'abord le plastique transparent (17) pour la zone pouvant être éclairée (11), et on injecte ensuite dans l'outil, par un procédé de type co-injection, le plastique sombre (18) pour l'injection par surmoulage de la première zone pouvant être éclairée (11) sensiblement en même temps que le plastique lactescent (19) pour l'autre zone pouvant être éclairée (10), en disposant dans l'outil de préférence une limitation floue (13) pour les deux plastiques (18, 19) injectés par le procédé de co-injection.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'outil est une sorte d'outil à trois composants humide sur humide, dans lequel on injecte simultanément dans l'outil trois plastiques distincts les uns des autres (17, 18, 19), on ne refroidit pas complètement les plastiques (17, 18, 19), les trois plastiques (17, 18, 19) se joignant les uns aux autres en continuité de matière dans les zones voisines ou contiguës (10, 11, 12).
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