Patent Application Number: 2008243167
Filing Date: November 07, 2008Priority Date: November 07, 2007
Inventors: Neal Anthony Porter, Christian James Salmon, Zenja Solaja
Applicants: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
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An optical display comprising:
a plurality of spaced apart strands, each strand comprising;
a support element for supporting a plurality of optical fibres;
a plurality of diffuser elements on the support element, the diffusers being spaced apart along the length of the strand; and
a plurality of optical fibres supported by the support element, each of the plurality of optical fibres having a terminating end located at a respective diffuser element of the strand, wherein when light is provided to the optical fibres and propagates along the optical fibres, the light exits the terminating end of the fibres at the respective diffuser elements to thereby create an optical display.
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Description
A display panel such as an automobile instrument panel is formed ... a fiber optic ribbon which extends through the depression, which ribbon is remotely energized by a lamp to illuminate the depression. A clear plastic envelope for supporting the ribbon within the depression is assembled to the ribbon and the assembly is inserted into the slot ...
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Description
A woven fiber-optic sheet (1) has warp strands (2) formed by sheathed bundles of fine optic-fibers (4). The fibers (4) of each strand (2) are broken pseudo-randomly, different ones at different locations along its length so that light transmitted into the strands (2) from a source (7) escapes from the various locations (8) to radiate through the transparent sheathing (5). Decorative effect is intensified by periodic light-color change being a rotating multi-color filter (9) to distribute different colors to different strands (2).
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Description
A display panel that uses waveguides - the strands are placed side-by-side with a light source at the top shining down through. There are several outputs along the strand to allow the light to be produced as pixels, with acoustic energy used to control the output.
Patent/Application # 6,259,846
Description
Light-emitting fibres positioned side-by-side with outputs positioned in various positions down each strand, used to create an optical display
United States