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Title:
MOLDED COMPONENT, OPERATION PANEL, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MOLDED COMPONENT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004086438
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a molded component forming projections on the surface of a molding in high productivity, an operation panel comprising the molded component, an electronic apparatus having the molded component, and to provide a method of manufacturing the molded component.

Characters 7 corresponding to a kind of an operation switch 17 are formed by screen printing in the vicinity of a switch opening part 6 of the operation panel 1 formed by injection molding or the like, and Braille 12 corresponding to the characters 7 is duplicately formed on the characters 7 by screen printing. By forming the Braille 12 like this, a sticking space for sticking a seal of the Braille 12 is made unnecessary, the Braille 12 can freely be arranged in a narrow space, and even if the surface 3 of the operation panel 1 is curved, unlike the Braille 12 is stuck with a tape, wrinkles are not generated when sticking, or peeling off from the periphery is prevented, and sure arrangement can be achieved.


Inventors:
FUKUNAGA YUZO
ISHIGAMI MICHIFUMI
Application Number:
JP2002245006A
Publication Date:
March 18, 2004
Filing Date:
August 26, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
BROTHER IND LTD
International Classes:
G09B21/00; B41J3/32; B41J29/00; B41M1/12; B41M1/30; B41M1/40; B41M3/16; B41M5/00; G06F3/02; H05K5/02; B41M7/00; (IPC1-7): G06F3/02; B41J3/32; B41J29/00; B41M1/12; B41M3/16; G09B21/00; H05K5/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroyuki Okamoto
Katsunori Muto