MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514082881 A) filed by Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd., Aichi, Japan, on Sept. 1, 2025, for 'light transmissive panel for vehicle.'
Inventor(s) include Hiroko Shibakawa; Koji Okumura; Takayasu Ido; Kazuki Takao; Yasuhisa Kumamoto; Yuhki Kuramitsu; Keisuke Higuchi; and Masaki Okada.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A light transmissive panel for a vehicle includes base and a decorative layer. The base is disposed at a side of the light transmissive panel at which a design surface is provided. The base is transmissive to visible light. The decorative layer is stacked on a surface of the base body on a side opposite to the design surface. The light transmissive panel includes multiple apertures formed through the decorative layer in a thickness direction. Each aperture has a bottom surface formed by the base. The bottom surface has irregularities. The apertures are filled with filling portions, which are transmissive to visible light. The base and the filling portions are each formed of a plastic material with which the difference in refractive index between the base and the filling portions is less than the difference in refractive index between the base and air."
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