MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514034716 A) filed by Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd., Aichi, Japan, on April 9, for 'vehicle exterior component.'
Inventor(s) include Kenta Matsushima; Yukari Ito; and Hiroaki Ando.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A vehicle exterior component includes a housing having an opening, a light source disposed in the housing, and a cover that covers the opening of the housing. The cover includes a transparent base layer capable of transmitting light from the light source, and a color-developing layer that is stacked on the transparent base layer in a thickness direction. The color-developing layer includes an exterior color layer and a color adjustment layer that exhibit different colors from each other. The color adjustment layer is located closer to the light source than the exterior color layer is. When white light is transmitted through the color adjustment layer and the exterior color layer, the color adjustment layer maintains white color of the white light."
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