Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ring-shaped light-conducting apparatus with uniform luminance
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Application No.: US14435215Application Date: 2013-10-10
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Publication No.: US09618676B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Katsutoshi Sakanashi , Tomoya Une , Hirokazu Kandori
- Applicant: KOJIMA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-Shi
- Assignee: KOJIMA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: KOJIMA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-Shi
- Agency: Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP
- Priority: JP2012-227635 20121015
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/077572 WO 20131010
- International Announcement: WO2014/061541 WO 20140424
- Main IPC: F21V7/04
- IPC: F21V7/04 ; F21V8/00 ; B60Q3/00 ; B60Q3/02 ; B60N3/10 ; B60K37/02

Abstract:
A light-conducting apparatus includes a light source, a light-conducting member and a light-reflecting structure. The light-conducting member includes a ring-shaped portion, a light-receiving surface and a radially outwardly bulged portion. The ring-shaped portion extends continuously over an entire circumference of the ring-shaped portion in a circumferential direction of the ring-shaped portion. The light-receiving surface causes light from the light source to enter the light-conducting member through the light-receiving surface. The radially outwardly bulged portion is bulged radially outwardly from the ring-shaped portion and causes the light having entered the light-conducting member through the light-receiving surface to enter the ring-shaped portion in one direction in the circumferential direction of the ring-shaped portion. The light-reflecting structure reflects a portion of the light having entered the light-conducting member through the light-receiving surface and causes the reflected light to enter the ring-shaped portion in a direction opposite to the one direction in the circumferential direction of the ring-shaped portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150253481A1 LIGHT-CONDUCTING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-09-10
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