Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Light guide device
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Application No.: US14435861Application Date: 2013-09-19
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Publication No.: US09718399B2Publication Date: 2017-08-01
- Inventor: Tsuyoshi Nirei
- Applicant: CALSONIC KANSEI CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Saitama
- Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
- Current Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Saitama
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2012-228994 20121016
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/075372 WO 20130919
- International Announcement: WO2014/061394 WO 20140424
- Main IPC: B60Q3/04
- IPC: B60Q3/04 ; G01D11/28 ; B60K37/02 ; B60K35/00 ; B60Q3/14 ; F21V8/00

Abstract:
A light guide device that performs uniform brightness transmitted light illumination regardless of a distance from an incident portion is provided. Light that is emitted from a light source, and enters from an incident portion of a light guide member (light guide body) made of a translucent member formed along an outer edge portion of a decorated portion, travels in the light guide portion while repeating total reflection by an inner surface of the light guide member. In the light-guiding portion, the light is guided in the decorated portion made of a translucent member from the inside of the light guide member, and is emitted outside by being scattered by the inside of the decorated portion, and in the non-light-guiding portion, the light that travels in the light guide member is prevented from traveling in the decorated portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150291092A1 LIGHT GUIDE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-10-15
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