Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lighting device for vehicle
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Application No.: US15087376Application Date: 2016-03-31
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Publication No.: US09834138B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Atsushi Asada , Masanori Sekiya , Naomi Omura
- Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi-ken
- Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi-ken
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2015-106361 20150526
- Main IPC: B60Q3/02
- IPC: B60Q3/02 ; B60Q3/64 ; B60Q3/217 ; B60Q3/78 ; F21V8/00 ; B60Q3/62 ; G02B6/42

Abstract:
A lighting device mounted on a vehicular interior part includes a light source having a light exit surface, an elongated light guide member having a light entrance surface opposite the light exit surface of the light source and through which light from the light source enters, and a light exit surface through which the light exits, the elongated light guide member including an elongated core member having an end surface that is the light entrance surface, and a cover member covering an outer peripheral surface of the elongated core member, and the lighting device further includes a positioning member positioning the light entrance surface of the elongated light guide member with respect to the light source, and including a contact portion that is in contact with an outer peripheral edge portion of the end surface of the elongated core member and is not in contact with the cover member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160347244A1 LIGHTING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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