Lamp for vehicles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10006602-B2
Application number	US-201414891486-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2014
Priority date	May 17, 2013
Publication date	Jun 26, 2018
Grant date	Jun 26, 2018

Abstract

The present invention comprises a semiconductor-type light source, a lens, a lens holder, and a heat sink member. Positioning sections are provided in the lens and the lens holder, respectively. The positioning section in the lens holder comprises a pressing section and a positioning surface. The positioning section in the lens comprises a protrusion-receiving section and a positioning protrusion section. As a result, the present invention is capable of accurately positioning the lens, relative to the lens holder, in the standard optical axis direction of the lens.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lamp for vehicles, comprising:
a light source;
a lens to emit light from the light source to an outside;
a lens holder to hold the lens; and
a mounting member to which the light source and the lens holder are mounted,
wherein, at the lens and the lens holder, positioning sections to position the lens in a reference optical axis direction of the lens are respectively provided,
wherein the positioning sections of the lens holder each comprises:
a pressing section to press the lens in the reference optical axis direction by a pressing force caused by elastic restoration of the pressing section; and
a positioning surface which is orthogonal to or substantially orthogonal to a z-axis direction of the reference optical axis direction and opposite to the pressing section, the pressing section and the positioning surface being arranged to sandwich the positioning sections of the lens therebetween in the reference optical axis direction due to the pressing force, and
wherein the positioning sections of the lens each comprise:
a receiving section to receive the pressing force of the pressing section when the positioning section of the lens is sandwiched between the pressing section and the positioning surface; and
a positioning abutment section provided oppositely to the receiving section to abut against the positioning surface by way of the pressing force that the receiving section receives when the positioning sections of the lens is sandwiched between the pressing section and the positioning surface.

2. The lamp for vehicles, according to claim 1 ,
wherein the lens comprises: a lens section; and a flange section which is provided at a peripheral edge part of the lens section,
wherein the lens holder comprises:
a holding cylindrical section; and
a holding edge part which is provided inside the cylindrical section from an end of the holding cylindrical section, and includes an opening section in which the lens section is disposed at a center part,
wherein the pressing section is provided on an inner circumferential face of the holding cylindrical section,
wherein the positioning surface is provided on an inner circumferential face of the holding edge part so as to oppose to the pressing section,
wherein the positioning abutment section is provided on a surface which opposes the positioning surface, of the flange section,
wherein the receiving section is provided on a surface which opposes the pressing section, of the flange section, and in a range in which the pressing force of the pressing section is conveyed to the positioning abutment section.

3. The lamp for vehicles, according to claim 2 ,
wherein the receiving section is provided at an edge side of the flange section with respect to the positioning abutment section.

4. The lamp for vehicles, according to claim 2 ,
wherein the positioning abutment section forms a shape of a protrusion section to abut against the positioning surface on a minute plane, and
wherein the receiving section forms a shape of a protrusion section to receive the pressing force of the pressing section in a linear shape or in a substantially linear shape along an edge of the flange section.

5. A lamp for vehicles, comprising:
a light source;
a lens to emit light from the light source to an outside;
a lens holder to hold the lens; and
a mounting member to which the light source and the lens holder are mounted,
wherein, at the lens and the lens holder, a positioning section to determine a position of the lens and a gap narrowing section to narrow a gap of the positioning section are respectively provided,
wherein the gap narrowing section comprises:
a receiving surface which is provided at the lens; and
a protrusion which is provided at the lens holder to come into contact with the receiving surface, and
wherein an opening section is provided at the lens holder adjacently to the protrusion so that the protrusion is of a doubly-supported beam structure having elasticity, the ends of the protrusion are connected respectively to a cylindrical section and an edge part of the lens holder, and is arranged to come into the elastic contact with the receiving surface to narrow the gap of the positioning section.

6. The lamp for vehicles, according to claim 5 ,
wherein the positioning section comprises an XY-positioning section and a rotation positioning section, and
wherein the gap narrowing section has at least one set of the receiving surface and the protrusion, and is disposed inside with respect to the XY-positioning section and the rotation positioning section.

7. The lamp for vehicles, according to claim 5 ,
wherein the positioning section is provided at a respective one of a lower part of the lens and a lower part of the lens holder, and
wherein the gap narrowing section is provided at a respective one of an upper part of the lens and an upper part of the lens holder.

Assignees

• Ichikoh Industries Ltd

Inventors

• Abe Toshiya

Classifications

• F21S48/1258 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21Y2115/10

  Light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• F21S48/1216

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/1104

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/1154

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic