Lamp for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10557612-B2
Application number	US-201715824402-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2017
Priority date	Sep 28, 2016
Publication date	Feb 11, 2020
Grant date	Feb 11, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a vehicular lamp including a lamp housing, a bracket installed on one side of the lamp housing, and a lamp attachable to and detachable from the bracket to be fastened. Here, the lamp includes a light source module, a guide portion to which the light source module is slidably coupled, and a socket portion installed inside the guide portion and to which the light source module is slidably coupled to establish electrical conduction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicular lamp comprising:
a lamp housing;
a bracket installed on one side of the lamp housing; and
a lamp attachable to and detachable from the bracket so as to be capable of being fastened,
wherein the lamp comprises:
a light source module;
a guide portion to which the light source module is slidably coupled; and
a socket portion installed within the guide portion and to which the light source module is slidably coupled to allow electrical conduction,

wherein the light source module comprises:
a substrate on which a circuit is printed; and
one or more light emitting diode (LED) light sources arranged on at least one surface of the substrate,

wherein terminals, which come into contact with and are gripped by the socket portion, are formed on one end of the substrate, and
wherein a first holding groove snap-fit-coupled to the socket portion and a second holding groove snap-fit-coupled to the guide portion are formed on at least one of both sides of the substrate.

2. The vehicular lamp of claim 1 , wherein the guide portion comprises:
a first guide and a second guide arranged on both sides with a slit therebetween; and
a body portion connected to the first guide and the second guide as one body, wherein one or more held protrusions are formed on the first guide and the second guide to protrude to face each other with the slit therebetween and to be snap-fit-coupled to the second holding grooves of the substrate.

3. The vehicular lamp of claim 2 , wherein the socket portion comprises:
grip pieces which grip the terminals of the substrate and provide a conduction function;
connection terminals to which one end of a wire connected to a vehicular battery is connected; and
first and second sockets at each of which a held piece is formed for being snap-fit-coupled to the first holding groove of the substrate.

4. The vehicular lamp of claim 3 , wherein through holes are formed at a circumferential surface of the body portion to expose the connection terminals of the socket portion to exterior.

5. The vehicular lamp of claim 2 , wherein an opening hole through which light emitted by the LED light source passes, is formed at one surface of at least one of the first guide and the second guide, and
a lens for diffusing the light emitted by the LED light source is disposed in the opening hole.

6. The vehicular lamp of claim 2 , wherein one or more fastening protrusions are formed on a circumferential surface of the body portion, and
wherein an inner circumferential surface of the bracket comprises:
lead grooves for leading the fastening protrusions;
accommodation grooves for accommodating the fastening protrusions when the fastening protrusions are rotated; and
restriction pieces for restricting the fastening protrusions from being separated in an insertion direction while the fastening protrusions are accommodated in the accommodation grooves.

7. The vehicular lamp of claim 1 , further comprising an optic lens which diffuses the light of the light source module and is slidably coupled to the guide portion.

8. The vehicular lamp of claim 7 , wherein the optic lens comprises:
protrusions held by and coupled to the holding grooves of the guide portion; and
through holes for allowing elastic displacement of the protrusions.

9. The vehicular lamp of claim 7 , wherein the optic lens includes light extenders which are bent from and extend from edges of the optic lens toward the light source module and guide the light of the light source module so that the light is emitted across an extended range.

10. The vehicular lamp according to any one of the preceding claims, further comprising an outer lens for allowing light emitted by the light source module to be transmitted outward.

Assignees

• Sl Corp

Inventors

• Lee Choon Woo
• Kang Doo Woon

Classifications

• F21S43/26

  Refractors, transparent cover plates, light guides or filters not provided in groups F21S43/235 - F21S43/255 · CPC title

• F21K9/69

  Details of refractors forming part of the light source · CPC title

• F21S43/14

  Light emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• F21V19/0045

  by tongue and groove connections, e.g. dovetail interlocking means fixed by sliding · CPC title

• F21Y2115/10

  Light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title