Vehicle light-guiding body and vehicle lighting unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12504138-B2
Application number	US-202318867689-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2023
Priority date	May 31, 2022
Publication date	Dec 23, 2025
Grant date	Dec 23, 2025

Abstract

A light distribution pattern is emitted with appropriate illuminance. A vehicle light-guiding body has an incident surface; a first reflection surface; a second reflection surface; a light shielding portion; an internal reflection surface located between a front-side end part of the second reflection surface and the light shielding portion and internally reflects, to a front, a part of the light internally reflected by the second reflection surface; an emission surface; and an adjustment portion provided at a part which is a rear of the light shielding portion in the internal reflection surface and closer to one of right and left than the focal point of the second reflection surface and emits a part of the light reflected by the second reflection surface from a part different from the emission surface to an outside by internally reflecting or refracting a part of the light reflected by the second reflection surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A vehicle light-guiding body comprising:
an incident surface on which light from a light source is incident; a first reflection surface that internally reflects the light incident from the incident surface; a second reflection surface that internally reflects, to a front, at least a part of the light reflected by the first reflection surface such that the part of the light passes through a focal point and a vicinity of the focal point; a light shielding portion that shields a part of the light reflected by the second reflection surface; an internal reflection surface that is located between a front-side end part of the second reflection surface and the light shielding portion and internally reflects, to a front, a part of the light internally reflected by the second reflection surface; an emission surface that emits light internally reflected by the second reflection surface; and an adjustment portion that is provided at a part which is a rear of the light shielding portion in the internal reflection surface and closer to one of right and left than the focal point of the second reflection surface and emits a part of the light reflected by the second reflection surface from a part different from the emission surface to an outside by internally reflecting or refracting a part of the light.

2 . The vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 1 , wherein
the adjustment portion has a shape protruding outward from the internal reflection surface and includes an inclined surface inclined downward toward a rear such that a part of the light reflected by the second reflection surface is internally reflected toward a part different from the emission surface, on a front side in a front-rear direction, and a folded surface folded upward from a rear-side end part of the inclined surface and connected to the internal reflection surface on the rear side in the front-rear direction.

3 . The vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 2 , wherein
the folded surface is provided in a state of standing in an up-down direction as compared with the inclined surface.

4 . The vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 2 , wherein
the adjustment portion is formed such that an amount of projection gradually decreases from a center part in a right-left direction toward both sides.

5 . The vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 1 , wherein
the internal reflection surface has a concave portion recessed inward from the internal reflection surface at a rear of the adjustment portion.

6 . The vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 1 , wherein
the adjustment portion has a shape recessed inward from the internal reflection surface, has a refraction surface that emits a part of light reflected by the second reflection surface to an outside, on a rear side in a front-rear direction, and has a total reflection surface that totally reflects light emitted from the refraction surface, on a front side in a front-rear direction.

7 . The vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 6 , wherein
the adjustment portion is formed such that the further away the adjustment portion is separated from the focal point in the right-left direction, the further away the adjustment portion is separated from the light shielding portion in the front-rear direction.

8 . The vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 6 , wherein
the adjustment portion is formed such that the closer the adjustment portion gets to the focal point in a right-left direction, the smaller a recess amount becomes.

9 . A vehicle lighting unit, comprising:
a light source; a light-guiding body for light collection, which is the vehicle light-guiding body according to claim 1 for guiding and emitting light from the light source, that emits a light-collection pattern to a front of a vehicle; and a light-guiding body for diffusion that guides the light from the light source and emits a diffusion pattern to a front of a vehicle such that a part overlaps the light-collection pattern.

10 . The vehicle lighting unit according to claim 9 , wherein
the adjustment portion has a shape protruding outward from the internal reflection surface, has an inclined surface inclined downward toward a rear such that a part of the light reflected by the second reflection surface is internally reflected toward a part different from the emission surface, on a front side in a front-rear direction, and has a folded surface folded upward from a rear-side end part of the inclined surface and connected to the internal reflection surface, on a rear side in a front-rear direction; and the light-guiding body for diffusion is formed such that the diffusion pattern does not overlap an adjustment part by the adjustment portion in the light-collection pattern.

11 . The vehicle lighting unit according to claim 9 , wherein
the adjustment portion has a shape recessed inward from the internal reflection surface, has a refraction surface which emits a part of light reflected by the second reflection surface to an outside, on a rear side in a front-rear direction, and has a total reflection surface that totally reflects the light emitted from the refraction surface, on a front side in a front-rear direction, and the light-guiding body for diffusion is formed such that the diffusion pattern overlaps an adjustment part by the adjustment portion in the light-collection pattern.

Assignees

• Ichikoh Industries Ltd

Inventors

• Onoma Kei

Classifications

• F21S41/147

  the main emission direction of the LED being angled to the optical axis of the illuminating device · CPC title

• F21S41/295

  specially adapted to projection lenses · CPC title

• F21S41/25

  Projection lenses · CPC title

• F21S41/322 Primary

  the reflector using total internal reflection · CPC title

• F21S41/47

  Attachment thereof (achieving variable light distribution by movable screens F21S41/683) · CPC title