Vehicle lighting unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9328889-B2
Application number	US-201414259364-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2014
Priority date	Apr 25, 2013
Publication date	May 3, 2016
Grant date	May 3, 2016

Abstract

A vehicle lighting unit can include at least one optical module including: first and second light sources; first and second optical member configured to control light from the first and second light sources, respectively; and an outer peripheral optical member configured to surround the first optical member. The first optical member can include an incident surface, and front and rear surfaces and receive light from the first light source through the incident surface and reflect the light by part of the front surface and then part of the rear surface to project the reflected light through part of the front surface. The second optical member is configured to guide the light from the second light source to the outer peripheral optical member so that the light exits through the outer peripheral optical member, and the second light source, and the second optical member are disposed behind the first optical member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle lighting unit comprising
at least one optical module comprising
a first light source having a first semiconductor light emitting element;
a second light source having a second semiconductor light emitting element;
a first optical member configured to control light from the first light source;
a second optical member configured to control light from the second light source; and
an outer peripheral optical member configured to surround the f…

Assignees

• Stanley Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• Anzai Toshimichi

Classifications

• F21S45/48

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S41/151

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S41/192

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• B60Q2400/30

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• F21S41/663

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic