Turn lamp for door mirror

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9487133-B2
Application number	US-201214007789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2012
Priority date	Mar 30, 2011
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

Abstract

A turn lamp to be mounted on a door mirror of a vehicle, the turn lamp includes a housing; a light source; and a substrate having a feeder circuit for the light source, wherein: the substrate is placed in the housing such that a plane direction of the substrate faces a horizontal direction when the door mirror is mounted to a vehicle body, and the light source is placed on the substrate such that an irradiation direction of the light source is parallel to the plane direction of the substrate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A turn lamp formed in an elongated shape in a right-left direction and to be mounted on a door mirror of a vehicle, the turn lamp comprising:
a housing;
a light source; and
a substrate having a feeder circuit for the light source and a light source placement part on which the light source is placed, wherein:
the substrate is placed in the housing such that a plane direction of an upper surface of the light source placement part of the substrate is parallel to a horizontal plane direction when the door mirror is mounted to a vehicle body,
the light source is placed on the upper surface of the light source placement part such that an irradiation direction of the light source is parallel to the plane direction of the upper surface of the light source placement part,
the housing includes:
an outer lens;
a base housing integrated with the outer lens that covers an outer side of the base housing and is exposed to an outer surface of the door mirror; and
an inner housing placed between the base housing and the outer lens,

the inner housing is provided with a light guide fit part which is to be fitted with a light guide for radiating light emitted from the light source and is formed in an elongated shape in the right-left direction between an upper side and a lower side of the inner housing,
a notch part is formed at an outside in the right-left direction of the light guide fit part so that a standing piece standing from the lower side of the inner housing is formed at an outer lens side end part, and
the light source placement part of the substrate is built in the notch part in a positioned manner so that the upper surface of the light source placement part is flush with an upper surface of the standing piece at the notch part.

2. The turn lamp according to claim 1 , wherein the light source includes a regulation light source and a decorative light source that are placed on the same substrate.

3. The turn lamp according to claim 1 , wherein a front side end part of the light source placement part contacts with a back side end part of the standing piece of the inner housing so that the light source placement part is built in the notch part in a positioned manner.

4. The turn lamp according to claim 2 , wherein irradiation directions of the regulation light source and the decorative light source are not the same.

5. The turn lamp according to claim 2 , wherein the regulation light source includes two regulation light sources.

Assignees

• Kawaji Yasushi
• Suzuki Akifumi
• Mitsuba Corp

Inventors

• Kawaji Yasushi
• Suzuki Akifumi

Classifications

• B60Q1/2665

  on rear-view mirrors (lighting devices for vehicle interior on or for rear-view mirrors B60Q3/258) · CPC title

• B60Q1/38

  using immovably-mounted light sources, e.g. fixed flashing lamps · CPC title

• B60R1/06 Primary

  mounted on vehicle exterior {(B60R1/025, B60R1/08 take precedence)} · CPC title

• B60R1/1207

  with lamps; with turn indicators · CPC title

• G02B6/0068

  Arrangements of plural sources, e.g. multi-colour light sources · CPC title