Vehicular lamp

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9512974-B2
Application number	US-201213610453-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 11, 2012
Priority date	Sep 26, 2011
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A vehicular lamp ( 1 ) including a lamp easing ( 4 ) formed by a lamp housing ( 2 ) having an opening ( 2 a ) on at least one side and a cover ( 3 ) attached to the lamp housing and closing the opening, and a tight source unit ( 6 ) disposed in the lamp casing and having a light source ( 8 ) that emits light, wherein the light source unit has a wiring board ( 7 ) that has a first surface ( 9 a ) and a second surface ( 10 a ) which face different directions and an electronic part that is mounted at least on the first surface and includes the light source, and a holding protrusion ( 11 ) that holds the electronic part is provided on the first surface of the wiring board.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicular lamp comprising:
a lamp casing formed by a lamp housing having an opening on at least one side thereof and a cover attached to the lamp housing and closing the opening; and
a light source unit disposed in the lamp casing and having
a wiring board having a first surface and a second surface which face different directions, and
a light source mounted on the first surface,

a holding protrusion that holds the light source is provided on the first surface of the wiring board, and
the holding protrusion is in surface contact with a side surface of the light source,
wherein the light source is connected to the wiring board via solders, and
wherein the solders are located so as to be separated from each other in a direction perpendicular to a direction along which the light source and the holding protrusion are provided next to each other.

2. The vehicular lamp according to claim 1 , wherein
the light source is a semiconductor light emitting element, and
a height of the holding protrusion from the first surface is lower than that of the semiconductor light emitting element from the first surface.

3. The vehicular lamp according to claim 1 , wherein when mounted on the first surface, the light source is set at a position where the light source is pressed against the holding protrusion by gravity.

4. The vehicular lamp according to claim 1 , wherein the wiring board is a molded interconnection device.

5. The vehicular lamp according to claim 1 , wherein an optical part of the vehicular lamp is used as the holding protrusion.

6. The vehicular lamp according to claim 1 , wherein
the wiring board is a molded interconnection device,
the light source is a semiconductor light emitting element,
the light source, when mounted on the first surface, is set at a position where the light source is pressed against the holding protrusion by gravity,
a height of the holding protrusion from the first surface is lower than that of the semiconductor light emitting element from the first surface, and
an optical part of the vehicular lamp is used as the holding protrusion.

7. The vehicular lamp according to claim 1 , wherein the holding protrusion is formed integrally with a base portion of the wiring board.

8. The vehicular lamp according to claim 1 , wherein the wiring board has a stepped configuration including a plurality of steps therein, wherein the first surface and second surface form the sides of each step in the plurality, and wherein a light source is mounted the first surface of each step in the plurality.

Assignees

• Otsubo Takayuki
• Koito Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Otsubo Takayuki

Classifications

• F21W2107/10

  for land vehicles · CPC title

• F21Y2115/10

  Light-emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• F21S43/14 Primary

  Light emitting diodes [LED] · CPC title

• F21S43/19 Primary

  Attachment of light sources or lamp holders · CPC title

• F21S48/215

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic