Rear combination lamp for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9523475-B2
Application number	US-201414779894-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 26, 2014
Priority date	Mar 28, 2013
Publication date	Dec 20, 2016
Grant date	Dec 20, 2016

Abstract

In a rear combination lamp for a vehicle in which a tail lamp light source and a stop lamp light source are covered from the rear of the vehicle with an outer lens, the tail lamp light source and the stop lamp light source are covered with a first inner lens, and a second inner lens that is subjected to processing so as to have a lower light transmittance than that of the first inner lens and so that diffused light is formed for covering the first inner lens from the rear of the vehicle in a region in which at least the first inner lens and the tail lamp light source overlap when viewed from the rear of the vehicle while avoiding a region in which at least the first inner lens and the stop lamp light source overlap when viewed from the rear of the vehicle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rear combination lamp for a vehicle in which a tail lamp light source and a stop lamp light source disposed above the tail lamp light source are covered from the rear of the vehicle with an outer lens that is common to the light sources, wherein a first inner lens that covers from the rear of the vehicle the tail lamp light source and the stop lamp light source, the first inner lens being common to the light sources, and a second inner lens that is subjected to processing so as to have a lower light transmittance than that of the first inner lens and so as to diffuse light are disposed within the outer lens, and the second inner lens is formed so as to cover the first inner lens from the rear of the vehicle in a region in which at least the first inner lens and the tail lamp light source overlap when viewed from the rear of the vehicle while avoiding a region in which at least the first inner lens and the stop lamp light source overlap when viewed from the rear of the vehicle.

2. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a frame member that partitions from each other a stop lamp region in which light from the stop lamp light source is transmitted only by the first inner lens and goes toward the outer lens side and a tail lamp region in which light from the tail lamp light source is transmitted by the first and second inner lenses and goes toward the outer lens side is disposed within the outer lens.

3. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the second inner lens is partitioned into an upper lens portion and a lower lens portion by the frame member.

4. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a surface, on the tail lamp light source side, of the second inner lens is subjected to grained texturing.

5. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein a direction indicator region is formed on the left and right of the tail lamp region within the outer lens, the direction indicator region being partitioned from the stop lamp region and the tail lamp region by the frame member, and a direction indicator light source being disposed in each direction indicator region.

6. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the upper lens portion of the second inner lens is formed so as to follow a lower edge of the stop lamp region.

7. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 5 , wherein the lower lens portion of the second inner lens is formed into a line shape extending in a left-and-right direction, and a direction indicator formed from the direction indicator light source and the outer lens is formed into a substantially triangular shape so as to make opposite end parts of the lower lens portion close to a middle part of one side of the triangle when viewed from the rear of the vehicle.

8. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein a surface, on the tail lamp light source side, of the second inner lens is subjected to grained texturing.

9. The rear combination lamp for a vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein a surface, on the tail lamp light source side, of the second inner lens is subjected to grained texturing.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Oguchi Tsuyoshi

Classifications

• B60Q1/34

  for indicating change of drive direction (B60Q1/22 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F21S48/232

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• B60Q1/2607 Primary

  comprising at least two indicating lamps · CPC title

• F21S48/2212 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/2206

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic