Vehicle light and vehicle equipped with vehicle light

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9725030-B2
Application number	US-201615049540-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 22, 2016
Priority date	Aug 26, 2013
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle light installed in a vehicle includes: a main case having a front opening; a first light guide disposed in the main case; a first light source that emits light into the first light guide; and a headlamp disposed in the main case. The first light guide (i) is rod-shaped, (ii) includes a first extended section extending from the inboard side of the first light guide relative to the vehicle widthwise direction toward the outboard side and a second extended section that continues from the first extended section, curves back inwardly, and extends to the inboard side, and (iii) opens toward a longitudinal center line of the vehicle. The headlamp is disposed between the first extended section and the second extended section. The first extended section and the second extended section extend toward the longitudinal center line of the vehicle to a point beyond the headlamp.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle light installed in a vehicle, the vehicle light comprising:
a main case having a front opening;
a first light guide disposed in the main case;
a first light source that emits light into the first light guide; and
a headlamp disposed in the main case,
wherein the first light guide (i) is rod-shaped, (ii) includes a first extended section extending from an inboard side of the first light guide relative to a widthwise direction of the vehicle toward an outboard side of the first light guide relative to the widthwise direction of the vehicle and a second extended section that continues from the first extended section, curves back inwardly, and extends to the inboard side, and (iii) opens toward a longitudinal center line of the vehicle,
the headlamp is disposed between the first extended section and the second extended section, and
inboard ends of the first extended section and the second extended section relative to the widthwise direction of the vehicle are located closer to the longitudinal center line of the vehicle than an inboard end of the headlamp relative to the widthwise direction of the vehicle, and
in a front view, the headlamp does not overlap with the first extended section and the second extended section.

2. A vehicle light installed in a vehicle, the vehicle light comprising:
a main case having a front opening;
a first light guide disposed in the main case;
a first light source that emits light into the first light guide; and
a headlamp disposed in the main case,
a second light guide disposed in the main case; and
a second light source that emits light into the second light guide,
wherein the first light guide (i) is rod-shaped, (ii) includes a first extended section extending from an inboard side of the first light guide relative to a widthwise direction of the vehicle toward an outboard side of the first light guide relative to the widthwise direction of the vehicle and a second extended section that continues from the first extended section, curves back inwardly, and extends to the inboard side, and (iii) opens toward a longitudinal center line of the vehicle,
the headlamp is disposed between the first extended section and the second extended section,
the first extended section and the second extended section extend toward the longitudinal center line of the vehicle to a point beyond the headlamp,
the second light guide is plate-shaped and disposed, at least in part, between the first extended section and the second extended section, and
the headlamp is disposed between (i) one of the first extended section and the second extended section and (ii) the second light guide.

3. The vehicle light according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second light guide includes, on one of a front surface and a rear surface, a textured portion for emitting, to the front surface side, light guided by the second light guide.

4. The vehicle light according to claim 3 ,
wherein a region defined by the textured portion is a design that represents turn signal information when the second light source emits light.

5. The vehicle light according to claim 2 ,
wherein the second light guide is disposed so as to pass one of in front of and behind a portion of the first light guide that curves back.

6. The vehicle light according to claim 1 ,
wherein, the first light guide is configured of a single component; and
the first light source is disposed facing an end surface of an inboard end of the first light guide.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ogata Tomoyuki
• Nakano Tomoyuki
• Shirakawa Yasufumi
• Aoki Hiro
• Tanaka Toshifumi
• Nishida Yuki
• Masuda Kazuki

Classifications

• B60Q1/0058

  Stacked, i.e. one lamp located behind the other in the optical axis direction · CPC title

• F21S48/2268

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• B60Q1/0052

  concentric · CPC title

• F21S48/2287

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F21S48/2243

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic