×

Vehicular lighting apparatus

  • US 10,100,995 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2014
  • Issued: 10/16/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A vehicular lighting apparatus attachable to a front end part of a vehicle, comprising:

  • a planar light-emitting unit that emits illumination light;

    a light guide element made of a translucent resin, a length or the light guide element parallel to an emission direction of the illumination light being shorter than a length of the light guide element perpendicular to the emission direction of the illumination light, the light guide element including at least an incident side face and an emission side face;

    an optical system that transforms planar light from the light-emitting unit into non-circular light and that causes the non-circular light to be incident on the incident side face of the light guide element; and

    a lens is formed on the incident side face of the light guide element on which the transformed non-circular light is incident, the lens condenses the transformed non-circular light, wherein the light condensed by the lens is emitted, onto a road surface in front of the vehicle, from the emission side face opposite to the incident side face of the light guide element, and the fight-emitting unit emits white light including red light.

View all claims
  • 4 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×