Outside mirror with blinker light for vehicles

• US 20040004841A1
• Filed: 04/07/2003
• Published: 01/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lang-Mekra North America LLC
• Original Assignee: Lang-Mekra North America LLC
• Inventors: Lang, Heinrich, Seiboth, Wolfgang, Hecht, Georg
• Granted Patent: US 7,025,486 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/494
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2665 on rear-view mirrors lighting devices for vehicle interior on or for rear-view mirrors B60Q3/258
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/80 Light emitting diode

Abstract

A light assembly for a vehicle mirror is provided. The light assembly in one aspect has a light directing arrangement attached to a transparent pane, which directs a light beam into a specified zone, controls a color of the light beam and controls an intensity of the light. In another aspect, a pane is provided having similar attributes and a water drain and drip edge.

Claims

1. A blinker light for motor vehicles, especially for commercial vehicles, which is placed in a housing (2) of an outside mirror of a motor vehicle and which encompasses at least one source of illumination (3) which can radiate light and one transparent pane (4), which transmits light of one defined wave length, there in characterized, in that the blinker light (1), in addition to the above, possesses a light directional means (5;

6;

7).

2. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with claim 1, therein characterized in that the light directive means (5) consists of a plurality of parallel, vertical, opaque strips (5a, 5b) on the inner and outer sides of the transparent pane (4), which are so offset to one another, that the light beams of the source of illumination can emerge only in a specified angular zone (8).

3. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with claim 1, therein characterized in that the light directive means (6) has an opaque area, which, of itself, has a light transmitting area (6a), the horizontal cross-section of which is so designed, that the light beams of the illumination source can emerge in only one specified angular zone (8).

4. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with claim 1, therein characterized in that the light directive means (7) exhibits in a horizontal cross-section prismatically shaped partial areas (7a) which include the transparent pane (4), and which are so designed, that the light beams from the illumination source can only emerge in one specified angular zone (8).

5. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with claim 1, therein characterized in that the light directive means is so designed in a holographic manner, that the light beams from the source of illumination can emerge only in one specified angular zone 8.

6. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with at least one of the claims 2 to 5, therein characterized, in that the specified angular zone (8) in its horizontal extent, includes a angular zone from 5°

to 60°

, measured in the mathematical positive manner from the direction of travel as reference.

7. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with at least one of the foregoing Claims, therein characterized in that at least one means of illumination is so aligned, that its principal direction of radiation represents essentially the bisector of the specified angular zone.

8. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with at least one of the foregoing Claims, therein characterized in that the source of illumination is a LED, a fluorescent tube, and/or an incandescent bulb.

9. A blinker light for motor vehicles in accord with at least one of the foregoing Claims, therein characterized in that the pane at least partially peripherally grips the outer edge of the housing and encompasses a vertical water drain (9) and a horizontal drip edge (10).