VEHICLE ILLUMINATION DEVICE

• US 20170349088A1
• Filed: 12/17/2015
• Published: 12/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: YOKOYAMA, Kazuyuki, OHASHI, Masatsugu, ARAI, Masahiro
• Application Number:
  US15/543,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20170349088A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/249 for illuminating the field of view of a sensor or camera
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/26 the devices being primarily intended to indicate the vehicle, or parts thereof, or to give signals, to other traffic
• 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: B60Q 2400/50 Projected symbol or information, e.g. onto the road or car body
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/14 Light emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/195 Details of lamp holders, terminals or connectors
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/237 rod-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/243 emitting light from one or more of its extremities
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/247 with a single light source being coupled into the light guide
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/26 Refractors, transparent cover plates, light guides or filters not provided in groups F21S43/235 - F21S43/255
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/27 Attachment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/50 characterised by aesthetic components not otherwise provided for, e.g. decorative trim, partition walls or covers
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 43/51 Attachment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 45/50 Waterproofing
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 31/03 with provision for venting for vehicle head lights F21S45/33; for vehicle rear lights F21S41/192
• CPC Class Codes: F21W 2103/60 Projection of signs from lighting devices, e.g. symbols or information being projected onto the road
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/049 giving information to passengers inside the vehicles

Abstract

In a vehicle door mirror device, a projection device projects a graphic from a graphic film. The projection device is inserted into a cap in a state in which a holding tube of the cap has been inserted into a through hole in a visor, and the holding tube is held between a peripheral face of the through hole and a protrusion portion of the projection device. The projection device is thus installed at the visor in a manner retained by the cap alone. This thereby enables easy installation of the projection device to the visor.

Claims

8. A vehicle illumination device, comprising:

an installation member that is provided at a vehicle and that includes an insertion hole;

an elastic body that is inserted into the insertion hole;

an illumination mechanism that emits light toward an outer side of the vehicle and that is installed at the installation member by elastically compressing the elastic body between the illumination mechanism and a peripheral face of the insertion hole such that the illumination mechanism is retained by the elastic body alone;

a groove that is provided at at least one of the elastic body or the illumination mechanism; and

a suppressing portion that is housed in the groove, and that is elastically compressed between the elastic body and the illumination mechanism, so as to suppress incursion of water into the illumination mechanism from between the elastic body and the illumination mechanism.

10. The vehicle illumination device of claim 8, wherein rotation of the elastic body with respect to the installation member is restricted.

11. The vehicle illumination device of claim 10, wherein a rotation position of the elastic body with respect to the installation member is selectable.

9. A vehicle illumination device comprising:

an installation member that is provided at a vehicle and that includes an insertion hole;

an elastic body that is inserted into the insertion hole;

an illumination mechanism that emits light toward an outer side of the vehicle and that is installed at the installation member by elastically compressing the elastic body between the illumination mechanism and a peripheral face of the insertion hole such that the illumination mechanism is retained by the elastic body alone; and

a suppressing portion that is disposed in the insertion hole, and that is elastically compressed between the elastic body and the illumination mechanism, so as to suppress incursion of water into the illumination mechanism from between the elastic body and the illumination mechanism.

12. The vehicle illumination device of claim 9, wherein rotation of the illumination mechanism with respect to the elastic body is locked.

13. The vehicle illumination device of claim 12, wherein a rotation position of the illumination mechanism with respect to the elastic body is selectable.