GRAPHIC LUMINOUS DEVICE

• US 20190039510A1
• Filed: 01/26/2018
• Published: 02/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Maxzone Vehicle Lighting Corp. (Depo Auto Parts Industrial Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Maxzone Vehicle Lighting Corp. (Depo Auto Parts Industrial Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHEN, CHAO-CHUN, LEE, YUAN-CHENG
• Application Number:
  US15/881,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20190039510A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/325 on or for running boards or steps
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 3/00 Arrangements of steps or ladders facilitating access to or on the vehicle, e.g. running-boards construction of steps for railway vehicles B61D23/00 ; ladders E06C
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 3/002 Running boards for vehicle tops B60R3/005; at the sides of the vehicle for carrying loads B60R9/02
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/005 provided by one optical element, or plurality thereof, placed on the light output side of the light guide
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/0051 Diffusing sheet or layer
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/044 Signs, boards or panels mounted on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/049 Edge illuminated signs, boards or panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 13/08 using both translucent and non-translucent layers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles

Abstract

A graphic luminous device includes a lamp holder, a light source disposed at one side of the lamp holder, a light-guiding board disposed on the lamp holder receiving a light from the light source to guide upward, a diffusion film disposed on the light-guiding board, a shielding board and an outer housing. The diffusion film is used to uniform the light from the light-guiding board. The present disclosure utilizes the opaque second graphic segment on the outer housing and the light-penetrable first graphic segment on the shielding board to be overlapped to produce a contour luminous effect. The second graphic segment is smaller than the first graphic segment, and the second graphic segment is matched with the first graphic segment. In another way, the shielding board is formed with the first graphic segment and the second graphic segment, to produce a contour light-penetrable effect.

Claims

1. A graphic luminous device, comprising:

a lamp holder;

a light source;

a shielding board, formed with a first graphic segment;

the first graphic segment being light-penetrable, the shielding board being opaque on an outside area surrounding a contour of the first graphic segment; and

an outer housing, disposed on the shielding board and connected to the lamp holder;

wherein the outer housing is formed with a second graphic segment, the second graphic segment being opaque, the second graphic segment matching with the first graphic segment, the second graphic segment having a size smaller than that of the first graphic segment, the second graphic segment being stacked above the first graphic segment, such that a graphic-contour luminous area is formed between a contour of the second graphic segment and the contour of the first graphic segment.

2. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outer housing is light-penetrable excepting an area of the second graphic segment, and the second graphic segment is formed in a concave manner on an inner side of the outer housing.

3. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the outer housing has a concave area electroplated to form the second graphic segment opaquely.

4. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shielding board has a transparent bottom layer, and the transparent bottom layer is printed to form an opaque shielding area on a surface thereof and on an outside of the contour of the first graphic segment.

5. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first graphic segment is transparent, and the shielding board is printed opaquely to form a third graphic segment smaller than the first graphic segment, so as to form a graphic-contour luminous area into a shape of character pattern on the shielding board, wherein the third graphic segment has a character pattern substantially identical to the second graphic segment on the outer housing.

6. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a light-guiding board, the light-guiding board disposed on the lamp holder, the light source disposed at one side of the lamp holder, the light-guiding board receiving a light from the light source and guiding the light upward;

wherein a diffusion film is disposed on the light-guiding board so as to uniform the light from the light-guiding board, and the shielding board is disposed on the diffusion film.

7. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lamp holder further includes an identification part.

8. A graphic luminous device, comprising:

a lamp holder;

a light source;

a shielding board, being formed with a first graphic segment of transparent area and a second graphic segment of opaque area attached thereto, the second graphic segment being disposed at an inner side of the first graphic segment, the second graphic segment being smaller than the first graphic segment, so as to form a graphic-contour luminous area between a contour of the second graphic segment and a contour of the first graphic segment, the shielding board being opaque on an outside area surrounding the contour of the first graphic segment; and

an outer housing, being light-penetrable, disposed on the shielding board and connected to the lamp holder.

9. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the second graphic segment is made of an opaque material and attached to the first graphic segment by high-frequency welding.

10. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 8, wherein a top end of the second graphic segment is higher than an upper surface of the shielding board.

11. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the shielding board has a transparent bottom layer, and the transparent bottom layer is printed with an opaque area on a surface thereof and on an outside area surrounding the contour of the first graphic segment.

12. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 8, further comprising an inner graphic segment printed in the transparent first graphic segment, wherein the second graphic segment is attached to the inner graphic segment, the inner graphic segment having a character pattern substantially identical to a character pattern of the second graphic segment.

13. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 8, further comprising a light-guiding board, the light-guiding board disposed on the lamp holder, wherein the light source is disposed at a side of the lamp holder, the light-guiding board receiving a light from the light source and guiding the light upward, wherein a diffusion film is disposed on the light-guiding board so as to uniform the light from the light-guiding board, the shielding board disposed on the diffusion film.

14. The graphic luminous device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the lamp holder further includes an identification part.