Automobile roof grip and light

• US 7,104,675 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2004
• Issued: 09/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chang-Hua Chen
• Original Assignee: Chang-Hua Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Chang-Hua
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Shea, Sandra
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ton, Anabel
• Application Number:
  US10/990,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20060104072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 362/490, 362/493, 362/488, 296/125, 164/44
• US Class Current: 362/490
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/267 Door handles; Hand grips

Abstract

An automobile roof grip and light includes a grip body and a light. The grip body has an elongate chamber in an intermediate portion, an elongate chamber hole formed in an inner sidewall, and a hole bored in one end of the chamber. An elongate cap closes on the chamber hole. The light device is deposited in the chamber, consisting of an elongate circuit board and plural LED on the circuit board. Then the grip and light can be used both as a grip and a light to be lit up for increasing brightness and also usable as a warning of showing a door being not yet closed.

Claims

1. An automobile roof grip and light comprising:

a grip body (2) made of a transparent material and the grip body (2) having an approximate U shape with a long flat bottom portion and two symmetrical bending portion connected at two ends of the long flat portion;

the grip body (2) being provided with an elongate chamber (23);

said elongate chamber (23) extending between two ends of the U shape grip body (2) each of two ends of said chamber (23) having a hole (24), said grip body (2) having a chamber hole (25) in the long flat portion of the grip body (2), a cap (26) closing on said chamber hole (25);

a light (3) deposited in said chamber (23) of said grip body (2) and consisting of an elongate circuit board (30) and plural LED (31) fixed on said portions to the other one of said two symmetrical bending portions and thus the LEDs are distributed on the long flat bottom portion and the two bending portions;

said light possible to be lit up for shining the inside of an automobile when brightness in the inside is not enough, said light either used for increasing brightness or indicating a warning of a door being not yet closed;

wherein one outer lateral side of each bending portion of said grip body has a recessed room which has an opening on the lateral side of said bending portion, a cap is provided to close on said opening of each said recessed room, a slot is provided in a bottom of said recessed room for adjusting the location of a screw for aligning to the threaded hole of the roof of an automobile.

2. The automobile roof grip and light as claimed in claim 1, wherein said caps on said recessed rooms are respectively provided with plural hooks near four corners of an inner wall to hook closely on an inner wall of each said recessed room to be kept secured at the closed position.

3. The automobile roof grip and light as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cap on said chamber is provided with plural hooks formed on an inner wail to hook closely on an inner wall of said hole to be kept secured at the closed position.