Rear fender integrated tail lamp device for motorcycle

• US 7,108,407 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2003
• Issued: 09/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha (Yamaha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha (Yamaha Corporation)
• Inventors: Kashiwagi, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Cariaso, Alan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Negron, Ismael
• Application Number:
  US10/624,923
• Publication Number:
  US 20040130901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 362/473, 362/506, 362/541, 362/459, 362/487, 362/496, 362/497, 362/540, 362/543, 362/544, 362/227, 362/235, 362/236, 362/244, 362/245, 362/249, 362/252, 362/362, 362/368, 362/369, 362/800, 362/545, 362/549, 293/28, 293/29
• US Class Current: 362/473
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 15/00 Mud-guards for wheels
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 6/04 Rear lights

Abstract

A tail lamp device includes a tail lamp that is attached to the rear fender of a motorcycle. The tail lamp includes a substrate and a plurality of light emitting elements such as LEDs mounted on the substrate, and the substrate is disposed along a rearwardly descending surface of the rear fender to reduce protrusion of the tail lamp from the rear fender. A lens covering the light emitting elements has a directivity that directs light emitted from the light emitting elements generally horizontally to the rear of the motorcycle.

Claims

1. A rear fender having a tail lamp device that is mounted on a motorcycle, the tail lamp device comprising:

a concave mounting section formed in a rearwardly sloped surface of the rear fender;

a lamp substrate that substantially covers the concave mounting section and is disposed along a rearwardly sloped surface of the rear fender;

a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on the lamp substrate, wherein each of the plurality of light emitting elements extends in a same direction which is diagonally relative to a horizontal direction;

at least one lens that covers the plurality of light emitting elements and has a directivity that causes light emitted rearwardly from the plurality of light emitting elements in a direction diagonally relative to the horizontal direction to be redirected in the horizontal direction; and

a circuit substrate for at least the light emitting elements, disposed in the concave mounting section below the lamp substrate.

2. A rear fender according to claim 1, wherein the light emitting elements are LED elements.