Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Akira Moriyama

Koji Uchino

Hideaki Terai

Mitsuhiko Nishijima

A vehicle lamp includes a light guiding portion configured to be provided in at least one section of a vehicle body panel of a vehicle, and a light source arranged to input light into the light guiding portion such that the light is guided inside the light guiding portion. The light guiding portion has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is configured to face toward an inside of the vehicle and to serve as a light blocking surface to block the light. The outer surface is configured to face toward an outside of the vehicle and to serve as a light exiting surface from which the light is allowed to exit the light guiding portion. The vehicle body panel may be a vehicle rear panel having a resin molded portion, and the vehicle lamp may be provided integrally with the resin molded portion.

Vehicle lamp and vehicle rear panel

A window molding includes a main body and a lip part. The body includes an upper surface configured to be affixed to an inner surface of a window and the body is configured to be arranged between the inner surface and a bottom surface part of a frame. The lip part is provided on a portion of the body located on the peripheral wall part side of the frame. In an assembled state, at least a portion of the lip part extends to be closer to the bottom surface part as approaching from the body side to the peripheral wall part side, and a distance from the upper surface to the bottom surface part is defined as L. When the molding is in an unloaded state, the lip part has a portion in which the distance from the upper surface is longer than L.

Window molding for vehicle

A lamp comprises a light guide, a light source and a subject member; wherein an exit surface of the light guide is arranged at a position exposed to a front side of the subject member or located on a rear side of the subject member while being visible from the front side; wherein a surface of a light-guiding part about the exit surface located on the rear side is covered with paint or an opaque member so that the exit surface seen from the front side appears to have the same color as with surroundings thereof; wherein the subject member is molded by an opaque material or the rear side about the exit surface is covered with the paint or the opaque member; and wherein the light guide and the subject member are molded integrally with each other.

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Kariya, Japan

Akira Moriyama