Hitachi, Ltd.

Central Japan Railway Company

Koito Electric Industries, Ltd.

A & F Corporation

Hideto Sanui

Tadashi Fujii

Takashi Furukawa

Tohru Watanabe

Jun Ito

Hajime Suzuki

Tetsuo Fukuda

Youmei Kaminaga

Hajime Ito

Kiyoshi Morita

Takayuki Izumi

Kazuo Maruyama

Yuuji Ueno

Ichiro Fukuda

Yuichi Ahiko

Kyohei Suzuki

Yukinobu Abe

Hiroki Shimoyama

Yasuhide Ueda

A lighting device includes an indoor lamp (), being provided in the cabin of a railroad vehicle () in order to wholly irradiate the inside of the cabin over the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a vehicle body power supply (), supplying electric power to the indoor lamp (), and a storage battery (), being charged with a voltage applied by the vehicle body power supply (). The indoor lamp () includes a general lamp light source () and a standby lamp light source (), being lighted at an illuminance lower than that at which the general lamp light source () is lighted, and the general lamp source () being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply () not through the storage battery (), while the standby lamp light source () being supplied with electric power from the vehicle body power supply () through the storage battery (). In an emergency, electric power is supplied from the storage battery () only to the standby lamp light source (), and the standby lamp light source () is continued to be lighted at the low illuminance.

Lighting device

Rail vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Aichi, Japan

Hideto Sanui