Koito Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

Manabu Maeda

Takao Muramatsu

Tsukasa Tokida

Yuji Sakurai

Motohiro Komatsu

Hiroya Koizumi

Kenji Yamada

Masaaki Nakabayashi

Kazutami Oishi

Tsutomu Machida

Akihiro Matsumoto

Asami Nakada

Norimasa Yamamoto

Takeyuki Tachiiwa

Hiroki Ishibashi

Koji Uchino

Toshiyasu Mochizuki

Tomoaki Otani

Takashi Terayama

Noriaki Ito

Yuki Takahashi

Naruhiro Michiba

A vehicular rear panel with a new configuration is provided. The vehicular rear panel according to an aspect of the present disclosure is made of a resin material and disposed on a rear vehicle body part. The vehicular rear panel includes a light guiding unit configured to guide light from the light source along an extending direction of the vehicular rear panel and a light emitting unit configured to emit light in the light guiding unit to a rear side of a vehicle.

Vehicular rear panel

Disclosed is a vehicle lamp capable of improving a production efficiency, reducing a cost, and shortening a production line as compared to a case in which a dedicated mechanical equipment is used. The vehicle lamp includes an optical unit, a pivot member fixed to a bracket of the optical unit, a lamp body having a bearing insertion hole, and a bearing member which is fixed to the lamp body to be engageable with the pivot member. The pivot member and the bearing member are engaged with each other to constitute at least one supporting unit of an aiming mechanism. In addition, the optical unit is tiltably supported by the aiming mechanism and the bearing member is fixed to the lamp body by being inserted into the bearing insertion hole.

Vehicle lamp

A vehicle lamp arrangement for mounting to a vehicle body, the lamp arrangement having an irradiation angle adjusting mechanism, including a vehicle mounting bracket mounted to the vehicle body and having a shielding portion; a lamp body portion for housing the lamp; and an adjusting shaft having a first portion completely covered by the vehicle mounting bracket and a second portion for connecting to the lamp body portion, the adjusting shaft being configured within the lamp arrangement to adjust a distance between the vehicle body and the shielding portion when the adjusting shaft is rotated such that the vehicle lamp is inclined with respect to the vehicle body, wherein upon connection of the second portion of the adjusting shaft to the lamp body portion, the second portion of the adjusting shaft is also shielded such that the rotating operation of the adjusting shaft is disabled. Adjustment of the irradiation angle is disabled at least after the irradiation angle adjusting mechanism has been assembled to the vehicle.

Vehicle lamp having irradiation angle adjusting mechanism

An automobile lamp of the type including a light source, a lens member and an inner lens member disposed between the light source and the lens member. A mounting portion is integrally formed on the inner lens member, a stepped portion is formed on the lens member, and an edge of the mounting portion is secured to the stepped portion by ultrasonic welding.

Automobile Lamp

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Shizuoka, Japan

Manabu Maeda