Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Takayuki Kamiya

Hiroshi Ito

Mitsuhiro Nawashiro

Kazushi Noda

Akihiro Misawa

Hideki Kokubu

Yoshio Sano

Shuji Inui

Hiroshi Sugihara

Chiharu Totani

Tatsuya Oba

Osamu Yamanaka

Tadaoki Ichikawa

Yoshinori Masatsugu

Kazuo Takeda

Yukiko Marui

Moriyuki Hashimoto

Yusuke Ueshima

Yasuyuki Higuchi

A vehicle interior panel has a front surface as a design surface. The vehicle interior panel includes a base material being in a plate-shape and having optical transparency, a decorative layer provided on a first surface of the base material and having optical transparency, the first surface being a surface on the front surface side, and a pattern portion provided on a second surface of the base material and having a pattern that is displayed on the front surface by emission of light from a side opposite to the front surface. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The pattern portion includes a gradation portion in which light transmittance continuously changes in a planar direction. A gradation pattern is displayed on the front surface by emission of light from the side opposite to the front surface to the gradation portion.

Vehicle interior panel

A lighting device for use in vehicles includes a light generating part having a substrate and a light source disposed on the substrate; a base including a light emitting part having a light emitting surface for emitting light from the light source, and a reverse surface on a backside of the light emitting surface, and a connector housing part disposed on the reverse surface and housing a connector electrically connected to the light source; and a case assembled with the base and housing the light generating part and the connector housing part. The base including the light emitting part and the connector housing part is an integral molding and constituted by a light transmitting member containing a light diffusing material.

Lighting device

Luminous surfacesof a concave-convex shape are formed on a light guide memberof a scuff plate, and a screen membermade of a non-transparent material is disposed between the light guide memberand a wire harnessof the scuff plate. The light guide memberluminously displays a design in a three-dimensional manner, and also the wire harnesswill not be visually recognized through the light guide member, and therefore the design is enhanced.

Scuff plate

There is provided an LED lamp unit comprising an LED lamp, a protective component for an LED lighting circuit, a circuit section and a case part, characterized in that the circuit section has a metal plate which is embedded in the case part with its surface partially exposed, a lead of the LED lamp is electrically connected to the exposed surface of the metal plate, and the protective component for the LED lighting circuit is connected to the metal plate at an opposite side to a side where the lead of the LED lamp is connected.

LED lamp unit

The invention is an indicator lamp for warning signal to a person who approaches the vehicle to steal a vehicle. The indicator lamp includes a lamp unit including a light emitting diode (LED). The indicator lamp includes a light guide including an elongated portion and a cover portion. The elongated portion receives a light from the LED at one end and conveys the light to a light emitting end. The cover portion covers the LED of the lamp unit and is integrally formed with the elongated portion. The light guide connects with the lamp unit at the cover portion. The indicator lamp prevents rainwater from the top from entering the lamp unit.

Indicator lamp for vehicle interior

An LED lamp apparatus includes an LED and a light diffuser located on a light emission side of the LED. The light diffuser is made of at least one light transmittable material and has a light diffusing member at a peripheral portion of a light passing area of the LED. Alternatively, the light diffuser may be formed of at least one light transmittable material, and the light diffusing member may be located at a center portion of the light passing area of the LED.

LED lamp apparatus

In the illumination device of the invention, an LED is oppose to a side surface of a flat light guide member. A light shield surface for shielding light from the LED and emitted toward the backside of the guide member in vicinity of the LED on the backside of the light guide member.

Illumination device

The invention is directed to provide a vehicle interior illumination device which has a high illuminating effect and which can be used for various kinds of illumination in a vehicle. The illumination device disposed in a roof portion of the interior of a vehicle, including: a first light-emitting section having a first light source constituted by a plurality of first LEDs disposed at substantially regular spaces; and a second light-emitting section having a second light source constituted by a second LED, and a second outer lens with which a light emission side of the second light source is covered and by which light emitted from said second light source is converged and radiated out.

An LED lamp apparatus comprises LED, a circuit member, and a case member. The case member has an LED seat for holding the LED. The circuit member has metal plates embedded in the case member. The metal plates have LED connection members exposed from the case member. The LED connection members have been resistance welded respectively to leads of the LED.

A lighting device has an LED light source and a lens. The lens includes a light emitting surface arranged substantially parallel to a wall of a container when the device is attached to the wall, and a first light receiving surface. The first light receiving surface receives light that is emitted from the LED light source in a direction slanted with respect to the light emitting surface, and takes a concave surface configured such that a distance of the first light receiving surface to the light emitting surface increases from one end to the other end of the lens. The LED light source is disposed while being confronted with one end part of the lens.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Takayuki Kamiya