Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yoshiro Tanaka

Takahiro Tsuchiya

Keiichiro Kojima

A vehicular lamp body includes a light source which is mounted in a vehicle, an outer lens which guides light from the light source and emits the light, and a housing which holds the outer lens. The outer lens has a lens part which is exposed on an outer surface of the vehicle and guides light from the light source and emits the light to the outside; and a reflection part which is integrally formed with the lens part, reflects light from the light source, and guides the light to the lens part. A light diffusion part is formed on an inner surface of the lens part.

Vehicular lamp body

An attention attracting device that effectively attracts attention and has improved versatility over a conventional technology, a mobile body including this attention attracting device, and a method for controlling the attention attracting device are provided. A predetermined area including a gazing point of a viewer is set as a central visual field at a time of the viewer directing a visual line, and an area other than the central visual field is set as a peripheral visual field. The attention attracting device includes a light source set to such a frequency F [Hz] that the light source is seen to be turned on in a case in which the light source is present in the central visual field and is seen to be blinking in a case in which the light source is present in the peripheral visual field. The mobile body includes the attention attracting device as a lamp body of a vehicle and emits light from the light source to the outside.

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Wako, Japan

Yoshiro Tanaka