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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10042111 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2016

Light guiding unit, light guiding device, and lighting and/or signal indicating device

Applicant:

Valeo Lighting Hubei Technical Center Co. Ltd, Wuhan, CN;

Inventors:

Ji Luo, Wuhan, CN;

Chen Chen, Wuhan, CN;

Pingwu Yang, Wuhan, CN;

Haiqing Zhou, Wuhan, CN;

Assignee:

VALEO LIGHTING HUBEI TECHNICAL CENTER CO., LTD., Wuhan, Hubei, CN;

Attorney:

Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Thomas M Sember

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 8/00 (2006.01); F21V 7/00 (2006.01); F21V 13/04 (2006.01); F21S 43/15 (2018.01); F21S 43/239 (2018.01); F21S 43/243 (2018.01); F21S 43/249 (2018.01); F21W 111/00 (2006.01); F21Y 105/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/0078 (2013.01); F21S 43/15 (2018.01); F21S 43/239 (2018.01); F21S 43/243 (2018.01); F21S 43/249 (2018.01); F21V 7/0091 (2013.01); F21V 13/04 (2013.01); G02B 6/002 (2013.01); G02B 6/003 (2013.01); G02B 6/0051 (2013.01); G02B 6/0055 (2013.01); G02B 6/0083 (2013.01); F21W 2111/00 (2013.01); F21Y 2105/10 (2016.08);
Abstract

A light guiding unit, light guiding device, and lighting and/or signal indicating device comprising a light entry side, for receiving incident light; a light exit side, opposite the light entry side, for emitting emergent light; and a first reflecting side, on which is disposed a reflecting face for reflecting, towards the light exit side, at least a portion of light that has entered through the light entry side, wherein the first and second entry faces have curved shapes and are disposed on the light entry side, the first and second entry faces receiving a first incident and a second incident light portion respectively, and collimating the first incident and second incident light portion respectively in a plane lying along a first direction, wherein one of the first and second entry faces guides the first or second incident light portion corresponding thereto towards the reflecting face on the first reflecting side.

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