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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2016
Varroc Lighting Systems, S.r.o., Senov u Noveho Jicina, CZ;
Colby J. Childress, Novi, MI (US);
Timothy Pelech, Almont, MI (US);
VARROC LIGHTING SYSTEMS, S.R.O., Senov u Noveho Jicina, CZ;
Abstract
A lighting device includes a housing, the housing comprising an opening. The lighting device also comprises a lens operably disposed in the opening, the lens having an outer viewable face and an opposed inner face, the lens comprising an integrally formed axially-extending light guide, the light guide comprising a light inlet end, a light outlet comprising a portion of the outer viewable face, and a light transmission portion, the light transmission portion comprising a light reflecting structure disposed on the inner face. The lighting device also includes a light source, the light guide configured to receive light rays from the light source into the light inlet end, transmit the rays via internal reflectance along light transmission portion to the light reflecting structures where they are reflected outwardly away from the lighting device in a principal direction through the outer viewable face.