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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2017
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kariya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yuko Imai, Shizuoka, JP;
Shigehiko Kazaoka, Shizuoka, JP;
Masashi Hanazato, Toyota, JP;
Nobukazu Araki, Hekinan-shi, JP;
Masashi Tateishi, Nagoya, JP;
KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken, JP;
AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A door handle includes a case including a placement space therein, and a light guide disposed in the placement space and configured to guide light emitted from a light source, the light guide including a light exiting surface from which the light is irradiated toward the outside of the case. An irradiation passage hole through which the light irradiated from the light exiting surface passes is formed in the case. When a tangent line which passes through an outer surface of a door panel on a travelling direction side of the light passing through the irradiation passage hole and a wall surface for forming the irradiation passage hole is defined as a connecting line and an assembly of the connecting lines at the entire circumference of the irradiation passage hole is defined as a connecting line assembly, the light exiting surface is located on the outside of the connecting line assembly.