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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1987
Atsushi Yamada, Shizuoka, JP;
Masaki Hagiwara, Shizuoka, JP;
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An illuminating device for a grille portion between the headlamps of an automobile which is illuminated both day and night to blend the grille with the headlamps. The device includes a clear front panel having a display portion and a step pattern having a lens-like cross section formed in the rear surface of the panel. An inner lens is provided behind the front panel having upwardly slanting sawtooth-like step reflecting structures formed on the front surface of the inner lens and a light-converging structure formed on the rear surface. A light directing plate having a reflecting surface is disposed behind the inner lens. A light source is mounted in a central thick portion of the light directing plate.