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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.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Reitter & Schefenacker GmbH & Co. KG, Esslingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
362 31 ; 362 32 ; 362 61 ;
Abstract
A vehicle taillight has a housing and a light-transmissive cover for closing off the housing. At least one light source is located within the housing for emitting light through the light-transmissive cover. At least one light-guiding member is positioned within the housing between the light source and the light-transmissive cover. The light-guiding member consists of light guide material and reflects light emitted by the light source onto the light-transmissive cover.