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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:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ichikoh Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 8/00 ;
Abstract
A vehicle lighting device has a housing, a plurality of light guides extending in radial fashion from the substantially center part of the housing, a reflector within the housing, and a plurality of LED light sources. The surface of each light guide has a reflective region with a reflecting means along the longitudinal direction thereof and an transmissive region in which the reflecting means is not provided. The transmissive region faces forward, and the reflective region faces rearward. The reflector is disposed further to the rear than the light guides, and in opposition to the reflective regions. Each LED light source is in proximity to one end of a light guide.