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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2012
Kyohei Nakamura, Kyoto, JP;
Toshizumi Okada, Osaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Sekii, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An illumination device includes a plurality of light sources for emitting light and an optical member arranged in front of the light sources to control distribution of the light emitted from the light sources. The optical member includes a plurality of lens portions having storage recess portions formed in alignment with the light sources to accommodate the light sources and a plurality of ribs extending laterally from the lens portions to fix the lens portions to a substrate holding the light sources, each of the lens portions having a light distribution control portion formed in a rear opening edge of each of the storage recess portions to distribute frontward the light emitted from the light sources toward the ribs.