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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2014
Light Prescriptions Innovators, Llc, Altadena, CA (US);
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ruben Mohedano, Madrid, ES;
Pablo Benitez, Madrid, ES;
Juan Carlos Minano, Madrid, ES;
Masafumi Ohno, Tokyo, JP;
Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC, Altadena, CA (US);
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle lighting unit can be configured to include a thin light guide. The vehicle lighting unit can include a solid light guide having a first surface including an internal reflection portion and a light exiting portion that are formed as a single continued surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a light incident surface through which light enters the light guide so that the light reaches and is internally reflected off the internal reflection portion of the first surface, then is internally reflected off the reflection portion of the second surface, and exits through the light exiting portion of the first surface. The reflection portion of the second surface can include a plurality of divided reflection regions, and the reflection regions can include at least one reflection region disposed at a reference position and at least one reflection region disposed at a position closer to the light exiting surface than the reference position.