Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lighting apparatus and automobile including the same
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Application No.: US14734370Application Date: 2015-06-09
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Publication No.: US09632240B2Publication Date: 2017-04-25
- Inventor: Makoto Kai , Tomoyuki Ogata , Yoshihiko Kanayama , Hiro Aoki
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-121656 20140612
- Main IPC: B60Q1/00
- IPC: B60Q1/00 ; B60Q1/26 ; F21V8/00 ; F21S8/10 ; B60Q1/18 ; F21Y101/00

Abstract:
A lighting apparatus includes a ring-shaped light guide including ring-shaped light entry and light exit faces; and light-emitting devices arranged in a ring at predetermined intervals, at positions opposite the light entry face. The light guide includes collimating portions that collimate light emitted from the light-emitting devices. Each of the collimating portions includes light-reflecting faces for collimating, in the direction of the optical axis of the collimating portion, light emitted from the corresponding light-emitting device. The light-reflecting faces include: an outer reflecting face; an inner reflecting face; a lateral reflecting face; and a large radius reflecting face. A distance from the optical axis to an optical axis-side end portion of at least one of the outer reflecting face, the inner reflecting face, and the lateral reflecting face is less than a distance from the optical axis to an optical axis-side end portion of the large radius reflecting face.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150362145A1 LIGHTING APPARATUS AND AUTOMOBILE INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2015-12-17
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