| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7216065 |
Reflecting surface design system, reflecting surface design method, recording medium, and comput |
May 8, 2007 |
| A reflecting surface design system (50) has (1) first rendering means (54) for displaying a free-form surface (20) on which a plurality of segments (24), each of which is defined by a plurality of vertices (25.sub.1 to 25.sub.4), are formed, (2) reflection information specifying means (5 |
| 7201503 |
Vehicular lamp including hemispherical translucent member with fan-shaped zones and lens element |
April 10, 2007 |
| A vehicular lamp including a translucent member 14 and a light-emitting element 12 with its front being covered by the translucent member 14; a plurality of lens elements 14s1 and 14s2 being formed on the front surface 14b of the translucent member 14 so that the lens elements are lo |
| 7130137 |
Method of designing reflective surface of reflector in vehicle lamp |
October 31, 2006 |
| The method of designing a reflective surface of a reflector in a vehicle lamp according to the present invention comprise (1) a segment creating step of sectioning a free curved surface and creating a plurality of segments having a plurality of vertexes, and (2) a curved surface gene |
| 7033052 |
Vehicular lamp |
April 25, 2006 |
| A vehicular lamp including, within a lamp chamber s defined by a lamp body 10 and an outer cover 20, an led 28 which is the light source, and a light guide 24 which guides light emitted from the led 28 by internal reflection so as to emit light at a plurality of locations. the light |
| 7001054 |
Vehicular lamp |
February 21, 2006 |
| A vehicular lamp including, within its lamp chamber, a reflector 14, a led 20 disposed behind the reflector 14 and a mushroom-shaped light guide 30 that extends coaxially with the led 20 and guides light emitted from the led 20 to the reflector 14. The light guide 30 has an umbrella port |
| 6962428 |
Vehicular lamp |
November 8, 2005 |
| A vehicular lamp including a first LED light source that faces the back of the lamp so that its light is reflected forward of the lamp by a reflector, thus providing soft lighting due to an indirect lighting effect, the lamp further including a second LED light source that is dispose |
| 6955459 |
Vehicular marker lamp |
October 18, 2005 |
| A vehicular marker lamp including an auxiliary light emitting portion disposed near a tail/stop lamp (a main light emitting portion) having a red exterior appearance which is a lamp function color of the tail/stop lamp. The auxiliary light emitting portion is structured by a colorless |
| 6851842 |
Vehicular lamp |
February 8, 2005 |
| A vehicular lamp including a lamp chamber formed by a lamp body and a transparent outer lens covering the front opening of the lamp body, a light source installed in the lamp chamber, a reflecting surface formed in the lamp chamber and reflects light from the light source to radiate ligh |
| 6848820 |
Vehicular lamp employing led light sources |
February 1, 2005 |
| A vehicular lamp employing a plurality of LED light sources and arranged to emit light using indirect illumination wherein the total light emittance in the front direction of the lamp is increased by more effectively using the light from the LED light sources. The LED light sources are a |
| 6796695 |
Vehicular lamp employing LED light sources |
September 28, 2004 |
| A vehicular lamp utilizing an indirect lighting technique employing a plurality of LED light sources and which has a slim profile and improved appearance when lit. A reflector is provided which is composed of a plurality of small reflectors having a serrated shape and arranged in a l |
| 6796694 |
Vehicular signal lamp |
September 28, 2004 |
| A vehicular signal lamp providing a uniformly bright appearance even when the lamp is observed in a lateral direction. A reflecting surface of a reflector is composed of a plurality of reflecting elements for diffusing and reflecting in right and left directions the light from a light so |
| 6657393 |
Vehicle lamp having light sources with LEDs arranged in two groups |
December 2, 2003 |
| A vehicle lamp has light sources having light emitting diodes that are vertically and horizontally disposed in the form of a square. A first LED group is disposed in the central position of the light source and is turned on in the tail lamp lighting mode. A second LED group surrounds the |
| 6619825 |
Vehicle lamp |
September 16, 2003 |
| A lamp unit having a dome-shaped translucent panel disposed in front of several light sources is provided. Opening portions corresponding to certain light sources are formed crosswise in the translucent panel. A condenser lens is provided in the rear of each opening portion in the tr |
| 6575610 |
Vehicle indicator lamp |
June 10, 2003 |
| A vehicle indicator lamp having a transparent cover that performs horizontal light radiation at a wide angle in which a reflecting surface of a reflector is formed so as to diffusion-reflect the light from a filament of the light source into a forward direction. Horizontal deflection |
| 6543921 |
Vehicular indicator lamp |
April 8, 2003 |
| A vehicular indicator lamp that provides an observer with a novel visual impression even when the point of observation is moved either horizontally or vertically while ensuring clarity of the lamp. A reflective surface of a reflector is divided in an orthogonal grid into a plurality of s |
| 6505961 |
Method of evaluating basic curved surface for reflecting mirror, evaluation system for evaluatin |
January 14, 2003 |
| There are provided a method of evaluating a basic curved surface for a reflecting mirror, an evaluation system for evaluating a basic curved surface for a reflecting mirror, and a computer-readable storage medium on which a program is recorded. There are provided a step (105a) of enterin |
| 6493096 |
Method of determining reflective surface of reflector in vehicle lamp |
December 10, 2002 |
| In a shape determining method of a reflective surface 10a of a reflector 1 in a vehicle lamp in such structure that a basic shape thereof is a free-formed surface 20 satisfying shape constraints etc. and that reflective surface elements are assigned to segments obtained by dividing t |
| 6485170 |
Vehicular lamp |
November 26, 2002 |
| A lamp chamber is defined by a translucent cover and a lamp body supporting a light source bulb. A translucent panel is provided within the lamp chamber. A front surface of the translucent panel is half mirror-treated. An upstanding wall portion extends in a fore-aft direction in the lam |
| 6454443 |
Method of determining reflective surface of reflector in vehicle lamp |
September 24, 2002 |
| In a method of determining the shape of reflective surface 10a of reflector 1 in the structure in which the basic shape is a free-formed surface 20 satisfying shape constraints or the like and in which reflective surface elements are assigned to an array of segments obtained by dividing |
| 6364514 |
Vehicular indicator lamp |
April 2, 2002 |
| A vehicular lamp fixture, such as an indicator lamp, having an improved external appearance and originality. Diffusion lens elements are arranged at predetermined positions offset from a lamp fixture optical axis of an inner lens. The lens element optical axes of the diffusion lens eleme |
| 6361195 |
Vehicle lamp and method of determining reflective surface of reflector thereof |
March 26, 2002 |
| A reflective surface 10a of a reflector 1 in a vehicle lamp is formed in such a way that a free-formed surface 20 is created as a basic shape so as to satisfy light uniformity out of functional conditions and thin shape as a shape condition and that a reflective surface element 14 create |
| 6280064 |
Vehicle signal lamp |
August 28, 2001 |
| The reflective surface of a reflector 16 is divided through steps into a plurality of vertically elongated reflective surface elements. In each of those reflective surface elements, the light incidence section to which the output light of a light source bulb is applied is made up a conve |
| 6224246 |
Signal lamp for vehicles |
May 1, 2001 |
| A signal lamp for vehicles has a reflector that acts to diffuse light from a light source within the lamp. The reflector is made up of multiple diffusing reflective elements having a reflecting region that reflects light emitted from the light source in a direction of an optical axis of |
| 6200006 |
Vehicle Lamp |
March 13, 2001 |
| Diffusing reflector elements 14s are assigned respectively to a plurality of sector segments S centering on the optical axis Ax of reflector 14; the surface geometry of each diffusing reflector element 14s is set as a convex curved surface referenced to a paraboloid of revolution P which |
| 6070993 |
Vehicle lamp |
June 6, 2000 |
| A vehicle lamp comprises: a lamp body; and a lens disposed in front of the lamp body, forming a lamp chamber with the lamp body, wherein at least an area forming part of the inner surface of the lamp body or the lens is divided into a plurality of elements, and the cross sectional co |
| 5927848 |
Vehicular lamp and lamp body therefor |
July 27, 1999 |
| A vehicular lamp includes: a light source emitting a light; a lens having a small size in width; a reflector for reflecting the light emitting from the light source toward the lens, wherein the reflector has a large size in width relative to the lens to focus the light emitting from the |
| 5658072 |
Vehicular lamp having appearance of depth |
August 19, 1997 |
| The front opening of a lamp body with a bulb disposed therein is covered with a lens. The lens is segmented into a plural number of segmental areas. A first fisheye step group composed of convex fisheye steps and a second fisheye step groups composed of concave fisheye steps are alte |
| 5603563 |
Vehicular lamp having glittering appearance |
February 18, 1997 |
| The front opening of a lamp body with a bulb attached thereto is covered with a lens. The lens includes a plural number of areas having horizonal and vertical cylindrical steps formed thereon. The areas including the horizonal cylindrical steps and the areas including the vertical cy |
| 5582481 |
Vehicular marker lamp lens configuration for providing a depth image |
December 10, 1996 |
| An automotive marker lamp has a lens on which there are formed both convex and concave semicylindrical steps, all extending parallel to each other. Each convex step creates the real image of the light source outside lens whereas each concave step creates the virtual of the light source i |
| 5580165 |
Vehicular lamp having appearance of depth |
December 3, 1996 |
| An outer lens includes transparent segmental areas and first fisheye step groups, and an inner lens also includes transparent segmental areas and second fisheye step groups. The first and second fisheye step groups are shifted in the depth direction of the lamp so as to slightly overlap |
| 5556194 |
Vehicular lamp having glittering appearance |
September 17, 1996 |
| The front opening of a lamp space with a bulb disposed therein is covered with a lens. The lens is segmented into five sectional areas. Cylindrical steps of which the axes are vertically oriented are formed on the rear side of these sectional areas. These cylindrical steps are arrayed in |
