Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090027910 | VEHICLE LIGHTING ASSEMBLY AND LIGHT GUIDING LENS FOR USE IN VEHICLE LIGHTING ASSEMBLY - A vehicle lighting assembly is provided which uses a light guiding lens without a dedicated light source. The vehicle lighting assembly can include: a light source configured to emit light rays used at least for forming a target light distribution; a light guiding member made of a transparent or semi-transparent material, the light guiding member including a plurality of individual reflective light emitting surfaces configured to be illuminated with light rays entering the light guiding member from the light source, the light guiding member including another reflective light emitting surface configured to be illuminated with parallel light rays entering the light guiding member; and a reflector having a first reflective surface configured to reflect light rays emitted from the light source for use in forming the target light distribution and a second reflective surface configured to adjust a leak portion of light rays that are not for use in forming the target light distribution so that the leak portion of light rays are made parallel with each other. | 01-29-2009 |
20090034277 | Vehicle Lamp - A vehicle lamp including a light-emitting semiconductor device can have high visibility even in an area outside of the standard light distribution pattern. The vehicle lamp can include at least one light-emitting semiconductor device and at least one lens that includes both a first lens formation and second lens formation. An optical axis of the at least one lens can correspond with that of the at least one light-emitting semiconductor device. The first lens formation can receive a strong light that is within the range of a half-value angle of light emitted from the at least one light-emitting semiconductor and which forms a standard light distribution pattern. The second lens formation can receive a weak light that is beyond the range of the half-value angle and forms a light distribution pattern in an area outside of the standard light distribution formed by the first lens formation. | 02-05-2009 |
20090061205 | CRYSTALLINE POLYMER MICROPOROUS FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND FILTRATION FILTER - To provide a crystalline polymer microporous film including: a laminate consisting of two or more crystalline polymer layers formed of crystalline polymers; and multiple pores penetrating through the laminate in the thickness direction thereof, wherein an average pore size of each of the crystalline polymer layer changes along the thickness thereof. | 03-05-2009 |
20090127187 | CRYSTALLINE POLYMER MICROPOROUS FILM, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND FILTRATION FILTER - A crystalline polymer microporous film including: a plurality of pores penetrating through from a first surface to a second surface, wherein the average pore size of pores at the first surface is larger than the average pore size of pores at the second surface, the average pore size of pores in the crystalline microporous film continuously changes from the first surface toward the second surface, and an exposed surface of the crystalline polymer microporous film has hydrophilicity represented by a wettability index of 30 dyne/cm or more. | 05-21-2009 |
20090159526 | CRYSTALLINE POLYMER MICROPOROUS MEMBRANE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND FILTER FOR FILTRATION - To provide a membrane capable of efficiently collecting fine particles for a long period of time, disclosed is a polytetrafluoroethylene microporous membrane wherein the mean pore size in the surface of the membrane is larger than the mean pore size in the back thereof and the mean pore size continuously changes from the surface toward the back. | 06-25-2009 |
20090201694 | VEHICLE LAMP - A vehicle lamp can include a light source, a reflector having a parabolic reflective surface for reflecting light beams from the light source, and a lens formed in a generally rectangular shape (i.e., square, rectangular, substantially square, substantially rectangular). The lens can include a plurality of lens cut portions for diffusing the generally parallel light beams from the reflector. The principal optical axis of the vehicle lamp can be aligned with the center of the lens. A plurality of ridge lines or valley lines can extend radially from the principal optical axis to divide the generally rectangular lens into at least a first lens cut portion, a second lens cut portion, a third lens cut portion, and a fourth lens cut portion. The first lens cut portion can be a substantial mirror image of the second lens cut portion, and the third lens cut portion can be a substantial mirror image of the fourth lens cut portion. Part of the parallel light beams from the reflector can be diffused in the left and right directions through the first and second lens cut portions, and at the same time, part of the parallel light beams from the reflector can be diffused in the up and down directions through the third and fourth lens cut portions. | 08-13-2009 |
20110122615 | LENS AND LIGHTING FIXTURE UTILIZING THE SAME - A lens and a lighting fixture utilizing the same provides a plurality of LED light sources as a single light source with a simple configuration. The lens is used with a plurality of light sources in combination and can have a single focus. The lens can include a plurality of light incident portions each disposed so as to face each of the plurality of light sources, the plurality of light incident portions collimating light beams emitted from the plurality of light sources in parallel with a predetermined optical axis while guiding the light beams inside the lens. A light exiting portion can include a refracting surface disposed on optical paths of the collimated light beams guided from the plurality of the light incident portions into the inside of the lens, with the light exiting portions causing the collimated light beams to exit and be converged on the single focus. A lighting fixture can utilize the lens described herein. | 05-26-2011 |
20110317442 | VEHICLE LIGHT FITTING UNIT - Disclosed is a vehicle light fitting unit that can include a plurality of light sources, a reflecting plane which diffusely reflects light emitted from the plurality of light sources, and a lens which emits the light, which is diffusely reflected by the reflecting plane, to a front direction. The plurality of light sources can each be provided so that a pitch between one light source and another light source adjacent to the one light source is shorter than a light path length from the one light source to the lens passing through the reflecting plane. | 12-29-2011 |
20120020103 | VEHICLE LAMP UNIT - A vehicle lamp unit can have a plurality of lamp functions with a compact and low-cost configuration. The vehicle lamp unit can include two light sources of the same type and a light guide body. The light guide body includes two light guiding blocks corresponding to the respective light sources. Each light guiding block can include a light incidence portion, a first reflection portion, a second reflection portion and a light exiting portion. The light incidence portion can receive the light from the light source to collimate the light toward the first reflection portion. The first reflection portion can reflect the light toward the second reflection portion and the second reflection portion can reflect the light toward the light exiting portion. Each of the first and second light guiding blocks can include a first region from the light incidence portion to the first reflection portion and a second region from the second reflection portion to the light exiting portion, and the first region of the first light guiding block has a different color from the first region of the second light guiding block while the second regions of the first and second light guiding blocks are untinted. | 01-26-2012 |
20120063155 | VEHICLE LIGHT - A vehicle light can project light beams through ring-shaped or arc-shaped light exiting surfaces, and among them the outermost and innermost light exiting surfaces are brighter than the others. The vehicle light can include a light emitting element having an optical axis and a light guide lens having an incidence surface on which light beams from the light emitting element at a certain angle (θ4 to θ5) impinge, reflection surfaces reflecting the light beams so that the light beams are parallel to each other, and light exiting surfaces configured to allow the reflected light beams to pass therethrough. In this vehicle light, light beams emitted at a certain angle (θ4 to θ4a where θ4<θ4a<θ5) can be projected through the farthest light exiting surface from the optical axis. The vehicle light can further include an incidence surface on which light beams emitted at a certain angle (θ2 to θ3 where θ2<θ3≦θ4) impinge, a reflecting surface reflecting the light beams from the incidence surface so that the light beams are parallel to each other, and a light exiting surface configured to allow the reflected light beams to pass therethrough. | 03-15-2012 |
20120147591 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device can include an LED and a plate-like lens body including a narrow side surface configured as an elongated rectangular light exiting surface. The LED can face towards the lens body so that light emitted in a wide angle direction is directed to the front surface and the rear surface in the thickness direction and so that light in a narrow angle direction can impinge on the second side surface of the lens body to enter the lens body. The lens body can include a first optical system having a lens portion, a first light incident surface, a first total reflection surface, and a second total reflection surface. A second optical system can include a second light incident surface, a third total reflection surface, and a fourth total reflection surface. An air layer can be provided between the lens portion and the first light incident surface. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155103 | VEHICULAR LAMP - A vehicular lamp can include a guiding lens having a polygonal outline. The guiding lens can include divided portions around the optical axis with an equal center angle. The divided portions can each have an incidence face, a reflection face that can reflect to an optical axis direction light emitted from a light source and having passed through the incidence face, and a light-exiting face that can allow the light from the reflection face to pass therethrough to be projected in an illumination direction of the vehicular lamp. Each divided portion can have an outer-diameter end of the light-exiting face or reflection face at a position farthest from the optical axis within a plane including the maximum radius portion of the divided portion and the optical axis. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163031 | VEHICLE LIGHT - A vehicle light can allow light to be emitted more uniformly through an elongated area from a fewer number of light sources as compared with a conventional one. The vehicle light can include an outer lens, a plurality of light sources arranged along the outer edge of the outer lens for emitting light in an optical axis direction orthogonal to the arraying direction thereof, an inner lens including a light guide portion elongated in the arraying direction of the light sources and disposed along the optical axis of the light sources, for dispersing the light in a longitudinal direction of the lens and emitting in the optical axis direction, and a first diffusion reflector and second diffusion reflectors configured to be elongated in the longitudinal direction of the inner lens and disposed in the optical axis direction of the lens. | 06-28-2012 |
20120188774 | LIGHTING UNIT - A lighting unit can include an LED light source, and a lens body light exiting surface greater in width than in thickness. The lens body can include a first optical system, a second optical system, and a third optical system. The first optical system can include: a lens section; a first light incident surface; a first total reflection surface; and a second total reflection surface. The second optical system can include: a second light incident surface; a third total reflection surface; and a fourth total reflection surface. The third optical system can include a third light incident surface and a fifth total reflection surface. The optical systems can direct light emitted by the source at wide or narrow angles to exit the lens body substantially parallel to the optical axis. A space can be formed between the lens section and the first light incident surface. | 07-26-2012 |
20120294030 | VEHICLE LIGHTING UNIT - A vehicle lighting unit can be configured such that it is difficult or impossible for an observer to visually recognize a light source, a light guide and the like through an outer lens and to suppress brightness unevenness. The vehicle lighting unit can project light outwardly through an opening portion formed in a minor housing of a sideview mirror along a vehicle length direction and near an outer side of the sideview minor in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle lighting unit can include: a housing provided inside the minor housing, an outer lens inside the mirror housing so as to close the opening portion, a light source disposed in a lighting chamber at a position vertically shifted from the position of the opening portion, and a light guide disposed in the lighting chamber while shifted from the position of the opening portion toward the light source. | 11-22-2012 |
20140288474 | Supporter - A supporter includes a body section having a back-contact section, a first auxiliary band section of which one end is fixed to the top end of a left side of the back-contact section and the other end is fixed to the bottom end of a right side of the back-contact section, a second auxiliary band section forming a pair with the first auxiliary band section, a first ring arranged to slide between the one end and the other end of the first auxiliary band section, a second ring forming a pair with the first ring, a first adjustment band section of which one end is fixed to loops on a right end side of the body section and the other end can be fastened to loops on the right end side of the body section, and a second adjustment band section forming a pair with the first adjustment band section. | 09-25-2014 |