Lens component, indicator unit for signal indicating light, and signal indicating light
Abstract
A lens component includes: a light incident portion (16) having an incident face (14) upon which light from a light source (6) is incident, the light source (6) being disposed at a light source position (15); and a plurality of plate-like light guiding portions (17, 32) disposed radially around an axis (S0) passing through the light source position (15) or a position in the vicinity thereof, and arranged to guide light incident from the incident face (14) of the light incident portion (16), in emission directions (F, F1-F3) at right angles to the axis (S0). Each of the plate-like light guiding portions (17, 32) is provided on an end face (27) thereof with a radial reflecting face (29, 29A, 29B) for internally reflecting, in the emission directions (F, F1-F3), the light incident from the incident face (14) of the light incident portion (16). Further, each of the plate-like light guiding portions (17, 32) has a pair of main surfaces (25) forming a pair of light guiding and reflecting surfaces which extend substantially in parallel to the predetermined axis (S0) and which guide, as internally reflecting, the light incident from the incident face (14) in the emission directions (F, F1-F3).

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| EP1632708A2 | European Patent Office (EPO) | A2 | |
| TW200609453A | Taiwan Province of China | A | |
| JP2006100242A | Japan | A | |
| KR20060050964A | Republic of Korea | A | |
| TWI269851B | Taiwan Province of China | B | |
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| JP4089692B2 | Japan | B2 | |
| US7445360B2 | United States of America | B2 | |
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| CN100595472C | China | C |
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Numbers
- Publication
- 1632708
- Application
- 50184662
Titles3
- German
- Linsenkomponente, Anzeigeeinheit für Anzeigeleuchte und Anzeigeleuchte
- English
- Lens component, indicator unit for signal indicating light, and signal indicating light
- French
- Composant de lentille, unité d'affichage pour lampe de signalisation, et lampe de signalisation
Classification
- CPC, 15
- F21S8/083
- G02B5/02
- F21S10/06
- F21V5/04
- F21V7/0091
- F21W2111/00
- F21W2111/02
- F21W2111/04
- F21W2131/403
- G02B6/0001
- G02B6/0021
- G02B6/003
- G02B6/0033
- F21V7/041
- F21Y2115/10
- IPC, 4
- F21S8 00
- F21V8 00
- F21W111 00
- F21Y101 02
Designated states36
- Contracting states, 31
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Spain
- Finland
- France
- United Kingdom
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Italy
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Latvia
- Monaco
- Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Sweden
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Türkiye
- Extension states, 5
- Albania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- North Macedonia
- Yugoslavia, later Serbia and Montenegro (until 2006)