Vehicle lamp
AssigneeOptronics International, LLC
InventorHsi-Hsien Tsai
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Abstract
A vehicle lamp includes a lighting unit and a lens unit. The lighting unit includes pluralities of first and second light-emitting members. The lens unit includes a dispersing lens, a cover lens having a dispersing portion and a concentrating portion, and a shielding layer that has a light-transmissible section. Light emitted by the first light-emitting members passes through the dispersing lens, the light-transmissible section of the shielding layer, and the dispersing portion of the cover lens to produce a dispersing light pattern, and light emitted by the second light-emitting members passes through the concentrating portion of the cover lens to produce a concentrated light pattern.
Claims9
A vehicle lamp comprising:
- a lamp seat unit defining a receiving space that has an opening;
- a lighting unit disposed in said receiving space and including a first circuit board, a second circuit board that substantially surrounds said first circuit board, a plurality of first light-emitting members that are electrically mounted to said first circuit board, and a plurality of second light-emitting members that are electrically mounted to said second circuit board;
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- a lens unit including
- a dispersing lens that covers said first light-emitting members,
- a cover lens that is disposed at said opening, that covers said second light-emitting members and said dispersing lens, and that has
- a dispersing portion aligned with said dispersing lens, and
- a concentrating portion surrounding said dispersing portion and aligned with said second circuit board,
- a shielding layer that is mounted to one of said dispersing lens and said dispersing portion, and that has an opaque section and a light-transmissible section;
- wherein light emitted by said first light-emitting members passes through said dispersing lens, said light-transmissible section of said shielding layer, and said dispersing portion of said cover lens to produce a dispersing light pattern, said dispersing light pattern having a dark region that results from a shadow of said opaque section of said shielding layer, and a light region that corresponds to said light-transmissible section of said shielding layer;
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- wherein light emitted by said second light-emitting members passes through said concentrating portion of said cover lens to produce a concentrated light pattern that surrounds said dispersing light pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.