Vehicle lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorMakiko Suetsugu
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Abstract
A vehicle lamp includes a projection lens and a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in parallel in a required direction behind the projection lens, and is configured to irradiate light emitted from each of the light emitting elements toward a front side through the projection lens. A plurality of diffusing lens elements that diffuse the light emitted from each of the light emitting elements in the required direction are provided on a front surface and/or a rear surface of the projection lens in a stripe shape to extend in a direction orthogonal to the required direction when viewed from the front side of the lamp.
Claims11
A vehicle lamp comprising:
- a projection lens;
- a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in parallel in a required direction behind the projection lens, and configured to irradiate light emitted from each of the light emitting elements toward a front side through the projection lens;
- and
- a plurality of diffusing lenses that diffuse the light emitted from each of the light emitting elements in the required direction,
- wherein the plurality of diffusing lenses are provided on a front surface and/or a rear surface of the projection lens in a stripe shape to extend in a direction orthogonal to the required direction when viewed from a front side of the lamp, and
- in each of the plurality of diffusing lenses, a light diffusing angle in the required direction is set to a larger value in a center region of the projection lens than in a peripheral region located on both sides of the required direction of the center region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.