US 11,598,907 B2Granted

Light body

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsYuji Tsuchiya, Daisuke Nakashima, Shunsuke Iwao, Masayoshi Takori

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Abstract

A method for producing a half mirror includes forming a reflection region by which light is reflected and a transmission region through which the light is transmitted on a surface of a transparent plate Only the reflection region is coated with a plating. The coating includes a masking step of coating a position of the transparent plate corresponding to the transmission region with a masking material, a plating step of coating the entire surface which includes the transmission region which has been coated with the masking material and the reflection region with the plating, a plating removing step of removing the plating to a depth in which the masking material is exposed after the plating step, and a masking material removing step of removing the masking material after the plating removing step.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A lighting body, comprising:

half mirror having a light emitting surface at a light emitting surface side of the half mirror;
a light source;
a light guide body configured to guide light from the light source to cause the light emitting surface to emit light;
and
a reflector arranged to face the half mirror and configured to reflect the light toward the light emitting surface side,
wherein the half mirror has a transparent plate with a reflection region by which light is reflected and a transmission region through which the light is transmitted on a surface of the transparent plate;
wherein the transmission region is formed by a plurality of vertical lines and a plurality of horizontal lines in a grid pattern, and the reflection region is provided in the portion surrounded by the plurality of vertical lines and horizontal lines,
wherein the half mirror is formed by:
a masking step of coating a position of the transparent plate corresponding to the transmission region with a masking material;
a plating step of coating the entire surface which includes the transmission region which has been coated with the masking material and the reflection region with the plating, with the plating thicker than the masking material;
a plating removing step of removing the plating to a depth in which the masking material is exposed after the plating step;
and
a masking material removing step of removing the masking material after the plating removing step,
wherein the reflector is provided at an interval from the half mirror, and
a surface of the reflector facing the half mirror side is formed to be convex toward the half mirror side.

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