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US 11,634,064 B1Granted
Vehicular lamp fitting and radar structure
AssigneeStanley Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsTaizo Yokoyama, Takuya Matsumaru, Keiichi Hirata, Satoshi Ito
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Abstract
A vehicular lamp fitting and the like in which a radar unit can be replaced without replacing the whole vehicular lamp fitting are provided. A vehicular lamp fitting includes a lamp housing, an outer lens attached to the lamp housing and forming a lamp chamber between the outer lens and the lamp housing, a lamp unit disposed in the lamp chamber, a bracket, and a radar unit detachably fixed to the bracket.
Claims9
A vehicular lamp fitting comprising:
- a lamp housing;
- an outer lens attached to the lamp housing and forming a lamp chamber between the outer lens and the lamp housing;
- a lamp unit disposed in the lamp chamber;
- a bracket;
- and
- a radar unit detachably fixed to the bracket, wherein
- a through hole connected to the lamp chamber is formed in the lamp housing,
- the bracket comprises a first part and a second part, the first part being configured to be disposed in the lamp chamber through the through hole, and the second part being configured to close the through hole in a state where the first part is disposed in the lamp chamber,
- the vehicular lamp fitting further comprises a fixing part configured to detachably fix the bracket to the lamp housing in a state in which the first part is disposed in the lamp chamber and the second part closes the through hole, and
- the radar unit is disposed in the lamp chamber while being detachably fixed to the first part.
7 more elements
A radar structure comprising:
- a bracket comprising a first part and a second part, the first part being configured to be disposed in a lamp chamber through a through hole formed in a lamp housing, the lamp chamber being formed by the lamp housing and an outer lens attached to the lamp housing, the second part being configured to close the through hole in a state where the first part is disposed in the lamp chamber, and the bracket being configured to be detachably fixed to the lamp housing in a state in which the first part is disposed in the lamp chamber and the second part closes the through hole;
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- a radar unit disposed in the lamp chamber while being detachably fixed to the bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.