US 11,655,952 B2Granted

Vehicle grille

AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, SL Corporation

InventorsByoung Suk Ahn, Jung Wook Lim, Ki Hong Lee, Seung Sik Han, Dong Hyun Go, Jung Hee Seo, Kyeong Jin Ahn

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Abstract

A vehicle grille includes: a grille panel; a lens panel disposed at a rear side of the grille panel, formed in a same shape as some or entire area of the grille panel, and, when a light is incident, configured to allow some of the light to propagate in the lens panel and emit some of the light to an outside of the lens panel; and a housing disposed on a rear surface of the lens panel, formed in a same shape as the lens panel, and including a coupling provision hole configured to allow a front surface of the lens panel to be coupled to a rear surface of the grille panel at a rear side of the lens panel, wherein the rear surface of the lens panel and a front surface of the housing are coupled at the front side of the lens panel.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A vehicle grille, comprising:

a grille panel;
a lens panel disposed at a rear side of the grille panel, and formed in a same shape as some or entire area of the grille panel, wherein when a light is incident, the lens panel is configured to allow some of the light to propagate in the lens panel and emit some of the light to the outside;
and
a housing disposed on a rear surface of the lens panel, formed in a same shape as the lens panel, and including a coupling provision hole through which a laser from a rear side of the lens panel is incident on a coupling region between a front surface of the lens panel and a rear surface of the grill panel to generate a fusing region by which the front surface of the lens panel is coupled to the rear surface of the grille panel,
wherein the rear surface of the lens panel and the front surface of the housing are coupled with each other by another incident laser emitted from a front side of the lens panel.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/744,358Filed 13 May 2022 · division
Priority: KR 10-2020-01290426 Oct 2020
Published: US 2022/0107071 A125 Aug 2022
Granted: 23 May 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification34 codes

F21S 41/55
Characterised by aesthetic components not otherwise provided for, e.g. decorative trim, partition walls or covers: attachment thereof
F21S 43/14
Characterised by the type of light source: light emitting diodes [LED]
B29C 65/1635
Characterised by the way of heating the interface: at least passing through one of the parts to be joined, i.e. laser transmission welding
B29C 65/169
Making use of light guides: being a part of the joined article

Family

Application17/341,883Parent of this division · filed 8 Jun 2021
US 2022/0268415 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Aug 2022
US 11,441,751 B2Parent of this division
US 2022/0107071 A1Published application
US 11,655,952 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.