Vehicular lighting device
AssigneeTYC Brother Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorMing-Chih Shih
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Abstract
A vehicular lighting device includes a plurality of light-emitting units and a plurality of lens units. Each of the light-emitting units includes a plurality of light-emitting subunits each of which is operable to generate light beams. Each of the lens units includes a plurality of lens subunits each of which includes a first lens and a second lens. Each of the light-emitting units corresponds to two of the lens units that are adjacent to each other. A portion of the light beams generated by the light-emitting subunits of each of the light-emitting units travels into the first lenses of the lens subunits of one of the corresponding two of the lens units such that the portion of the light beams is reflected by the first lenses of the one of the corresponding two of the lens units.
Claims8
A vehicular lighting device comprising:
- a plurality of light-emitting units arranged in a left-right direction, each of said light-emitting units including a plurality of light-emitting subunits that are arranged in an up-down direction orthogonal to the left-right direction, each of said light-emitting subunits being operable to generate light beams;
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- a plurality of lens units arranged in the left-right direction, said lens units and said light-emitting units being arranged in a front-rear direction orthogonal to the left-right direction and the up-down direction, each of said lens units including a plurality of lens subunits that are arranged in the up-down direction, each of said lens subunits including a first lens and a second lens that are arranged in the left-right direction, each of said light-emitting units corresponding to two of said lens units that are adjacent to each other, each of said light-emitting units being proximate to said first lenses of said lens subunits of one of the corresponding two of said lens units and said second lenses of said lens subunits of the other one of the corresponding two of said lens units, a portion of the light beams generated by said light-emitting subunits of each of said light-emitting units traveling into said first lenses of said lens subunits of the one of the corresponding two of said lens units such that the portion of the light beams is reflected by said first lenses of the one of the corresponding two of said lens units and then exits said first lenses of the one of the corresponding two of said lens units in a first direction, a remaining portion of the light beams generated by said light-emitting subunits of each of said light-emitting units traveling into said second lenses of said lens subunits of the other one of the corresponding two of said lens units such that the remaining portion of the light beams is reflected by said second lenses of the other one of the corresponding two of said lens units and then exits said second lenses of the other one of the corresponding two of said lens units in a second direction, the front-rear direction, the first direction, and the second direction cooperatively defining an imaginary plane that is parallel thereto, the front-rear direction being parallel to the first direction when rotated counterclockwise by x degrees on the imaginary plane, the front-rear direction being parallel to the second direction when rotated clockwise by y degrees on the imaginary plane, each of x and y being greater than 0 and smaller than 90.
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