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US 12,292,170 B2Granted
Illumination device for vehicles
AssigneeHella GmbH & Co. KGaA
InventorsAnsgar Gollnick, Giuseppe Mattina
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Abstract
An illumination device for vehicles, having a housing, a cover lens, which closes an opening in the housing, an elongate light guide, a light source for coupling light into the elongate light guide, a groove-like receptacle for receiving the elongate light guide, an outcoupler for coupling out the light coupled into the elongate light guide. The outcoupler is arranged along part of a lateral surface of the elongate light guide. The groove-like receptacle runs along an edge of the cover lens so that a position light is produced.
Claims10
An illumination device for a vehicle, the illumination device comprising:
- a housing;
- a cover lens that closes an opening formed in the housing;
- an elongate light guide;
- a light source to couple in light into the elongate light guide;
- a receptacle to receive the elongate light guide;
- and
- an outcoupler to couple out the light coupled into the elongate light guide, the outcoupler being arranged along part of a lateral surface of the elongate light guide,
- wherein the receptacle runs along an edge section of the cover lens so that a position light is produced, and
- wherein at least two diffusing optics elements are arranged on an inside and/or an outside of only the edge section of the cover lens, such that, in a main emission direction of the illumination device, the at least two diffusing optics elements are arranged downstream of the elongate light guide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.