Light guide designed for use in a vehicle

Abstract

A light guide fitting a vehicle panel seen by a viewer facing said panel. The light guide features an overall planar shape with at least one edge equipped with optical interfaces intended to accommodate light sources, such as LEDs, directed towards the light guide in an illumination direction. It also comprises multiple through-hole sections arranged in rows that extend parallel to the illumination direction. The optical interfaces are positioned in locations on the edge that do not overlap with the projections of the through-hole sections onto the edge in the illumination direction. At least one of the through-hole sections has a frustoconical cross-section in any plane perpendicular to the illumination direction, the apex of the corresponding cone being located opposite the observation face when the light guide is fitting the vehicle panel. A grill lamp and a body panel comprising such a grill lamp are also disclosed.

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