Illumination device
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuma Muramatsu, Akitoshi Naganawa, Itsuhiko Hirota
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Abstract
An illumination device is to be provided in a steering wheel. The illumination device includes a substrate provided with a light emitting element on a surface of the substrate, a cover member that forms a part of an outer surface of the steering wheel and has light transmission of emitting visible light output from the light emitting element to an outside of the steering wheel, a light guiding member configured to guide the visible light output from the light emitting element to the cover member, and a base member to which the substrate and the cover member are attached and which holds the substrate and the cover member. The light guiding member is held by being sandwiched between the substrate and the base member.
Claims8
An illumination device to be provided in a steering wheel, comprising:
- a substrate provided with a light emitting element on a surface of the substrate;
- a cover member that forms a part of an outer surface of the steering wheel and has light transmission of emitting visible light output from the light emitting element to an outside of the steering wheel;
- a light guiding member configured to guide the visible light output from the light emitting element to the cover member;
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- a base member to which the substrate and the cover member are attached and which holds the substrate and the cover member,
- wherein the light guiding member is sandwiched between the substrate and the base member and held in direct contact in a front-rear direction with the substrate and the base member,
- wherein the substrate is attached to the base member by screwing a screw through the substrate into the base member, and the light guiding member is held by the substrate and the base member due to the screwing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.