Method for manufacturing a vehicular lamp and a vehicular lamp
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorMitsuyuki Mochizuki
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing a vehicular lamp including a wire installation process that installs a wire (hearing wire) 6 in a flat resin plate 7 by heat; a shape-forming process that forms the resin plate 7 into a predetermined curved shape; a trimming process that trims the resin plate formed in the predetermined curved shape into a desired shape of the exterior contour of a front lens 3; and a fixing process that fixes the front lens to a lamp body 2 by optical welding.
Claims7
A method for manufacturing a vehicular lamp in which a front lens thereof is provided with a wire for heating the front lens, said method comprising the steps of:
- installing a wire in a resin plate of a flat shape by heat;
- forming the the resin plate into a predetermined shape;
- trimming the resin plate of the predetermined shape into a desired shape to form the front lens;
- and
- fixing the front lens to a lamp body by optical welding.
A vehicular lamp in which a front lens thereof is provided with a wire for heating the front lens, wherein
- the front lens is comprised of a resin plate, the resin plate being installed with a wire by heat, formed into a predetermined curved shape and then trimmed into a desired front lens outer contour shape;
- and
- the front lens is fixed to a lamp body by optical welding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.