Vehicle lighting device
AssigneeKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorMasashi Tatsukawa
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Abstract
A vehicle lighting device includes a reflection type lamp unit including a first LED that emits light downward; and a reflective face that reflects part of the light emitted by the first LED outward to the front of the vehicle lighting device. Part of the light emitted by the first LED is output, as directly emitted light, directly to the front of the vehicle lighting device. The reflective face includes a first reflective portion that reflects light as vertically almost parallel light and as horizontally diffused light, and a second reflective portion that reflects light below the light reflected by the first reflective portion and above the directly emitted light.
Claims10
A vehicle lighting device comprising:
- a reflection type lamp unit comprising:
- a first LED that emits light downward;
- and
- a reflective face that reflects part of the light emitted by the first LED outward to the front of the vehicle lighting device,
- wherein part of the light emitted by the first LED is output, as directly emitted light, directly to the front of the vehicle lighting device, and
- wherein the reflective face comprises:
- a first reflective portion that reflects light as vertically almost parallel light and as horizontally diffused light, and
- a second reflective portion that reflects light below the light reflected by the first reflective portion and above the directly emitted light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.