On-vehicle interior illuminating device
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsShuji Satake, Ken Ito
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide an on-vehicle interior illuminating device able to show the light moving with a small number of light sources and to reduce cost. The on-vehicle interior illuminating device includes: a light guide member; one light source unit; the other light source unit; and a control unit. The control unit turns on the other light source unit after turning on the one light source unit, turns off the one light source unit after turning on the other light source unit, and turns off the other light source unit after turning off the one light source unit.
Claims2
An on-vehicle interior illuminating device comprising:
- a light guide member having one end and the other end arranged in a longitudinal direction thereof and configured to guide and diffuse light from both the one end and the other end;
- one light source unit provided at the one end of the light guide member;
- the other light source unit provided at the other end of the light guide member;
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- a control unit configured to respectively control lighting of both one and the other light source units,
- wherein the control unit turns on the other light source unit after turning on the one light source unit, turns off the one light source unit after turning on the other light source unit, and turns off the other light source unit after turning off the one light source unit,
- wherein the light emitted from the one light source unit enters obliquely with respect to the one end of the light guide member, and
- wherein the light emitted from the other light source unit enters obliquely with respect to the other end of the light guide member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.