Light guide body
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorTakeomi OKIMITSU
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Abstract
A light guide body 100 includes a light input portion 110 provided such that light S is input in a Z-axis direction and having a light input position 111a, a light guide portion 120 configured to guide the light input to the light input portion in a Y-axis direction, and a light output portion 130 provided such that the light guided by the light guide portion is output in the Z-axis direction and having a light output position 131a.
Claims20
A light guide body that outputs light, which is input from a light input position, from a light output position different from the light input position, the light guide body comprising:
- a light input portion including the light input position provided such that the light is input in a first direction;
- a light guide portion that guides the light, which is input to the light input portion, in a second direction intersecting the first direction;
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- a light output portion including the light output position provided such that the light guided by the light guide portion is output in a third direction intersecting the second direction,
- wherein the light guide portion has a first light guide portion and a second light guide portion adjacent to each other in a direction intersecting the second direction, and a continuous portion provided such that the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion are physically continuous and a discontinuous portion provided such that the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion are separated from each other at a boundary between the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion, and the first light guide portion and the second light guide portion are integrally stacked in the intersecting direction via the continuous portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.