Line-of-light illuminating device

A line-of-light illuminating device, comprising:

• an elongated optical lightpipe having an elongated main body with a longitudinal axis and a pair of spaced opposite ends, said main body of said lightpipe having an input end surface at one of said opposite ends for receiving light, said main body of said lightpipe having a triangular cross-sectional shape for transmitting the received light via internal reflection from said input end surface at one of said opposite ends toward another of said opposite ends;
• means defining a reflective surface along an apex of an emission portion of said main body of said lightpipe and adjacent to said other opposite end thereof, for receiving the light transmitted by internal reflection from said input end surface and reflecting the light in a generally perpendicular direction from said reflective surface;
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• an integral optical lens disposed on a side of said emission portion of said main body of said lightpipe being opposite from the apex, said lens having a central axis spaced from and extending generally parallel to said longitudinal axis of said main body of said lightpipe and spaced from and extending generally parallel to said reflective surface for receiving the reflected light from said reflective surface and focusing the light into a collimated line of light.