US 5,398,172 AGranted

Lighting device for vehicle

AssigneeStanley Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorsShinichi Kojima, Satoshi Nagasawa, Takeshi Ishikawa

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Abstract

A lighting device for a vehicle includes a housing, an inner lens molded of a transparent colored material that is fitted to an opening portion of the housing; and an outer lens molded of a transparent colorless material; and a left-hand inner wall surface of the housing is dimensioned to have a length different from that of a right-hand inner wall surface of the housing. To prevent the presence of a colorless part of the inner wall surface from appearing to have a longer length, the foregoing colorless part of the inner wall surface is covered with an extension portion of the inner lens which comes in close contact with the inner wall surface. To improve the appearance of the lighting device, all surfaces associated with the inner lens, such as a part of the inner wall surface having a greater dimension a lower inner wall surface; and an upper inner wall surface are coated with the surface material that corresponds with a material coated on the extension portion of the inner lens.

Claims6

Dependent claims

In an improved lighting device for a vehicle including a housing (2) configured to conform in a shape thereof with a shape of a corner portion of a vehicle body, said lighting device including:

a left-hand inner wall surface of said housing that has a length different from a length of a right-hand inner wall surface of said housing, whereby one of said left-hand and right-hand inner wall surfaces of said housing has a greater length than the other one of said inner wall surfaces of said housing;
an inner lens (4) molded of a transparent colored material that is fitted to an opening portion of said housing so as to be at substantially a right angle relative to a forward direction of movement of said vehicle;
and an outer lens molded of a transparent colorless material, said outer lens having a shape which generally follows the shape of the corner portion of the vehicle body;
the improvement comprising:
an extension portion, formed of the transparent colored material, integrally formed on said inner lens, said extension portion extending along that inner wall surface of said left-hand and said right-hand inner wall surfaces of said housing that has the greater length;
and
said extension portion having a distal end portion which is extended so as to be adjacent to a rear surface of said outer lens.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.