Structure for illuminating sunvisor
AssigneesHarness Systems Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorTakuya Inoue
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Abstract
Illuminating light of an illuminating lamp 32 of a lamp socket 31 in a roof panel 1 is made incident on an incident end of a light guide 17 for the stay 16 at an end of a vertical shaft portion 16b of a stay 16. Illuminating light emitted from the emission end of the light guide 17 for the stay 16 at the end of the horizontal shaft portion 16a of the stay 16 is guided to an illuminating light guide 15 through a sunvisor-side light guide 19 so that the sunvisor is illuminated with the illuminating light guide 15.
Claims6
An apparatus for illuminating a sunvisor wherein a horizontal shaft portion of an L-shape stay having a vertical shaft portion rotatively connected via by a stay holder to a roof panel of a vehicle is inserted into a visor holder of a sunvisor body so that said sunvisor body is supported movably in the vertical direction around a horizontal shaft and said sunvisor body has an illuminating member,
- said apparatus for illuminating a sunvisor comprising:
- a stay-side light guide insert-molded into said stay;
- a lamp socket which holds a lamp, the light from which is made incident on an incident end of said stay-side light guide and which is disposed proximal to an end of the vertical shaft portion of said stay;
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- a sunvisor-side light guide integrally connected to said sunvisor body and arranged to introduce, to an illuminating light guide, light emitted from an emission end of said stay-side light guide at the end of the horizontal shaft portion of said stay.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.