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US 6,550,946 B2Granted
Inside handle illuminator
AssigneeToyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkihiro Misawa, Hiroshi Ito, Hisatoshi Ota, Kazushi Noda, Akihiro Honma
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Abstract
A lamp unit provided with an LED light source is attached to the back surface of an inside handle vessel, and the position of the light source is fixed. Then, the inside handle vessel together with the lamp unit is installed in a door trim.
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An inside handle illuminator, comprising:
- an inside handle vessel;
- an inside handle portion;
- a lamp unit having a light source for illuminating the inside handle portion of said inside handle vessel from a back surface side of said inside handle vessel;
- and
- a fixing device for fixing said lamp unit to said inside handle vessel, wherein said fixing device makes at least one part of said inside handle vessel engage with at least one part of said lamp unit so as to engage said lamp unit to said inside handle vessel.
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An inside handle illuminator, comprising:
- an inside handle vessel having first and second plug-in portions formed in a back surface of said inside handle vessel;
- and
- an LED unit including an LED for illuminating an inside handle portion from a back surface side of said inside handle vessel, said LED unit having first and second protrusions;
- wherein said first protrusion is plugged in said first plug-in portion, and said second protrusion is plugged in said second plug-in portion, whereby said LED unit is engaged to said inside handle vessel.
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An illumination module, comprising:
- a vessel;
- a lamp unit having a light source;
- and
- a fixing device for fixing said lamp unit to said vessel;
- wherein said lamp unit is fixed to said vessel so that said light source illuminates said vessel inside from a back surface side of said vessel, and wherein said fixing device makes at least two parts of said vessel engage with at least two parts of said lamp unit so as to engage said lamp unit to said vessel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.