Vehicular illumination device
AssigneeHonda Access Corp.
InventorsAtsushi Yamauchi, Hidekazu Hayakawa
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Abstract
In a vehicular illumination device which illuminates a lower part around an opened part of a door at a side of a vehicle, a side sill garnish is provided below the door-opened part, and a lamp and a lamp garnish which retains the lamp are arranged on a lower face of the side sill garnish. As the lamp is retained by the lamp garnish, the lamp can efficiently and appropriately illuminate an underfoot floor when a person rides on and off the vehicle. Moreover, the lamp garnish has a recess, and an edge which is provided around an opened part of the recess. As the lamp is arranged in the recess, the lamp is not visually recognized directly from the exterior of edge parts, thereby preventing a following vehicle from falsely recognizing the lamp as a backup lamp.
Claims14
A vehicular illumination structure, comprising:
- a side sill configured to be disposed on a lower part of a vehicle body below a door opening, said side sill having a mounting hole formed in a lower face thereof,
- a lamp housing which retains a lamp, the lamp housing including a main body housing the lamp and an abutting part,
- wherein the main body of the lamp housing is inserted into the mounting hole of the side sill from underneath, and
- wherein the lamp housing is attached to the side sill by abutting the abutting part of the lamp housing on the lower face of the side sill.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.