Automotive lamp
AssigneesKoito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuyuki Kato, Yasushi Sato, Yuji Noritake
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Abstract
An automotive lamp according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a first lamp unit that has a first projection lens; a second lamp unit that has a second projection lens; and an inter-lens region illumination lens that is arranged such that the inter-lens region illumination lens covers a region between the first projection lens and the second projection lens when viewed from the front of the lamp and such that the inter-lens region illumination lens radiates, toward the front of the lamp, light that is emitted from at least one of the first projection lens and the second projection lens and that enters the inter-lens region illumination lens.
Claims19
An automotive lamp comprising:
- a first lamp unit that has a first projection lens;
- a second lamp unit that has a second projection lens;
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- an inter-lens region illumination lens that is arranged such that the inter-lens region illumination lens covers a region between the first projection lens and the second projection lens when viewed from the front of the lamp and such that the inter-lens region illumination lens radiates, toward the front of the lamp, light that is emitted from at least one of the first projection lens and the second projection lens and that enters the inter-lens region illumination lens,
- wherein, when viewed from the front of the lamp, the inter-lens region illumination lens covers the first projection lens and the second projection lens and has a shape that is the same as or similar to a shape formed by the first projection lens and the second projection lens that are connected to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.