EP 1500872 B1 20070905 - Vehicle lighting device with an annular reflector, and relative improved reflector
Title (en)
Vehicle lighting device with an annular reflector, and relative improved reflector
Title (de)
Beleuchtungseinrichtung für Fahrzeuge mit einem ringförmigen Reflektor und entsprechender verbesserter Reflektor
Title (fr)
Dispositif d'illumination pour véhicules avec un réflecteur annulaire et réflecteur perfectionné correspondant
Publication
Application
Priority
IT TO20030583 A 20030725
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP1500872A2] A vehicle lighting device (1), typically a headlamp or signal lamp, including a casing (2); a light source (3) and a reflector (4) housed inside the casing; and a transparent cover (5) closing the casing and positioned opposite the light source. The reflector is defined by a ring (20) made of material pervious to light, and constituting an internal-reflection lens. And the ring is bounded by a front surface (21) facing the transparent cover and located inside the casing, on the opposite side to the light source; by an inner lateral surface (22), e.g. defining a geometrical figure of revolution having an axis of symmetry (A) defining an optical axis of the lighting device, along which the light source is located; and by an outer lateral surface (23) which is concentric with the inner lateral surface, defines with the inner lateral surface an interface bounding the internal-reflection lens defined by the ring, and includes at least one inclined surface (24) forming such an angle with the optical axis that the light rays inside the internal-reflection lens defined by the ring (20) are reflected totally onto the front surface (21). <IMAGE>
IPC 8 full level
F21V 5/00 (2006.01); F21V 7/00 (2006.01); F21W 101/10 (2006.01); F21W 101/14 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
F21S 41/322 (2017.12); F21V 7/0091 (2013.01)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE FR IT
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 1500872 A2 20050126; EP 1500872 A3 20050720; EP 1500872 B1 20070905; DE 602004008708 D1 20071018; DE 602004008708 T2 20080612; IT TO20030583 A1 20050126
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 04103552 A 20040723; DE 602004008708 T 20040723; IT TO20030583 A 20030725