US 12,269,391 B2
Vehicle light fitting, radar module, radar, and vehicle
Yoshihiro Katsurada, Shizuoka (JP); Yuta Maruyama, Shizuoka (JP); Osamu Kuboyama, Shizuoka (JP); Akihito Horikawa, Shizuoka (JP); Kosei Kikuchi, Shizuoka (JP); and Yuichi Watano, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/526,622.
Application 18/526,622 is a division of application No. 17/642,135, granted, now 11,878,622, previously published as PCT/JP2020/034129, filed on Sep. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-164750 (JP), filed on Sep. 10, 2019; application No. 2019-183068 (JP), filed on Oct. 3, 2019; application No. 2019-183069 (JP), filed on Oct. 3, 2019; application No. 2019-183070 (JP), filed on Oct. 3, 2019; application No. 2019-186787 (JP), filed on Oct. 10, 2019; application No. 2019-206320 (JP), filed on Nov. 14, 2019; application No. 2019-206321 (JP), filed on Nov. 14, 2019; application No. 2019-207074 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2019; application No. 2019-216675 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2019; and application No. 2020-088267 (JP), filed on May 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0109473 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/00 (2006.01); F21S 43/14 (2018.01); F21S 43/242 (2018.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); H01Q 1/32 (2006.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC B60Q 1/0023 (2013.01) [F21S 43/14 (2018.01); F21S 43/242 (2018.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); H01Q 1/3283 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08); G01S 2013/93277 (2020.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radar module to be mounted on a vehicle lamp including a lamp housing, a lamp cover that covers an opening of the lamp housing, and an illumination unit disposed in a lamp chamber formed by the lamp housing and the lamp cover, the radar module comprising:
a radar configured to acquire radar data indicating a surrounding environment of a vehicle by emitting radio waves to the outside of the vehicle;
a light guide member that is disposed in a manner of facing the radar so as to hide the radar from the outside of the vehicle and configured to transmit the radio waves emitted from the radar; and
a support member that is fixed to the light guide member and supports the radar,
wherein the light guide member is configured to emit light toward the outside of the vehicle;
wherein the radar, the light guide member and the support member are disposed outside the lamp chamber.