US 12,292,170 B2
Illumination device for vehicles
Ansgar Gollnick, Paderborn (DE); and Giuseppe Mattina, Lippstadt (DE)
Assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed by HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, Lippstadt (DE)
Filed on May 10, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/661,184.
Application 18/661,184 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2022/080957, filed on Nov. 7, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 129 266.2 (DE), filed on Nov. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0295299 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
Int. Cl. F21S 41/24 (2018.01); F21S 41/20 (2018.01)
CPC F21S 41/24 (2018.01) [F21S 41/2805 (2024.05)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An illumination device for a vehicle, the illumination device comprising:
a housing;
a cover lens that closes an opening formed in the housing;
an elongate light guide;
a light source to couple in light into the elongate light guide;
a receptacle to receive the elongate light guide; and
an outcoupler to couple out the light coupled into the elongate light guide, the outcoupler being arranged along part of a lateral surface of the elongate light guide,
wherein the receptacle runs along an edge section of the cover lens so that a position light is produced, and
wherein at least two diffusing optics elements are arranged on an inside and/or an outside of only the edge section of the cover lens, such that, in a main emission direction of the illumination device, the at least two diffusing optics elements are arranged downstream of the elongate light guide.