US 12,304,312 B2
Lighting device and display panel
Yoshinori Masatsugu, Kiyosu (JP); and Yusuke Ueshima, Kiyosu (JP)
Assigned to TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Aichi-pref. (JP)
Filed by TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Kiyosu (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/145,074.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-030472 (JP), filed on Feb. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0271502 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 35/60 (2024.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60Q 3/10 (2017.01)
CPC B60K 35/60 (2024.01) [B60Q 3/10 (2017.02); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 2360/162 (2024.01); B60K 2360/175 (2024.01); B60K 2360/60 (2024.01); B60Q 2500/20 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lighting device comprising:
a plurality of light sources;
a display panel located on a front side of the light sources; and
a light-blocking case portion storing each light source in a state in which a light path of the light source directed toward the front side is opened, wherein
the display panel has a layered structure including a transparent base layer, a decorative layer located on the front side relative to the transparent base layer, and a blocking layer located on a back side relative to the transparent base layer,
the decorative layer has a general decorative portion, and a plurality of display decorative portions each located on the front side of the corresponding light source,
each of the plurality of display decorative portions covers a front side of the transparent base layer and is comprised of material having a higher light transmittance than the general decorative portion,
the blocking layer has a general blocking portion, and a plurality of display blocking portions each opposed to the paired display decorative portion and having a higher light transmittance than the general blocking portion,
in a projection view when projected in a front-back direction, a blocking outer-edge portion which is at least a part of an outer edge of each display blocking portion is located on a radially outer side relative to a decorative outer-edge portion which is an outer edge of the paired display decorative portion, and
a relationship among a thickness t of the transparent base layer, a refractive angle θ2 of the transparent base layer, and a radial-direction distance x between the blocking outer-edge portion and the decorative outer-edge portion, satisfies x=t×tan θ2.