US 12,104,761 B2
Vehicle lamp
Yoshihiro Fujiyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/559,050
Filed by Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 12, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/020085
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 4, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/244677, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-086351 (JP), filed on May 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0240770 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. F21S 41/64 (2018.01); F21S 41/25 (2018.01); F21S 41/32 (2018.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC F21S 41/645 (2018.01) [F21S 41/25 (2018.01); F21S 41/321 (2018.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle lamp comprising:
a light source configured to emit light;
a liquid crystal element configured to variably modulate a polarization state of the light emitted from the light source;
a condensing optical system configured to condense the light emitted from the light source toward the liquid crystal element;
a polarization beam splitter configured to transmit light containing one of polarized components of the light condensed by the condensing optical system toward the liquid crystal element and configured to reflect light containing the other polarized component of the light condensed by the condensing optical system toward the light source; and
a scattering and reflecting member disposed at a surrounding of the light source and configured to scatter and reflect the light reflected by the polarization beam splitter toward the condensing optical system.