Signaling lamps for motor vehicle

摘要

An optical device is incorporated into an external part of a motor vehicle and comprises at least one sub-assembly including a light curtain or light curtain plus light guide and, on either side thereof, transparent plates each of which has at least one part being transparent and at least one other part being semi-transparent. At least one light source is connected to an electric source and emits rays of light that spread in a thickness of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide. The sub-assembly and light source are incorporated into a housing, and the optical device collaborates with at least one lamp incorporated into a body-shell of the vehicle or LED on a suitable plate included in a sub-housing incorporated into the housing and emits rays of light through at least a portion of the light curtain or light curtain plus light guide that is transparent.

主权项

1. The optical device incorporated into an external part of a motor vehicle the optical device comprising:
at least one sub-assembly including either of a light curtain and a light curtain plus light guide and, on either side thereof, a plurality of substantially transparent plates each of which has at least one part being substantially transparent and at least one other part being semi-transparent; at least one light source that is connected to an electric source and emits rays of light that spread in a thickness of either of the light curtain and the light curtain plus light guide, wherein the sub-assembly and light source are incorporated into a housing and the optical device collaborates with at least one either of a lamp incorporated into a body-shell of the motor vehicle and an LED on a suitable plate included in a sub-housing that is incorporated into the housing and emits rays of light through at least a portion of either of the light curtain and the light curtain plus light guide that is substantially transparent; and wherein either of the light curtain is and the light curtain plus light guide are disposed between two walls that are the respective transparent plates being, in certain chosen zones, either of substantially transparent and semi-transparent in a case of an outer plate and any of substantially transparent, semi-transparent, and mirror-finish in the case of an inner plate, which has an unsilvered zone so that the lamp situated behind the inner plate in a luggage compartment is visible and the zone is illuminated.