FIBER OPTIC LIGHTING SYSTEM USING CONVENTIONAL HEADLAMP STRUCTURES

摘要

FIBER OPTIC LIGHTING SYSTEM USING CONVENTIONAL HEADLAMP STRUCTURES A lighting system particularly suited for an automotive application in which it is desired to utilize a central light source and couple the light output therefrom to a headlamp assembly having a number of conventional components includes introducing an output and of a light guide to the reflector assembly in place of an incandescent lamp, and disposing a mirror at the output end of the light guide to reflect light onto a conventional parabolic reflector. The mirror is preferably planar and serves to direct the light from the output end of the light guide to the parabolic reflector for collimation thereby and subsequent passage through a conventional lens member.