Illumination – Supported by vehicle structure – Condition responsive
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-30
2007-10-30
Lauchman, Layla G. (Department: 2877)
Illumination
Supported by vehicle structure
Condition responsive
C362S509000, C362S510000, C315S077000, C359S275000, C359S601000, C359S609000, C359S614000, C340S435000, C340S500000, C340S576000, C340S901000, C340S933000, C340S938000, C340S942000, C340S944000, C382S103000, C382S104000, C348S148000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10350205
ABSTRACT:
A beam radiator that radiates visible light beams having a predetermined wavelength onto a road surface to inform drivers of other vehicles of the existence of a self-owned vehicle or to let a driver of the self-owned vehicle confirm a traveling path thereof is disposed in a front portion of a body of the self-owned vehicle. An optical filter is disposed substantially all over a windshield in front of a driver seat. The filter is designed to have a characteristic of being more permeable to light having wavelengths close to a wavelength of visible light beams radiated from the beam radiator24than to light having a wavelength different from those wavelengths. In this construction, the driver is prevented from finding it difficult to visually recognize a visible light pattern resulting from visible light beams radiated from the self-owned vehicle or another vehicle owing to sunlight or the like, and visual recognizability of the visible light pattern is enhanced.
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Lauchman Layla G.
Stock, Jr. Gordon J.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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