Illumination – Light source and modifier – Including selected wavelength modifier
Patent
1995-10-12
1999-08-03
O'Shea, Sandra
Illumination
Light source and modifier
Including selected wavelength modifier
362510, 362520, 362540, 362544, F21V 900
Patent
active
059315660
ABSTRACT:
A multilayered lens for a lamp, e.g., an automotive lamp. The lens includes a transparent, unitary, polymeric lens blank having an inner surface and an outer surface; a thin, translucent, color layer disposed on, conforming to, and bonded to the inner or outer lens blank surface; and a thin, transparent, protective coating disposed on and over-lying the color layer. The color layer includes a thermoplastic polymer film of at least one color. Optionally, the film may be patterned to include two or more colored regions and/or indicia. Also disclosed are a lamp assembly, e.g., an automotive lamp assembly including the multilayered lens and methods for fabricating the multilayered lens and the lamp assembly by heat transfer of the color layer to the lens blank from a heat transfer carrier film.
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Hopper Todd R.
Meyer William E.
O'shea Sandra
Valeo Sylvania L.L.C.
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