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Motor Vehicle Tail Lamp Assembly
United States Patent
Speedy |
Patent Number: 4,153,928
Date of Patent: May 8, 1979 |
| MOTOR VEHICLE TAIL LAMP ASSEMBLY |
| Inventor: |
Guido C. Speedy, Anderson, Ind. |
| Assignee: |
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich. |
| Appl. No.: |
855827 |
| Filed: |
Nov. 30, 1977 |
| Int. Class: |
F21V 5/04; F21V 13/00; B60Q 1/30 |
| U.S. Class: |
362/331; 362/80; 362/337; 362/367; 362/300 |
| Field of Search: |
362/297, 268, 300, 303, 362/307, 309, 311, 330, 331, 339,
360, 361, 367, 80, 337, 336 |
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References Cited
U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS |
| 1310378 |
December 1916 |
Strauss |
362/307 |
| 3487206 |
December 1969 |
Dawson et al. |
362/80 |
| 3514589 |
May 1970 |
Huber |
362/293 |
| 4041302 |
August 1977 |
Koljonen |
362/307 |
Primary Examiner- Howard A. Birmiel
Attorney, Agent, or Firm- Edward J. Biskup |
Abstract
A lens assembly for a motor vehicle tail lamp assembly that gives the latter the
appearance of a substantially black lighting unit. The lens assembly includes an inner lens and an
outer lens each of which is formed with horizontally extending V-shaped ribs with the outer lens being
made of a neutral density plastic material while the inner lens is made of a colored plastic material
and has each rib thereof consisting of a substantially horizontally oriented portion and an inclined
portion.
3 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures |
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