JP3112580B2 - Safety improvement lamp - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a safety improvement lamp provided for clarifying the existence of a vehicle relative to another vehicle during parking at night and preventing a collision accident or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional means for clarifying the existence of a vehicle when parking at night, for example, a parking light or a hazard lamp is used.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional means, it is required that these lamps are provided, for example, in a left-right contrast with respect to the center line of the vehicle.
In addition, the power consumption of the light source to be used is defined,
As specified by vehicle certification standards, the power consumption when lighting is relatively large, causing long-term continuous lighting to cause concerns such as over-discharging of the battery. Lighting is hardly enforced due to the above-mentioned concerns when anticipated, etc., and therefore, in practice, it is very difficult to confirm a parked vehicle at night, which causes a problem in ensuring safety. Had become an issue.

[0004]

According to the present invention, as a specific means for solving the above-mentioned conventional problems, a state in which a door mirror provided on the center of a road and which can be folded is folded. The present invention provides a safety improvement lamp characterized in that an LED lamp having an irradiation direction of the front and rear of the vehicle is provided, and the LED lamp is turned on by folding the door mirror. To reduce the risk of overdischarging of the battery even when the lamp is turned on for a long time, and to simplify the handling to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems.

[0005]

Next, the present invention will be described in detail based on an embodiment shown in the drawings. 1 and 2 is a safety improvement lamp, which is provided on a foldable door mirror 11 provided as a standard equipment in a vehicle 10 (FIG. 1). Reference) LED lamp 2, LED lamp 3, and these LED lamp 2, LED
A switch 5 for turning on the lamp 3 is provided, and the side on which the switch 3 is mounted is attached to the door mirror 11 located at the center of the road, that is, in the case of left-hand traffic, the door mirror 11 on the right side as viewed from the driver's seat. It is supposed to be attached.

The LED lamps 2 and 3 are mounted on a housing 11a of a door mirror 11 with a pair of LED lamps 2 and 3, as shown in FIG. The irradiation direction 3 is directed toward the front and rear of the automobile 10 when the door mirror 11 is folded. In the following description, the front irradiation side is L
The ED lamp 2 and the LED that illuminates the rear will be described as an LED lamp 3. Therefore, what is shown in FIG. 1 is an LED lamp 3 that illuminates the rear.

FIG. 3 shows the irradiation directions of the LED lamp 2 and the LED lamp 3 in more detail. When the door mirror 11 is folded, the vehicle 10 The LED lamp 2 illuminating the front is approximately 5 ° with respect to the axis X of the automobile 10.
The irradiation direction α is set so as to be directed outward, and the LED lamp 3 that irradiates the rear is aligned with the axis X of the automobile 10.
The irradiation direction β is set so as to be directed outward by about 2 °, and optimal visibility is given to another vehicle approaching from each direction.

Here, each of the LED lamp 2 and the LED lamp 3 uses the LED light emitting element 4 as a light source (see FIG. 2), and the current consumption during lighting is typically 3
0 mA or less, and the power consumption when the vehicle 10 is turned on with the power supply voltage of the automobile 10 is about 300 mW. Is not affected.

At this time, the LED light emitting element 4 is supplied to the market as a high-brightness LED.
If a device having a light emission amount of 0 to 1000 millicandelas is adopted and the half angle of the light amount is set to about ± 5 °, 30 to 1
It is possible to view the object from the front (or the rear) at a distance of 00 m, and a necessary and sufficient viewing distance can be obtained for this kind of purpose.

The door mirror 11 is provided with a switch 5 (see FIG. 1) by using, for example, a folding function 11b and employing, for example, a limit switch. And the LED lamp 3 are both turned on,
When the door mirror 11 is in the use position, the light is turned off.

Next, the operation and effect of the present invention having the above-described structure will be described. For example, when parking is performed on the shoulder of a road and the parking is performed at night or when it is expected that the parking will be performed at night, driving is performed. When the person leaves the automobile 10 with the door mirror 11 folded as usual, the safety improvement lamp 1 emits light in a predetermined direction from that point onward and approaches. It notifies other vehicles of the existence of the vehicle.

At this time, as described above, the safety improvement lamp 1 is provided only on the required side on the center of the road, and the LED lamps 2 and 3 use the LED as the light source.
Since the light emitting element 4 has extremely low power consumption, even if the lighting is continued throughout the night,
It does not have any effect on the starting characteristics of the self-motor in the next morning, etc., and can be used without any concern as a driver.

At this time, when parking is performed in a place where the possibility of collision of another vehicle such as a garage or a parking lot is not considered, the switch 5 does not operate unless the door mirror 11 is folded. The lighting of the LED lamps 2 and 3 is not performed, and therefore, in such a state, unnecessary power consumption is not performed.

In the actual implementation of the present invention, if the LED lamps 2 and 3 are provided with a flashing function that flashes at a predetermined interval, the flashing operation alerts the driver to visual attention from other vehicles. It is possible to further improve the performance and at the same time reduce the power consumption, and to obtain more preferable actions and effects for the purpose of the present invention. It is also possible to incorporate an automatic blinker that is turned on when the ambient illuminance becomes equal to or less than a prescribed brightness, and to stop the lighting in the daytime to reduce power consumption.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, an LED having a foldable door mirror provided at the center of a road and having the front and rear sides of a vehicle illuminated with the door mirror folded is provided. Lamps are provided respectively,
The safety enhancement lamp is characterized in that the ED lamp is turned on by folding the door mirror, so that, for example, the driver can use the battery as an extremely low power consumption that does not affect the start of the next day. In order not to give rise to a fear of electric discharge, lighting is to be performed at the time of parking at night, which is extremely effective in improving safety such as preventing a rear-end collision.

[0016] In addition, since the light is turned on by folding the door mirror, the light is turned on by a routine operation of the driver during parking on the road or the like, thereby simplifying the operation. As a result, the above effects can be more reliably achieved by ensuring that the lighting is performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of a safety improvement lamp according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing irradiation directions in the same embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Safety improvement lamp 2, 3 ... LED lamp 4 ... LED light emitting element 5 ... Switch 10 Car 11 Door mirror α, β ... Irradiation direction

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A foldable door mirror provided on the center side of a road and provided with LED lamps which respectively illuminate the front and rear of the automobile with the door mirror being folded, wherein the LED lamps are provided. A safety improvement lamp, which is turned on by folding the door mirror.