A vehicle window for separating a vehicle interior from outer surroundings, includes glass pane with a light guide body made of glass on a region of the interior-side surface of the glass pane, wherein the surface of the light guide body facing the glass pane and the surface facing away from the glass pane enclose a wedge angle such that the thickness of the light guide body decreases in the direction from a lower edge to an upper edge of the glass pane, wherein the light guide body is secured to the interior-side surface of the glass pane by means of laser welding.

In various embodiments, a lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided. The lighting device includes at least one light source, and at least one layer of a lacquer embodied such that light may be coupled into the lacquer for achieving a luminous effect. Scattering particles are provided in the lacquer for output coupling of the light.

A vehicular light is provided which is capable of forming an emission pattern with a good appearance at the time of lighting. The vehicular light has a light guide body having a light guide portion and a slit that penetrates the light guide portion in its thickness direction and linearly extend along a light guide path of light rays emitted from a plurality of LED light sources and guided within the light guide portion. The slit is composed of three regions including a constant width region formed in a predetermined length range toward the distal end, a tapered width region gradually narrowing toward the distal end, and a distal end region having a distal end of a curved surface shape formed in the distal end portion of the tapered width region.

The present disclosure relates to a vehicle grille configured to be mounted to a front of a vehicle body, wherein the vehicle grille comprises a grating structure through which air is receivable into the vehicle, wherein at least a portion of said grating structure is shaped as a scannable matrix structure forming a code pattern. The present disclosure also relates to a vehicle comprising such a vehicle grille. The present disclosure further relates to a data access system which comprises such a vehicle and a remote server containing data associated with said vehicle, said data being accessible by a camera-equipped communication device, such as a mobile phone, when scanning said scannable matrix structure.

A vehicular door handle assembly includes a base portion configured to mount at a handle region of a vehicle door of a vehicle, a handle portion movable relative to the base portion, and an illumination module disposed in the handle portion. The illumination module includes a housing and an electronic circuit assembly having a light emitting diode (LED) and a circuit board with a user actuatable input disposed at a side thereof. The illumination module includes a light pipe in the housing and at least partially along the handle portion and having a light receiving end at the LED. The LED is actuated responsive at least in part to actuation by the user of the user actuatable input. Light emitted by the LED, when actuated, is received at the light receiving end of the light pipe, whereby the light pipe provides illumination at least partially along the handle portion.

Brake light systems for a vehicle including an array of lights attached to the vehicle, an accelerometer configured to measure a magnitude of deceleration of the vehicle and to transmit a deceleration signal communicating the magnitude of deceleration of the vehicle, and a controller in electronic communication with the array of lights and the accelerometer, the controller including computer executable instructions for activating one or more lights in the array of lights based on the deceleration signal received from the accelerometer, wherein the number of lights activated corresponds to the magnitude of deceleration of the vehicle. In some examples, the brake light system includes a brake pedal sensor configured to detect when a brake pedal of the vehicle is pressed and to transmit a pedal engaged signal communicating that the brake pedal has been pressed.

The lamp fitting for a vehicle includes a plurality of laser light sources, and laser light from the plurality of laser light sources is introduced into a plurality of optical systems, and is used in the plurality of optical systems. The lamp fitting for a vehicle includes: a plurality of laser light sources; one or more optical fibers; one or more optical systems which are provided in conformity with the one or more optical fibers and to which a corresponding emission end of the optical fiber among the one or more optical fibers is connected; and a plurality of optical elements which are disposed between the laser light sources and an incident end of the one or more optical fibers, and constitute an optical path guiding laser light from at least one of the laser light sources to the incident end of the one or more optical fibers.

A vehicular detection device configured to be mounted to at least one of a right or a left side of a vehicle body includes a detection unit configured to detect an object. An outermost part of the vehicular detection device in a right and left direction is flush with or more inward than an outer surface of a side surface part of the vehicle body in the right and left direction.

A fiber panel, a light module, and a method for transmitting light using the fiber panel are provided. The fiber panel includes a plurality of optical fibers; and wherein each of the optical fibers have at least one base surface, and the fibers being arranged such that the at least one base surface of each optical fiber have a common orientation with each other.

A light module, a light panel, and a method for transmitting light are provided. The light module includes a light source configured to generate a light and a fiber panel optically coupled to the light source. The fiber panel includes a plurality of optical fibers. The plurality of optical fibers are configured to define two illumination regions such that a controlled light is output from the two illumination regions in diametrically opposite directions.