US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Sept. 15 for "Vehicle interior illumination lamp" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,737, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle interior illumination lamp" was invented by Takayuki Ikeda (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tetsuro Takasaki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle interior illumination lamp includes: a design panel including a light transmission portion in at least a part of a front surface side of the design panel; a light source configured to emit light toward the front surface side of the design panel; a reflector arranged at a position facing the light transmission portion of the design panel and configured to reflect light from the light source; a light guide pris...