Abstract: A third brake light attachable to behind the rear windshield of an automobile which comprises generally a lamp shade having a visor and reflector on the fore side, an opening on a corner of an arcuate rear housing and a lug means on the bottom for pivotally securing to a roughly cone shaped stand and a cover for removably closing the opening having an attachment member thereof for the disposition of a lamp receptacle therein. The improvement of this disclosure has been characterized in the releasable structure of the removable components thereof and the removable cover in particular that facilitates a ready replacement of a electric bulb from therein when the bulb is burned out.

Abstract: A stoplight system that includes a light source for providing a light output, and an array of non-overlapping lenslets comprised of first lenslets and second lenslets, each first lenslet configured to refract a portion of the light output of the light source into a first predetermined angular field comprising a central angular region having vertical and horizontal extent, and each second lenslet configured to refract a portion of the light output of the light source into a second predetermined angular field comprising first and second peripheral angular regions that are horizontally on either side of the central angular region, whereby the portions of the light output of the light source that are refracted by the first and second lenslets form stoplight illumination.

Abstract: A night light and pacifier holding system for holding a plurality of decorative pacifiers therein in aligned positions. A hollow base in the form of elliptical dish shaped upper and lower portions are secured together with a light source having a diffuser therein. A substantially flat base of the system is capable of supporting the system on a flat surface. The upper surface of the upper portion of the system includes a plurality of openings formed therein with guiding and securing pins formed adjacent each of the openings in order that pacifiers having decorative shaped heads may be inserted in the openings and held in aligned positions by holes formed in each of the pacifiers captured in the pins. The pacifiers are formed from a luminescent material which may be recharged from the light source within the hollow base when held in the openings.

Abstract: A windshield visor which has a visor frame, a plurality of running lights formed on the visor frame, a translucent insert which fits within the visor frame, bonding member positioned between the translucent insert and the visor frame, and which preferably has the translucent visor insert in conforming relationship to the visor frame structure, and fitting wholly over all fastening means. In a preferred embodiment, the visor frame is a multicomponent, hollow monocoque frame.

Abstract: A children's Christmas Stocking device useful for visually signalling the arrival of Santa Claus by illuminating an externally visable light source having a power source located within said device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing automobile theft which includes structure for rendering the front windshield, or all the windows of the automobile, opaque. The opaqueness may be caused either by mechanical means, or alternatively, by utilizing liquid crystals or similar media, energized by electric fields.

Abstract: A holographic center high mounted stoplight system that includes a light source for providing a nearly collimated beam, an expanding lens responsive to the nearly collimated beam for providing a diverging or converging reconstruction beam, and a stoplight hologram responsive to the expanding beam for producing stoplight illumination. Also disclosed is a holographic center high mounted stoplight system that includes a light source for providing a nearly collimated beam, a light bending hologram for providing a diffracted near collimated beam, and an expanding stoplight lens array responsive to the diffracted near collimated beam for providing non-collimated stoplight illumination.

Abstract: A photo-coupled control apparatus for vehicle auxiliary lighting system comprises a combination of a photo coupling set. The set includes a control light emitter assembly and a control light sensor assembly. The control light emitter assembly is attached to the interior surface of the windshield of the vehicle, and has a light emitting device for emitting light signals. The control light sensor assembly is attached to the exterior surface of the windshield at a location opposite the location of the control light emitter assembly across the windshield, and has a light sensing device for receiving the light signals emitted by the light emitting device of the control light emitter assembly. A switch is connected to an electrical power source for providing electric power to the light emitting device of the control light emitter assembly when the switch is turned on for emitting the light signals.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a lighting device body, a light source placed within the lighting device body, a lens mounted in the front opening of the lighting device body, and a hologram attached to at least one specific area on the lens. At least part of light emitted from the light source is refracted by the hologram and a holographic image recorded in the hologram 16 is reproduced. A desired pattern is recorded is recorded in the form of a holographic image in the hologram. Visual presentation and light distribution characteristics, like those a conventional lighting device having a pattern of lens steps physically formed in the lens surface, can be obtained without additional optical parts.

Abstract: A rear window structure with an alarm lamp for a vehicle has a gasket to be attached to a rear frame in a vehicle body, a rear window glass sheet, and a holder provided with a glass sheet fitting portion and an alarm lamp holding portion, wherein the holder is provided between the gasket and a peripheral edge portion of the glass sheet; the holder is firmly secured by fitting the glass sheet to the glass sheet fitting portion; the alarm lamp holding portion opens to the backward of the vehicle body; and an alarm lamp is held by the alarm lamp holding portion.

Abstract: An optical fiber illumination device is disclosed. The optical fiber illumination device includes at least one optical fiber cable, one or more light sources for introducing light into the optical fiber cable, a lens through which light from each light source passes prior to entering the optical fiber cable for producing a colored light, electrical circuitry for energizing the light source, and a housing for containing the circuitry and the light source. A first light source is energized by a first power source. Light emitted from the first light source passes through a first lens which possesses a desire filtering characteristic. Upon application of the second power source, a first control device disable the first light source. Moreover, the second power source may energize a second light source which passes through a second lens having a filtering characteristic distinct from that of the first lens. Upon application of a third power source, a second control device disables the first control device.

Abstract: A detachable window ornament that includes a plurality of light sources inside a plenum formed from an opaque rear wall, a continuous side wall extending about it, and a front, translucent panel. Attached to the side walls are a number of suction cups that allow the device to be removably attached to the window. The front panel can carry a variety of different ornamental displays, such as those relating to a specific holiday, or the like. Additionally, it is contemplated that the device could be attached to one of the windows of an automobile.

Abstract: A new and improved vehicle warning system for warning on-coming motorists of an important road condition such as a police checkpoint or an accident ahead of them, and the approximate distance to the road condition, by use of a visual signalling device attached inside the windshield of the signaller's vehicle, the vehicle warning system comprising an electrical circuit assembly having a plurality of front-facing different colored annunciator lamps thereon, the circuit assembly also having rear facing switch means for activating or deactivating one or more of the annunciator lamps, an enclosure for housing the circuit assembly, a clamp for removedly securely attaching the enclosure to a vehicle's inside rear-view mirror so the lamps are visible to oncoming vehicles through the windshield, and a source of electrical energy to power the lamps.

Abstract: A holographic center high mounted stoplight (CHMSL) system for a vehicle having a rear window. The CHMSL system includes a stoplight hologram secured adjacent the rear window, a playback illumination source for providing along a source optical axis a vertically converging beam that converges to a horizontal line focus, and a thick concave/convex lens responsive to the vertically converging beam for (1) controlling the vertically converging beam to converge to a line focus that is within said lens and further from the illumination source than such line focus would be without the lens and (2) providing an output beam along an output axis that is tilted upwardly relative to the source optical axis.

Abstract: A holographic center high mounted stop light (CHMSL) employing a linear lamp source comprising a long and narrow cylindrical gas discharge bulb, a non-imaging light concentrator cavity, a plastic light guide and a hologram. The CHMSL is characterized by previously unattainable compactness, weight savings, rear occupant headroom, driver rearward visibility, and electrical efficiency.

Abstract: A holographic display apparatus reconstructs an image by projecting a beam of a luminous source to a holographic sheet including a plurality of holograms. The holograms are arranged so that the central axes of images recorded in the holographic sheet are directed in a same direction, in the diverging direction, or in a converging direction. Additionally, each hologram has a first focal distance f1 (mm) and a second focal distance f2 (mm) which are in a relationship such that f1.ltoreq.f2/28+50 and f1<f2.

Abstract: A signalling light for mounting on a back shelf of a motor vehicle, and for being covered by a cap or the like, the light comprising a box that is open towards the back window of the vehicle and that contains a filament bulb that extends from one side of said box into said box, the box being closed adjacent to the back window of the vehicle by a closure glass. According to the invention said box includes a removable portion having a cross-section that is substantially U-shaped and that forms a heat screen between the filament bulb and the cap, said removable portion constituting an access hatch giving access to the bulb. The light is suitable for mounting on the back shelf of a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A method of reducing the resistance of a sleeping mammal to arising at a preselected wake up time by exposing the mammal to at least one source of artificial light for a period of exposure of at least about 0.5 hour and no longer than about 8 hours before the preselected wake up time. The intensity of the artificial light may increase during the period of exposure. an apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a normally deacutated source of artificial light capable of illuminating a mammal, comprising a plurality of electric lamps, a control device, such as a timer, for signalling the commencement of a period of exposure preceding the mammal's preselected wake up time and an increase in illumination intensity during the period of exposure, after its commencement. The apparatus further features circuitry and a power supply, responsive to the control device, for actuating one lamp in response to the commencement signal, and for actuating additional lamps later during the period of exposure.

Abstract: A hood for mounting a unidirectional lamp adjacent a window, such as a windshield, of an emergency vehicle and within a passenger compartment of the vehicle for directing light through the window. The lamp includes a housing having a forward portion defining an opening therein, a light source within the housing, and a lamp lens adjacent the forward portion of the housing and covering at least a portion of the opening for directing light from the light source through the opening. The hood comprising a hood body mountable adjacent the window having a rearward end defining a first open port dimensioned for receiving the forward portion of the housing, a forward end defining a second port opposite the first port, and a light pathway between the first and second ports for transmission of a beam of light from the light source through the body. A hood lens is within the body for optically altering the beam of light transmitted along the light pathway.

Abstract: A vehicle warning light assembly includes an elongated hollow casing having an open front, a lamp unit extending longitudinally between two sides of the casing adjacent to the open front, a wheel member that is mounted rotatably in the casing on one of the two sides of the casing, an elongated reflector plate which is disposed in the casing on one side of the lamp unit and which has one end secured to the wheel member, a driving mechanism which is activatable to rotate the wheel member to rotate correspondingly the reflector plate around the lamp unit, and a transparent pane that is mounted on the casing at the open front of the casing.

Abstract: A high-mount stoplight which comprises a hook portion provided on either end of a light source board and a hook receiver portion provided in a holder cap, so that when the holder cap is fittingly mounted into a cylindrical housing, the hook portion is engagingly mounted to the hook receiver portion, thereby preventing the holder cap from falling out of the housing even before the stoplight is mounted to the body.

Abstract: A new and improved automobile locator apparatus includes a base member adapted to fit onto a top edge of an automobile window, an identifier element, and an adjustable assembly, connected between the base member and the identifier element, for orienting the identifier element with respect to the base member at a variety of selectable orientations. The adjustable orientation assembly includes a first element containing a first uneven surface connected to the base member and a second element containing a second uneven surface connected to the identifier element. A spring urges the first element and the second element together when a selected orientation of the identifier element with respect to the base member has been made. The identifier element may be an internally illuminated flat panel that employs fiber optics. Indicia are placed on top of the internally illuminated flat panel element to provide for specific identification information.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to an electro-luminescent strip that is placed on or integrally molded with a standard windshield wiper arm. Electro-luminescent strip is attached to housing which is placed on wiper arm by a strap, by a clip, by adhesive, or integrally molded into wiper arm. Power for electroluminescent strip is provided by an automobile battery. Power from the battery is first run through an inverter to translate the DC current into AC current. Electro-luminescent strip can also be placed into recess in wiper arm.

Abstract: A light arrangement in the form of a center high mounted brakelight is shown. A surface light source disposed below a rear window of the vehicle and includes a plurality of diverging light sources, each emitting a diverging light for interference with a hologram assembly affixed to the inner surface of the rear window. The hologram assembly includes a plurality of holograms which were produced by holography by exposure to a converging beam from the area where the surface light source is arranged after mounting said hologram assembly in the vehicle.

Abstract: A horizontally elongated lamp body of a supplemental high mounted stop lamp is fastened to the rear windowpane of a motor vehicle with looseness in the longitudinal direction of the lamp body relative to the windowpane. Molded from a plastic, the lamp body is therefore capable of thermal expansion or contraction in its longitudinal direction without the danger of detachment from the windowpane.

Abstract: Disclosed is a distress signal lamp assembly including a mounting base, which has a clamping frame and vacuum mounts for mounting on either door window or any smooth surface of an automobile alternatively, a cylindrical casing fastened to a top socket on the mounting base, a retractable tube made to slide in and out of the cylindrical casing, and a lamp head fastened to the retractable tube by a toggle joint.

Abstract: A pressure increasing and warning aid for coupling to an automobile windshield wiper is provided. The device includes an opaque longitudinally extended wind pressure blade having a streamlined contour, and an illumination assembly disposed lengthwise therein. The light source of the illumination assembly is connected to the windshield wiper circuit. On a rainy day, as the windshield wiper operates, the wind pressure blade will be influenced by wind pressure, and will add to the wiper's action pressure, while simultaneously the illumination assembly will forwardly direct warning lights to other vehicles.

Abstract: A pair of conductive patterns, which are to be electrically connected to the battery of a motor vehicle, are formed as by baking on the interior surface of the rear windowpane of the vehicle. A pair of nuts or brackets of electrically conductive material are soldered to the conductive patterns. The lamp body of a supplemental high mounted stop lamp are fastened to the nuts or brackets, with the light sources of the lamp electrically connected in circuit therewith.

Abstract: A brake light assembly in the form of a rectangularly shaped housing is adapted to be mounted on the inside surface of the front windshield of an automobile or similar vehicle. The assembly includes a reflective lens facing forward, a series of lamps configured in a column and mounted within the housing behind the lens, a power cord for attachment to the vehicle's conventional brake light circuit, and a pair of suction cups for affixing the assembly to the inside surface of the vehicle windshield. In an alternative arrangement, a flexible rim is provided on the anterior of the housing for blocking light leaks which might interfere with the driver's normal vision, and which furthermore, includes an activatable adhesive for affixing the housing rim to the inside surface of the windshield.

Abstract: A high-mounted brake lamp is provided which can be conveniently installed in a vehicle prior to the installation of the vehicle's rear window and which can be easily and quickly adjusted, without the need for installation tools, to ensure that the brake lamp is firmly secured against the rear window after the rear window has been installed, due to a ratcheting mechanism which allows slidable movement towards the rear window only. In this manner, the brake lamp is firmly locked into the correct position.

Abstract: A rear window stop lamp for a motor vehicle, which is energizable when the brake of the motor vehicle is applied, has a resin-molded body attached to the interior side of a rear window glass sheet. The resin-molded body has at least one cavity having a curved reflecting surface. An LED chip is disposed in the cavity substantially at a focal point of the curved reflecting surface. A transparent resin-molded body surrounds the LED chip. A light distribution lens plate covers an opening of the cavity for directing rearwardly a light beam emitted from the LED chip and reflected by the curved reflecting surface. The light distribution lens plate comprises a Fresnel lens. A printed electric wire board is embedded in the resin-molded body for energizing LED units. The printed electric wire board is made of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion which is closer to that of the rear window glass sheet than to that of the resin-molded body.

Abstract: An inexpensive approach to identify automobile 3rd brake lamp failures by drilling 2 holes, 1 in the reflector, and 1 in the outer housing, then covering the inner portion of hole in the outer body with a red plastic lens to allow the flowing filament to shine thru the outer body, thereby allowing the driver to detect 3rd brake lamp malfunction by observing the housing assembly in the rear view mirror.

Abstract: A vehicle wind screen light assembly for use on a vehicle disposed in the field of view of the driver. This assembly includes, an auxiliary support member, such as a wind screen or bug deflector, mounted on the vehicle. A plurality of light signal units are supported by the auxiliary support member in a spaced apart arrangement in the field of view of a driver. A wiring subassembly connects the light signal units to respective light signal circuits.

Abstract: A stop light for a vehicle mounted within the vehicle for flashing in synchronism with a brake comprises a light source arranged within the vehicle. A prism is so arranged as to feed a display light from the light source rearward of the vehicle. Further, the prism is so arranged that a driver can confirm a road surface at a rear location of the vehicle through the prism from a field of view of a back mirror. The prism may be formed into such a configuration that a surface thereof adjacent to the light source scatters a light from the light source. Moreover, the light source may be formed by a red light source.

Abstract: A vehicle rear signal light assembly (16) of the high mounted type is mounted within a rear roof header (18) of a roof panel (12) to shine a light signal from a source (40) through a lens (38) aligned with an opening (36) in an obscuration band (34) of an upper rear window edge portion (28) covering an outwardly opening flanged construction of the roof header. The signal light assembly (16) by utilizing existing vehicle structure does not intrude into the interior space of the occupant compartment either at its storage shelf or its headroom. Different embodiments of the signal light assembly (16,16a,16b) provide a brake signal, turn signals, and both brake and turn signals. The light source (40) may be either an electric bulb that shines through a lens (38) or one or more light emitting diodes (56) that shine through the lens which is aligned with the opening (36) in the obscuration band (40) through which the signal shines.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement for a vehicle lamp housing which includes an integral hold-down member having a lock arm cooperating with a pawl formed on a support panel and also having a contact foot insertable into a slot adjacent the pawl for locking the lamp housing to the support panel.

Abstract: A lamp arrangement for a motor vehicle comprises a light source including a plurality of bulbs and arranged in a rear shelf panel, and a transmission hologram mounted on a rear window on the cabin side thereof. The transmission hologram includes a plurality of divisions which have different diffraction characteristics from each other. Almost all incident lights from the light source are diffracted by any of the divisions rearward of the vehicle.

Abstract: A visual display device (10) is especially suited for use as a center-high-mounted stop-light (CHMSL) for an automobile rear window which slants downwardly from the horizontal by a small angle. The device (10) includes a linear light source (12) which preferably emits red light. A display panel (14) has a light receiving edge (14a) extending parallel and adjacent to the light source (12) and first and second opposing surfaces (14b, 14c). The second surface (14b) slants toward the first surface (14c) in a direction away from the edge (14a) and is formed with steps (14d) having walls (14e) which are angled toward the edge (14a) such that the peak output light propagating through the display panel (14) from the edge (14a) is refracted horizontally out of the panel (14). The walls (14e) of the steps (14d) are formed with laterally spaced depressions (14f) for lateral dispersion of light.

Abstract: The apparatus is a modular medical lighting system which includes a ceiling-mounted reading light module, examination light module, ambient light module, and a night light module. The reading light is directed toward a selected reading area on a hospital bed directly below the medical lighting system. The examination light illuminates the entire top surface of the hospital bed. The ambient light directs light to a wall abutting the head of the hospital bed thereby providing reflected light to the vicinity of the hospital bed. The night light directs light to a selected side of the bed so as to light a nurse's medical chart clipboard without disturbing the patient. The modules may be provided separately or in combination.

Abstract: A crib light is provided having front and rear housing portions which cooperate to clamp the light to a horizontal rail of a crib. The rear housing portion may be removed to permit the front housing portion to be mounted flush to a vertical wall surface. In addition, a lens cover is provided adjacent to a light emitting aperture of the front housing portion for controlling the brightness of light emitted and a control circuit is further provided for automatically shutting the light off after a predetermined interval of time.

Abstract: An auxiliary brake lamp for motor vehicles comprises a holder which includes a track (7) which has a double-T-shape in cross section and which is adherable to a rear window. A lamp housing (2) is engagingly shoved onto the holder. A holding spring (5) arranged in the lamp housing clamps a first flange of the double-T-track between it and the housing. An electrical coupling of the lamp to a vehicle power supply is provided by a flat plug engagement device (12). That is, the double-T-track is electrically coupled with a current source of the motor vehicle and the holding spring is electrically coupled with a light bulb (17) of the lamp. A contact plate formed as a flat lug (11) as part of the first flange of the double-T-track produces a conductive coupling between the lamp and the holder by sliding contact on the holding spring.

Abstract: A truck mounted visor (1) containing a plurality of illumination sources (7, 8, 9, 11, 12). The illumination sources are flush mounted within the visor leading edge (6). Each light (7, 8, 9, 11, 12) is mounted within a cavity (26), and includes a bulb (13), socket (14) and mounting bracket (15).

Abstract: A brake-light/hazard-warning board structure includes a first bar, a second bar, a third bar each having a pivot member at distal ends thereof, and three connecting units for connecting pivot member of said first, second, and third bars and providing a pivotal relationship therebetween. A slot is formed in one of the pivot member and the connnecting unit for receiving a suction cup by which said brake-light/hazard-warning board structure is releasably mounted to a vehicle when used as a brake light. A number of light emitting diodes are provided on the first, second, and third bars and are electrically connected in series, with two terminals electrically connected with a power source.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an auxiliary stop lamp which is mounted internally of a rear window of a vehicle so as to illuminate the back of the vehicle, characterized in that the auxiliary stop lamp comprises a cylindrical housing in teh form of a transparent flexible member having opening at both ends thereof, side lids mounted on the respective openings of the housing, said side lids each having a base plate mounting portion on the inner surface side of the housing, and an LED mounting base plate formed from a flexible member mounted on the base plate mounting portion of the side lid.

Abstract: A holographic stoplight for a vehicle including a stoplight hologram, a source of playback illumination, and a transparent prism for supporting the stoplight hologram and for guiding the playback illumination to the stoplight hologram. The prism with the stoplight hologram is mounted in front of the rear window of a vehicle with the light source beneath the surface of the rear panel that is adjacent the rear window.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a light fixture provided internally of a compartment of a vehicle close to a rear window. The lighting fixture comprises a cylindrical housing, a base plate holder, and an LED base plate. The housing is formed from a flexible member. A suitable number of antivibration members are engaged within the LED base plate.

Abstract: The apparatus is a modular medical lighting system which includes a ceiling-mounted reading light module, examination light module and ambient light module. The reading light is directed toward a selected reading area on a hospital bed directly below the medical lighting system. The examination light illuminates the entire top surface of the hospital bed. The ambient light directs light to a wall abutting the head of the hospital bed thereby providing reflected light to the vicinity of the hospital bed. The modules may be provided separately or in combination.

Abstract: A method of reducing the resistance of a sleeping mammal to arising at a preselected wake up time by exposing the mammal to at least one source of artificial light for a period of exposure of at least about 0.5 hour and no longer than about 8 hours before the preselected wake up time. The intensity of the artificial light may increase during the period of exposure. An apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a normally deactuated source of artificial light capable of illuminating a mammal, comprising a plurality of electric lamps, a control device, such as a timer, for signalling the commencement of a period of exposure preceding the mammal's preselected wake up time and an increase in illumination intensity during the period of exposure, after its commencement. The apparatus further features circuitry and a power supply, responsive to the control device, for actuating one lamp in response to the commencement signal, and for actuating additional lamps later during the period of exposure.

Abstract: An automobile signal lamp of the type including a light source disposed in a lamp space which is elongated in left and right directions and of a reduced size in vertical directions. A top wall portion and a bottom wall portion constituting the lamp space are formed of synthetic resin material respectively, and are curved in the same direction in the vertical directions, or as viewed in the front view.

Abstract: A vehicle windshield wiper and headlight control that only allows operation of the windshield wipers when the headlights are ON has a wiper control switch and a headlight switch connected to a battery, wiper motor, and headlights. The headlight switch has a pair of switches that are concurrently closed with a movable actuator so that the wiper motor only operates when the headlights are ON. An indicator light is associated with the headlight switch to advise the vehicle operator that the headlights must be ON before the windshield wipers can be operated.