ILLUMINATION DEVICE

• Main Authors: MIYAKE YOSHIYUKI, NOJIRI KAYO, SUDO KAZUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.10.2013
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; BLASTING; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMSTHEREOF; HEATING; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21Sand F21V, RELATING TO THEFORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THELIGHT EMITTED; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHERARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLEEXTERIORS; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination device capable of enhancing its design by making the best use of shape characteristics of a light-emitting element itself.SOLUTION: An illumination device 1 includes a light-emitting element 2, a wire 3 connected with the light-emitting element 2 and supplying power to the same 2, and translucent resin 4 integrally retaining the light-emitting element 2 and the wire 3. The translucent resin 4 forms an outer shape of a body of the illumination device 1 by itself, and guides light emitted from the light-emitting element 2, and emits the light from an outer surface thereof. The light-emitting element 2 as a light source seems to be floated in the translucent resin 4 since the translucent resin 4 itself retaining the light-emitting element 2 forms the outer shape of the body of the illumination device 1 in this structure, and enhanced design of the illumination device 1 can be attained by making the best use of shape characteristics of the light-emitting element 2 itself.