Patent ID: 9512996
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: F21S,F21V,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A light source unit of a semiconductor-type light source of a vehicle lighting device, comprising: a mount member; a plurality of light emitting chips of semiconductor-type light sources that are intensively mounted on the mount member, configured to radiate light from faces other than a surface on which the light emitting chips are mounted on the mount member; a control element that is mounted on the mount member, configured to control light emission of the light emitting chips; a wiring element that is mounted on the mount member, configured to supply power to the light emitting chips via the control element; a bank member that is mounted on the mount member, surrounding all of the plurality of the light emitting chips and a part of a wiring element, and having a flat inner circumferential face extending from a surface of the mount member, in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the mount member, to a top of the bank member; and an optically transmissible sealing member that is injected into the bank member, sealing all of the plurality of the light emitting chips and a part of the wiring element, wherein, the bank member and the mount member are formed as separate members, the mount member is provided with a positioning through hole extending entirely through the mount member, the bank member is provided with a positioning protrusive portion formed of the same material as the bank member in association with the positioning through hole, and the positioning through hole and the associated positioning protrusive portion are engaged with each other, whereby the bank member is positioned with respect to the mount member, and wherein the positioning through hole is provided at such a position that in a case where the positioning through hole and the associated positioning protrusive portion are engaged with each other, a surface portion of the sealing member from a critical point at which light that is radiated from a given point that is the shortest from the inner circumferential face of the bank member among the light emitting chips is fully reflected on an interface between the sealing member and a pneumatic air layer, to the inner circumferential surface of the bank member is at least a surface which warps upwardly toward the inner circumferential surface of the bank member because of surface tension.