Patent ID: 9651231
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B32B,B60Q,F21S,F21V,F21Y

Claim:
1. A rear windshield for a vehicle, comprising first and second glass substrates, laminated to one another via a first laminating material to form the rear windshield; and a center high mounted stop lamp in the rear windshield for the vehicle that includes: wherein the backbone substrate has a shape so that the LED devices, when powered, emit light primarily in a direction parallel to a surface on which the vehicle is located so as to function as a stop lamp for the vehicle, the direction in which the LED devices primarily emit light also being non-perpendicular to an outer surface of the rear windshield, wherein the backbone substrate is shaped so as to have a plurality of steps, each said step supporting at least one of said LEDs and being non-perpendicular and non-parallel to the outer surface of the rear windshield, and the deformable non-conductive backbone substrate is a flexible sheet that has a substantially sinusoidal shape.