Patent ID: 7438452
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: B60Q,H01H

Abstract:
1. An illumination device, comprising: a first light source, which is adapted to be fixed on an interior ceiling located between a driver seat and a passenger seat in a vehicle for directly illuminating an interior compartment of the vehicle; a second light source, which includes two lights that are adapted to be located corresponding to the driver seat or the passenger seat and to illuminate around the driver seat or the passenger seat; and two switches, each of which is located at a side of the first light source such that each of the switches is laterally adjacent to the first light source and each of the switches electrically controls one of the lights, wherein each of the switches includes a light emitting part that is laterally adjacent to the first light source, and wherein the light emitting part of the switch emits light from the first light source, wherein the light emitting part of the switch is formed from a light guide, the light guide includes a light receiving face and a light emitting face, the light receiving face of the light guide faces the first light source at a first end of the light guide and receives laterally directed light from the first light source, the light emitting face of the light guide is formed at a second end of the light guide and emits the laterally directed light from the first light source, each of the switches is entirely laterally spaced from an axial light path of the first light source such that the axial light path of the first light source is not blocked by either of the switches, and the light from the first light source that directly illuminates the interior compartment of the vehicle is emitted axially from the first light source, and the laterally directed light from the first light source is emitted in a direction that is generally perpendicular to the axially emitted light.