Patent ID: 7635209
Filing Date: 2009-12-22
Classification: B60Q

Abstract:
1. A lamp for a vehicle provided to a forward inclined face of a roof of the vehicle, the forward inclined face inclining downward and forward of the vehicle from a rooftop portion of the roof, the lamp for a vehicle comprising: a circuit-mounting portion, comprising a plate-shaped base portion mounted proximate an opening of a roof-molding attaching groove formed in the vehicle roof, and a protruding portion which protrudes downwardly from a lower face of the plate-shaped base portion at a substantially middle position thereon, wherein the protruding portion is fit into the roof molding attaching groove; a plurality of arrayed light sources which are attached to the circuit-mounting portion; and a translucent lamp cover which covers a top of the circuit-mounting portion and which comprises a light emitting face at least on a top face thereof; a first illuminating portion of the translucent lamp cover which irradiates a light rearward and upward in relation to a vehicle advancing direction so as not to be visible from a front of the vehicle; and a second illuminating portion of the translucent lamp cover which irradiates a light in a direction other than rearward and upward in relation to a following vehicle in a rear direction; wherein the first illuminating portion and the second illuminating portion are in different colors; wherein at least a height of a top of the lamp for a vehicle while being attached to the vehicle is set so as to be lower than the rooftop portion of the roof.