Patent ID: 8870422

Claim:
A lighting device for a vehicle provided to a vehicular interior part to illuminate a first portion and a second portion of the vehicular interior part that are to be illuminated, the lighting device comprising: a light source; a panel member formed in an elongated shape and configuring a part of the vehicular interior part; a light guide member formed in an elongated shape and provided to the panel member and including a light entrance portion and a light exit portion, the light entrance portion being where light from the light source enters and the light exit portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the panel member and from where the light entering the light entrance portion exits; a first light transmission portion provided in the panel member and through which the light exiting from the light exit portion transmits toward the first portion to be illuminated; and a second light transmission portion provided in the panel member farther away from the light source than the first light transmission portion and through which the light exiting from the light exit portion transmits toward the second portion to be illuminated, the second light transmission portion and the second portion extending along a longitudinal direction of the light exit portion, wherein a distance between the light guide member and the second portion decreases as the light guide member and the second portion extend away from the light source along the longitudinal direction of the panel member, the second portion is provided on a lower side of the panel member relative to the light guide member and is an inclined surface that is inclined to be closer to a vehicular compartment inner side as the second portion extends closer to a lower side of the vehicle interior part, and the inclined surface of the second portion is inclined at an inclination angle with respect to a horizontal direction, and the inclination angle decreases as the second portion extends farther away from the light source along the longitudinal direction of the light guide member.