Patent ID: 7695175

Claim:
A vehicle lamp, comprising: a light source unit including, at least one light source having an emission area and configured to emit light along an optical axis and in a light emitting direction, and a converting part including: a pair of primary reflecting mirrors configured to reflect part of the light emitted from the light source to respective predetermined directions with respect to a center section of the emission area of the light source and about the optical axis, the primary reflecting mirrors being arranged in the emission area but spaced from the center section when viewed from the light emitting direction; and a pair of secondary reflecting mirrors configured to reflect light from the primary reflecting mirrors into a direction substantially parallel to the optical axis, each of the secondary reflecting mirrors being arranged substantially parallel with a respective one of the primary reflecting mirrors, the converting part thus being configured to convert light emitted from the light source to converted light having a predetermined narrow width, the conversion part having an emission area configured to emit the converted light; and a light guide lens including, one end face having a shape corresponding to the emission area of the converting part, and including an incident surface which is configured to receive the converted light and to allow the converted light to pass through to become incident light, a thin plate-like light guiding portion configured to guide the incident light, and an other end face being a farthest part of the light guide lens away from the incident surface, the light guide lens configured to guide the incident light from the incident surface toward the other end face and configured to emit a first portion of the incident light from the other end face and configured to emit a second different portion of the incident light from a predetermined surface of the light guide lens separate from and located between the incident surface and other end face of the light guide lens.