Patent ID: 7021805

Claim:
A vehicle lamp comprising a light source oriented toward the front of the lamp, and a translucent member arranged so as to cause light leaving the light source to enter the translucent member and which is configured to reflect rearward the light that has originated from the light source and entered the translucent member by a front surface of the translucent member and then to reflect the light by a rear surface of the translucent member, to thereby exit the front of the lamp from the translucent member, wherein an area on the front surface of the translucent member located in the vicinity of an optical axis of the light source is formed as a normal reflection section subjected to reflection surface treatment, and an area of the front surface of the translucent member other than the normal reflection section is formed as an internal reflection section which causes the outgoing light having entered the translucent member to undergo internal reflection; and wherein a plurality of reflection elements are formed on the rear surface of the translucent member for subjecting the outgoing light reflected from the front surface of the translucent member to reflection so as to enter the internal reflection section at an incidence angle which is smaller than or equal to a critical angle.