Patent ID: 6976774

Claim:
A combined assembly of a center high mounted stop lamp (CHMSL) assembly and a cargo lamp assembly for a vehicle, the combined assembly comprising: a housing for mounting on a rearwardly facing wall surface of a body portion of the vehicle proximate a top thereof and proximate a transverse center of the vehicle, said housing having compartments including at least one center compartment for housing CHMSL components and having a stop lamp lens, and including left and right compartments, respectively on opposite sides of the CHMSL compartment, each having a cargo light lens and a white light emitting diode (LED) for directing a beam of light to the respective cargo light lens; each of said cargo lamp assemblies comprising one of the cargo lenses and one of the LEDs, the LEDs having an aperture for emitting the light beam in an arc of about 120° in horizontal and vertical planes; and each of said cargo lenses being adapted to reduce the light beam in the horizontal plane to about 60° and reducing the light beam in the vertical plane to about 60°.