Patent ID: 7883249

Claim:
A lighting device for a vehicle, comprising: a light source; a light guide member, including: a light-introducing part provided in a back surface side of the light guide member and through which a light of the light source is introduced so as to emit the light from a front surface side of the light guide member; a part near the light-introducing part having a thickness which is greater than a thickness of an edge of the light guide member, the edge being disposed at a distal portion of the light guide member relative to the light-introducing part; and a plurality of reflecting parts and a plurality of connecting parts being alternately formed contiguously on the back surface side extending in a direction from the light-introducing part to the edge, said reflecting parts respectively reflecting the introduced light in a direction of the front surface of the light guide member; and a housing, connected to the back surface of the light guide member at a position between the edge of the back surface of the light guide member and the light-introducing part and attached to the back surface side of the light guide member to house the light source, wherein the light source comprises a first lamp and a second lamp, wherein the lighting device further comprises a tail/stop lamp part that emits a light of the first lamp, and a turn lamp part that emits a light of the second lamp and is provided in a lower part of the tail/stop lamp part, wherein the housing houses the first lamp and the second lamp, wherein the tail/stop lamp part communicates with the turn lamp part in the housing, and wherein the housing includes a first vent hole in a vicinity of the first lamp and a second vent hole in a vicinity of the second lamp.