ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,228, issued on June 10, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Light-emitting unit and vehicular lamp" was invented by Kenichi Saito (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Ueno (Tokyo) and Sumihisa Furufuji (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting unit includes a light source and a lens body disposed in front of the light source, and the lens body includes a projection lens part configured to project a graphic pattern toward a road surface by light emission of the light source, and a light emission lens part configured to cause surrounding of the projection lens part emit light by light emitted from the light source."
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