| US 7,573,378 B2 | ||
| Brake light system for vehicle | ||
| Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, Wako (Japan); Masaaki Abe, Wako (Japan); Yuji Kuwashima, Wako (Japan); Mari Sakamoto, Wako (Japan); and Hirosni Uematsu, Wako (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 11/661,787 PCT Filed Sep. 26, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/018224 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Mar. 01, 2007, PCT Pub. No. WO2006/035957, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 06, 2006. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2004-279114 (JP), filed on Sep. 27, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0094200 A1, Apr. 24, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60Q 1/44 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 340—479 [340/467; 340/468] | 18 Claims |
| 1. A vehicle brake light system including a row of vertically arranged lighting units on each of right and left sides of a
vehicle rear part, characterized in that
the lighting units are disposed such that a lower positioned one of the lighting units of one row has a greater distance between
a center of gravity thereof and a center of gravity of a corresponding one of the lighting units of the other row, and
the lighting units are adapted to function such that the lower positioned lighting units are turned on as a braking force
applied to a brake pedal becomes larger.
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