JPH0718971U - Drink holder - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a drink holder for an automobile cab, which has an excellent lighting effect and is capable of illuminating various aspects having a high design value. [Arrangement] A transparent flexible tube 2 is filled with a core material 3 of an optical transmission medium, an illumination tube 4, and a semiconductor light emitting element 6 or an incandescent lamp 7 provided at both ends or one end of the illumination tube 4 for arbitrary coloring. The linear illuminating body 1 having the light source part 5 that emits light is arranged around the drink holder 13 in a freely bendable manner in an arbitrary array form, and an illuminating device that illuminates by peripheral surface luminescence of the illuminating tube 4 is provided. It has a unique structure.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a drink holder that is installed in a car's cabin to store and hold soft drinks, fruit drinks, drink containers such as tea and coffee, small items, and the like. The present invention relates to a drink holder provided with a lighting device so that the holder can be visually recognized in a dark car and has an aesthetic appearance as an indoor unit product.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 A drink holder with a lighting device to be installed in a car's cabin generally has a structure in which a light receiving and emitting piece made of a resin mixed with a fluorescent material is attached to the outer periphery. As a special structure that is intentionally increased, there are known examples disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication Nos. 5-19136 and 1-123547. That is, in the former case of this special structure, an illumination case made of a transparent material or a semitransparent material is attached to a supporting dish for holding a drink container, and an illumination bulb is arranged in this illumination case, or a transparent material or a semitransparent material is used. It has a structure in which a coil made of a transparent material has an illumination coil inside which an illumination bulb is installed, and the drink holder is illuminated by the light emission of these bulbs. The switch panel illumination light is guided to the side edge of the drink holder by the prism / V-shaped spectral surface and illuminated.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 The above-mentioned conventionally known drink holder with a lighting device has a certain lighting effect, but has the following problems. That is, the above-mentioned general structure having the light-emitting piece made of the fluorescent material is inferior in the illumination degree, and therefore the illumination effect is hardly obtained due to the darkness in the room. The former one with the special structure mentioned above is a point lighting by a light bulb, so a large number of light bulbs are required to obtain an appropriate lighting effect, and the structure including electric wiring becomes complicated and the cost is high. Becomes

Since the latter of the above-mentioned special structures only illuminates the local part of the drink holder, the illumination area is small and the illumination effect is small. Furthermore, in the above-mentioned publicly known example, the point illumination centering on a light bulb or the line illumination led by a prism or the like is used as the basis of the illumination configuration, so that the illumination mode of the drink holder can be variously changed. There is little freedom to improve the lighting sense, and since it has to be simple, it is not possible to obtain a high level of design value as lighting for equipment in car cabins. The present invention provides a drink holder with a lighting device that solves the above-mentioned problems of the prior art.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 The drink holder of the present invention that solves the above technical problems is "a transparent or semi-transparent flexible tube filled with a flexible core material of an optical transmission medium, and an end of the illumination tube. A linear lighting body having a light source section that selectively emits light of an arbitrary color by means of a semiconductor light emitting element or an incandescent light bulb provided at one end is arranged in a drink holder in a bendable shape and arranged in an arbitrary arrangement. The structure is provided with an illuminating device that illuminates by peripheral light emission of the illumination tube. "

That is, the drink holder illuminating device having the above-described configuration is an application of the known diffuser tube disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 187505/1989 as a linear illuminating body, and a light source for the linear illuminating body. The light emitted from the part is transmitted to the inside of the tube to emit light from the peripheral surface, and the continuous peripheral surface emission enables high-quality and versatile drink holder illumination.

[0007]

[Action]

 The drink holder of the present invention having the above-mentioned configuration has an illumination device having the above-mentioned linear illumination body as a main part, and this linear illumination body is a tube in which the light of the light source at the end of the tube body is bent directly. Since the light is transmitted to the inside of the tube and diffused from the peripheral surface of the tube, the illumination of the drink holder is converted from the conventional point / line illumination to wide area continuous illumination, and the linear illumination body is flexible. Since it has a structure in which the light source and the lighting tube that mainly emits light are separated, the lighting tube can be arranged in any shape, and various lighting configurations can be adopted with a high degree of freedom. Therefore, it is possible to provide a drink holder that has a wide variety of drink holder illuminations that have extremely good illumination and have a high degree of design value as an indoor unit product.

[0008]

【Example】

 Hereinafter, a detailed description will be given based on examples. First, referring to FIG. 1 showing an embodiment of the present invention, a drink holder 13 of the present invention has a drink container (not shown) mounted above a supporting portion 11 which is mounted and supported at an arbitrary position in an automobile cabin. It has a structure in which a cylindrical container holding portion 12 that is freely put in and taken out from the container is provided, and is arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the container holding portion 12 along the cylindrical peripheral surface in the upper and lower three stages in the circumferential direction. The illuminated linear illumination bodies 1A, 1B, and 1C constitute the illumination device of the drink holder 13, and the drink holder 13 in the dark cabin is illuminated by diffusing light from the peripheral surface of the linear illumination body. Has become.

Specifically, the linear illuminators 1A, 1B, and 1C are made of a transparent fluororesin tube 2 (outer diameter: about 3 mm, inner diameter: about 2 mm) and transparent silicon as a core material 3 of an optical transmission medium. The filled illumination tube 4 and a flexible body provided with light source portions 5 at both ends or one end of the illumination tube 4 are provided. The light source portion 5 of the linear illumination bodies 1A, 1B, 1C has a connector 14 at the tip. The lead wire 15 is provided. The light source unit 5 includes the light source of the incandescent light bulb 7 or the semiconductor light emitting element 6 as shown in FIGS. 1D and 1E, and the coloring filter 10 for coloring the light emitted from the light source in an arbitrary color and the illuminance of the light source. A reflecting mirror 9 and a condenser lens 8 for amplifying the light are provided as necessary, and the light of the light source is made into an arbitrary color and is radiated into the illumination tube 4 to be transmitted through the core material 3 in the longitudinal direction of the tube 2. The transmitted light is scattered from the peripheral surface of the illumination tube 4 to emit light.

The above-mentioned drink holder 13 is fixed in front of the air outlet of the air conditioner in the cabin, or at any other position, and is equipped with a cigar socket powered by the battery of the vehicle body or another carrier. A connector 14 is connected to a power outlet provided for a bottle outlet or a drink holder 13 and used by illuminating a lighting device including linear lighting bodies 1A, 1B, 1C.

The above-described drink holder 13 with a lighting device has the above-described effect, and the entire length of the linear illuminators 1A, 1B, and 1C forms a wide-area continuous light emission that emits light of any color. The presence of the holder 13 can be visually recognized accurately, and the illumination of the holder 13 can improve the aesthetics of the cabin.

The linear illuminator 1 of the drink holder 13 of the present invention has various geometrical arrangements on the outer periphery of the container holder 12 in consideration of the design value of the illumination, as illustrated in FIG. It is possible to freely change the lighting design effect and the lighting performance of the drink holder as an indoor device by using various means such as partial light emission on the peripheral surface, combination of emission colors, or blinking of emission colors. It is adopted by.

[0013]

[Effect of device]

 As described above, since the drink holder of the present invention has the lighting device whose main part is the linear lighting body, the drink holder in the car cabin can be extremely illuminated. Since various lighting modes can be adopted with a high degree of freedom in consideration of the design effect of the drink holder, the design value inside the car cabin can be further improved, and the convenience and comfort of the car and the comfort of the room can be improved. There is a practical effect to improve

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an illumination structure of a drink holder according to an embodiment of the present invention, where (A) is a front perspective view of the drink holder, and (B) is a rear perspective view of the drink holder. (C) is a front view of the linear illumination body used for it,
(D) and (E) in the figure are enlarged front sectional views of the light source portion of the linear illumination body.

FIG. 2 shows an illumination structure of a drink holder according to another embodiment of the present invention, in which (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E) are shown.
(F) and front view of the drink holder

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Linear Illuminator 2 Tube 3 Core Material 4 Illumination Tube 5 Light Source Section 6 Semiconductor Light Emitting Element 7 Incandescent Light Bulb 8 Condensing Lens 9 Reflecting Mirror 10 Filter 11 Supporting Section 12 Container Holding Section 13 Drink Holder 14 Connector

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A lighting tube in which a flexible core material of an optical transmission medium is filled in a transparent or translucent flexible tube, and a semiconductor light emitting element or an incandescent lamp provided at both ends or one end of the lighting tube. According to, a linear illumination body having a light source section that selectively emits light of any color is arranged in a drink holder in a freely bendable shape in an arbitrary array form.
A drink holder characterized by a structure provided with an illuminating device for illuminating the peripheral surface of the illuminating tube.