Surface like light emitting ornamental device using optical fibers

Claim 1

A surface-like light emitting ornamental device using optical fibers, comprising, in combination, optical fibers having a core portion of relatively high refractivity and a clad portion of lower refractivity than that of said core portion and high transparency, and adapted to lead light incident on one end of said core portion to another end of said core portion with said light repeating total reflection at an interface between said core portion and said clad portion many times, and a light source body disposed at least at one end of said optical fiber, characterized in that: a number of optical fibers are intertwined in a direction of the length of said fibers to form a surface-like light leakage ornamental section which overcomes total reflection, one surface side of said surface-like light leakage ornamental section having a light scattering film layer of a translucent synthetic resin coating integrally formed thereon, a second surface side opposed to said one surface side of said surface-like leakage ornamental section being uncoated by said film layer.