Vehicle and method for illuminating a passenger compartment of a vehicle with distributed ambient lights

US10259388B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Marcel Mathissen · Übach-Palenberg, DE
• Thomas Baranowski · Würselen, DE
• Maximilian Engelke · Aachen, DE
• Maik Broda · Würselen, DE
• Xiao Ping Chen · East Meadow, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 2017
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60Q2500/30
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for illuminating a passenger compartment of a vehicle with lighting devices which each contain one or more diffuse and/or indirect light sources. The intensity and color of the light emitted by the light sources being set automatically as a function of specific operating parameters which are influenced by a vehicle occupant. The lighting devices which are respectively spatially assigned to an area of the passenger compartment of the vehicle in which there is a vehicle component with an operating parameter which can be set separately by the driver and which can act on a general operating mode selected by the driver, are actuated in such a way that their intensity and color indicate to the driver whether the current setting of the separately settable operating parameter has a positive or negative effect on the general operating mode selected by the driver.