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Motor vehicle component

US10473290B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

WKW Erbsloeh Automotive GmbH · DE

Inventors

Andreas Wacker · Plochingen, DE
Bernd Fausten · Velbert, DE
Michael Hoinka · Heiligenhaus, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 5, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60R2011/004
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle component consisting of a metal profile element and a lighting element. The profile element has a channel extending in the longitudinal direction of the profile with an externally accessible opening extending in the longitudinal direction of the profile. The lighting element serves to produce a strip of light radiating in the longitudinal direction of the profile, and is arranged in the channel of the profile element so as to be concealed behind an outer surface of the profile element so that the radiated light does not arrive directly at the outside, but instead is reflected outward by a reflecting surface of the profile element.

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