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Lighting device and lighting system for a motor vehicle and method for operating a lighting system for a motor vehicle

US11259375B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Florian Altinger · 南湖街道, CN
Juergen Bruegl · Munich, DE
Robert ISELE · Fürstenfeldbruck, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 1, 2019
Grant date	Feb 22, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 1, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH05B45/58
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A lighting apparatus for a motor vehicle includes a processing module configured to receive, process and send signals from a data bus of the motor vehicle, and a light-emitting diode (LED) unit configured to emit light of adjustable brightness and prescribed color locus. The LED unit has a microcontroller and a plurality of LEDs, where the microcontroller and the LEDs are surrounded by a package of the LED unit. The LED unit is further configured to communicate bidirectionally with the processing module so that a present status value of the LED unit, which status value is representative of a functionality of the LED unit, is ascertainable by the LED unit and the processing module.

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