Reading light having diffused light suppression

US7837364B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Tilo Budinger · Hamburg, DE
• Carsten Vogel · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2008
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D2011/0038
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An individual cabin illumination device in an aircraft, the device having a light source associated with a passenger or with a group of passengers and an antidazzle device, wherein the antidazzle device includes a multitude of light-directing units which may be arranged one beside the other. Each light-directing unit includes a light-inlet aperture, a light-outlet aperture and a wall that connects the light-inlet aperture to the light-outlet aperture, wherein the light-directing units allow diffusion of the light that can be given off by the light source essentially only onto the passengers associated with the light source.