Vehicle lighting arrangement

US8736172B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Infineon Technologies AG · DE

Inventors

• Markus Hammer · Neu-Ulm, DE
• Guenther Ruhl · Regensburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 5, 2012
• Grant date: May 27, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 15, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60Q11/00
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle lighting arrangement comprising a luminous device, a luminous device driver circuit, a sensor and a nonvolatile memory, wherein the luminous device driver circuit is designed to drive the luminous device during luminous device driving such that the luminous device emits light, wherein the sensor is designed to detect a sensor state of the luminous device, and wherein the vehicle lighting arrangement is designed to read in a sensor state of the luminous device detected by the sensor and to write the read-in sensor state to the nonvolatile memory.