Motor vehicle status display visible from outside the vehicle for the state of an operationally relevant component
US9283888B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 22, 2013 |
| Grant date | Mar 15, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 22, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02T10/70
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A status display for the state of an operationally-relevant component (1) of a motor vehicle, in which an illuminating structure (4) supplied by at least two light sources (5, 6) is arranged in a position of the vehicle which is visible from the outside and a control circuit (3) which is associated with the light sources is designed to control the light sources in accordance with a state signal (sz) representing the state of the operationally-relevant component (1), such that the luminance and/or the color indicates, along the illuminating structure and in a scaled manner, the state of the component.
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