B60Q 11/007
The lighting devices indicating change of drive direction
Official title: {the lighting devices indicating change of drive direction}
B60Q11/007 (The lighting devices indicating change of drive direction) appears on 78 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 78
- Published applications
- 61
- Assignees
- 56
- Inventors
- 187
- Latest grant
- 31 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vehicular lamp, control device and control method for vehicular lamp, vehicular lamp system, and configurating device and configurating method for vehicular lamp31 Mar 2026US 12,589,693 B2Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Method for operating at least one direction indicator of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle16 Dec 2025US 12,496,963 B2Audi AG
- System and method for reducing a power consumption of a vehicle rear lamp14 Oct 2025US 12,445,323 B2Hella Autotechnik Nova S.R.O.
- Lighting state detection for a vehicle trailer27 May 2025US 12,311,839 B2Horizon Global Americas Inc.
- System for detecting circuit anomalies in trailer wiring6 May 2025US 12,292,465 B2Grote Industries, Inc.
- Methods, systems, and devices for detecting a vehicle lamp failure3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257620 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Tail light and method for the operation thereof, and vehicle3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257621 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Vehicular lamp system, and configurating device and configurating method for vehicular lamp21 May 2026US 2026/0138530 A1Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Lighting control system for mitigating exterior light failures30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116295 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Method of providing an alert to another vehicle with a malfunction in the visual display19 Mar 2026US 2026/0080721 A1Volvo Car Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automotive trailer connection recognition system53US 4,430,637 ARobert Bosch GmbH · 1984
- Universal trailer lighting adapter47US 5,030,938 A1991
- Electrical apparatus to connect towing vehicle light circuits to a trailer light circuit when the towing vehicle has separate circuits respectively for turning and stop lights and the trailer has a common light circuit for both turning and stop lights28US 3,970,860 A1976
- Electrical tell tale system for trailers22US 6,535,113 B12003
- Direction indicating flasher device for vehicles with filament failure indication19US 4,910,496 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990