B60Q 3/40
Arrangement of lighting devices for vehicle interiors: specially adapted for specific vehicle
Official title: specially adapted for specific vehicle types
B60Q3/40 (Arrangement of lighting devices for vehicle interiors: specially adapted for specific vehicle) appears on 465 US grants and 456 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 465
- Published applications
- 456
- Assignees
- 199
- Inventors
- 831
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 27 | 16 |
| 2025 | 14 | 12 |
| 2026 | 9 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Aircraft passenger reading light, aircraft comprising an aircraft passenger reading light, and method of operating an aircraft passenger reading light15 Sep 2026US 12,734,960 B2Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH
- Cabin illumination device2 Jun 2026US 12,644,577 B2Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
- Variable mount LED light holding system2 Jun 2026US 12,644,583 B1
- Vehicular rear window assembly with system status indicator31 Mar 2026US 12,589,637 B2Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
- Support box apparatus24 Feb 2026US 12,559,221 B2The Boeing Company
- Work vehicle10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264752 A1Kubota Corporation
- Variable mount led light holding system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251288 A1
- Light emitting module for vehicles9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192745 A1Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
- Method, in-vehicle apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium5 Mar 2026US 2026/0062977 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Vehicle Having Guiding Display20 Nov 2025US 2025/0353375 A1Komatsu America Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- LED reading light285US 6,161,910 AAerospace Lighting Corporation · 2000
- LED lighting system198US 7,307,391 B2LED Smart Inc. · 2007
- Aeroplane cabin lighting arrangement131US 6,203,180 B1Diehl Striftung & Co. · 2001
- LED lighting device and system131US 6,871,981 B2Heads Up Technologies, Inc. · 2005
- Lighting system128US 5,499,170 A1996