B60Q 3/62
Using light guides
Official title: using light guides
B60Q3/62 (Using light guides) appears on 890 US grants and 912 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 890
- Published applications
- 912
- Assignees
- 375
- Inventors
- 1,853
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 54 | 67 |
| 2025 | 59 | 53 |
| 2026 | 33 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Interior equipment for a motor vehicle having a lighting module with a flexible guide sheet6 Oct 2026US 12,752,700 B2Valeo Vision
- Glazing comprising an interior lighting system, interior lighting system and method of manufacturing such a glazing29 Sep 2026US 12,746,874 B2Saint-Gobain Sekurit France
- Vehicle interior illumination lamp15 Sep 2026US 12,736,737 B2Yazaki Corporation
- Vehicle lamp8 Sep 2026US 12,729,823 B2Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
- Vehicle steering wheel lighting device having a compact design and light guide1 Sep 2026US 12,722,565 B2Autoliv Development AB
- Head Rest for a Vehicle Seat with a Light8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307584 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- A skin structure and a forming method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309301 A1
- Vehicle trim element comprising a movable image-producing unit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309982 A1Faurecia Interieur Industrie
- A gear shift system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296304 A1Jaguar Land Rover Limited
- Lighting Device for a Motor Vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296305 A1Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle interior LED lighting system962US 7,195,381 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2007
- Automotive instrument 3-D virtual image display547US 5,440,428 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1995
- Video mirror system for a vehicle485US 7,619,508 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2009
- Lighting device for motor vehicles379US 6,152,590 ADonnelly Hohe GmbH & Co. KG · 2000
- Lighting device for motor vehicles265US 6,347,880 B1Donnelly Hohe GmbH & Co. KG · 2002