B60Q 3/82
Switches specially adapted for vehicle interior lighting
Official title: Switches specially adapted for vehicle interior lighting, e.g. switching by tilting the lens
B60Q3/82 (Switches specially adapted for vehicle interior lighting) appears on 266 US grants and 294 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 266
- Published applications
- 294
- Assignees
- 151
- Inventors
- 581
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2005 | 3 | 10 |
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| 2015 | 6 | 19 |
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| 2018 | 19 | 33 |
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| 2022 | 14 | 11 |
| 2023 | 10 | 20 |
| 2024 | 13 | 11 |
| 2025 | 13 | 10 |
| 2026 | 9 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle interior LED lighting system962US 7,195,381 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2007
- Video mirror system for a vehicle485US 7,619,508 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2009
- Vehicle interior lighting systems using electroluminescent panels303US 6,773,129 B2Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc. · 2004
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- Lighting system for a vehicle, with high-intensity power LED191US 7,344,284 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2008