F21W 2102/00
Exterior vehicle lighting devices for illuminating purposes
F21W2102/00 (Exterior vehicle lighting devices for illuminating purposes) appears on 1,241 US grants and 1,364 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F21W- Granted patents
- 1,241
- Published applications
- 1,364
- Assignees
- 284
- Inventors
- 1,874
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 70 | 70 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vehicle lamp fitting6 Oct 2026US 12,753,893 B2Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
- Vehicle lamp6 Oct 2026US 12,753,896 B2SL Corporation
- Light module and lighting device for a motor vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,753,897 B2Hella Saturnus Slovenija d.o.o.
- Motor-vehicle lighting module that produces a cutoff with a reflector the surface of which is partially grained22 Sep 2026US 12,742,531 B2Valeo Vision
- Vehicular illumination module15 Sep 2026US 12,736,195 B2Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
- Integrated lamp control modules24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287135 A1
- Vehicle lamp24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287138 A1Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Vehicle headlamp17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274155 A1Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Light guide component, lighting or signal indication device and motor vehcile17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276163 A1Valeo Vision
- Vehicle headlight17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276164 A1Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Illuminator assembly incorporating light emitting diodes881US 5,803,579 AGentex Corporation · 1998
- Led assembly631US 6,132,072 AGentex Corporation · 2000
- Uniform illumination system488US 7,072,096 B2Digital Optics International Corporation · 2006
- Uniform illumination system254US 7,400,439 B2Digital Optics International Corporation · 2008
- Multiple light-source illuminating system219US 8,100,552 B22012