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US 10,479,270 B2Granted
Illuminated vehicle cup holder with grating film
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Linsheng Chen, Paul Kenneth Dellock
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Abstract
A vehicle cup holder includes a console substrate defining a well for receiving cup; a light source provided within a lamp cavity positioned below the well; a film provided between the well and the lamp cavity, such film defining a grating for projecting a desired image when illuminated by the light source.
Claims20
A vehicle cup holder, comprising:
- a console substrate defining a cup well;
- a lamp cavity defined by the console substrate and positioned below the cup well;
- a film positioned between the cup well and the lamp cavity, wherein the film has an interior surface proximate the lamp cavity and defines at least one first grating on the interior surface;
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- more than one light source positioned within the lamp cavity in a vertically stacked configuration and configured to emit light onto the film.
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A vehicle cup holder, comprising:
- a console substrate defining a cup well;
- a lamp cavity defined by the console substrate and positioned below the cup well;
- a film defining at least one holographic grating positioned between the cup well and the lamp cavity;
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- a plurality of light sources positioned in a vertically stacked configuration, wherein light sources of the plurality of light sources are configured to emit light at the film, and wherein the light emitted from the light sources falling on the at least one holographic grating diffracts into a light field defining a projected image.
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A vehicle cup holder, comprising:
- a console substrate defining a cup well;
- a lamp cavity defined by the console substrate and positioned below the cup well;
- a film positioned between the cup well and the lamp cavity, wherein the film defines more than one first grating and a space therebetween;
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- at least one light source positioned within the lamp cavity, wherein the at least one light source emits light at the film.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.