Tail light for a motor vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMarkus Halm
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Abstract
A tail light includes a housing with a translucent cover panel and one or more flexible light guides at least partly arranged in the housing. Each light guide contains one or more fibers which extend between two ends of the respective light guide in the longitudinal direction thereof. One or more laser light sources are provided at one end of each light guide, and the supplied light produces an emission of light out of the respective light guide along the longitudinal direction thereof. At least one part of the emitted light exits the tail light via the cover panel as a first light emission. An additional lighting device with one or more LEDs is at least partly arranged in the housing and is configured such that light originating from the LED(s) exits the tail light via the cover panel as a second light emission.
Claims18
A tail light for a motor vehicle, the tail light comprising:
- a housing with a light-permeable cover lens;
- at least one flexible light guide at least partially arranged in the housing, wherein a respective light guide contains at least one fiber which extends between two ends of the respective light guide in a longitudinal direction of the respective light guide, wherein at least one laser light source is provided for feeding in light at one end of the respective light guide and the fed-in light causes light emission from the respective light guide along the longitudinal direction of the respective light guide, and wherein at least a portion of the light emission emerges from the tail light via the cover lens as a first light emission and belongs to a rear light function;
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- a further illumination device for the rear light function, wherein:
- the further illumination device comprises at least one LED,
- the further illumination device is at least partially arranged in the housing, and
- the further illumination device is configured such that light which originates from the at least one LED emerges from the tail light via the cover lens as a second light emission and belongs to the rear light function.
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