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US 2014/0191859 A1Published application
Puddle Light With Status Display
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorPeter Koelsch
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Abstract
A puddle light for a motor vehicle, in particular for a battery-operated motor vehicle, wherein the puddle light projects the status of charge of a drive battery of the vehicle onto a surface; and a method for projecting the status image.
Claims20
A puddle light for a motor vehicle comprising:
- a projection lens projecting a status image onto a surface that is not integral with the puddle light.
A method for projecting a status image of a motor vehicle into a surface comprising:
- mounting an image forming device into a component of the vehicle, and
- projecting said status image onto a surface juxtaposed to said vehicle or a surface of said vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.