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US 2017/0362860 A1Published application
Device for indicating lock status of a motor vehicle door
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Cornel Lewis Gardner, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Thomas F. Boettger
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Abstract
A device for indicating lock status of a motor vehicle door includes a door lock status indicator carried on a window of the motor vehicle door. A window for a motor vehicle includes a luminescent door lock status indicator, a luminescent turn signal indicator and a luminescent blind spot indicator.
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A device for indicating lock status of a motor vehicle door, comprising:
- a door lock status indicator carried on a window of said motor vehicle door;
- a first luminescent marker having an invisible state and a visible state;
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- a first light source configured to project excitation light upon said first luminescent marker and change said first luminescent marker from said invisible state to said visible state wherein said first light source is selected from a first group consisting of a UV light source and an IR light source.
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A window for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a window body;
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- a plurality of indicators carried on said window body including a luminescent door lock status indicator and at least one of a luminescent turn signal indicator and a luminescent blind spot indicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.