Emblem arrangement for a motor vehicle
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsCHRISTIAN STUDENY, FALKO SEIFERT, MIGUEL ALMEIDA ESTEVAO, SANDRA STURMAT
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Abstract
An emblem arrangement for a motor vehicle has an emblem support part, an element forming a brand emblem, and at least one luminous element for illuminating the emblem arrangement. The element forming the brand emblem is a layered structure having at least two layers, which layered structure has, when viewed in a plan view of the emblem arrangement, translucent and non-translucent regions. The translucent regions are able to depict the shape of the brand emblem in its entirety or wherein the translucent regions are able to depict merely the contour of the brand emblem.
Claims15
1-14. (canceled)
An emblem arrangement for a motor vehicle, the emblem arrangement comprising:
- an emblem support part;
- at least one luminous element for illuminating the emblem arrangement;
- and
- an element forming a brand emblem, said element being a layer structure with at least two layers which, as seen in a plan view of the emblem arrangement, is formed with translucent regions and nontranslucent regions, wherein the translucent regions are formed to depict a shape of the brand emblem surface-wide or wherein the translucent regions depict the brand emblem only in a contour thereof;
- wherein:
- said layer structure includes a first layer being a transparent support sheet and a second layer forming the translucent regions and the nontranslucent regions, said second layer having at least two partial layers lying on one another and including a first partial layer, defining the translucent regions and the nontranslucent regions, and a second partial layer being translucent and having the same color as the translucent regions of said first partial layer;
- or:
- said layer structure includes a first nontranslucent layer and at least one second nontranslucent layer;
- at least one circuit board in an edge region of the emblem arrangement carrying a plurality of luminous means configured to generate light to be coupled in the edge region of the emblem arrangement into a flat light guide;
- and
- said flat light guide, on a side facing away from said layer structure, having a light output structure which is superimposed, in a plan view of an outline of the emblem arrangement, with regions in which said layer structure is entirely removed and which form the translucent regions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.