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US 9,178,371 B2Granted
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, the projection lens configured to project a status image onto a surface that is not integral with the puddle light, the status image comprising currently updated status information associated with a battery of the vehicle, the status image configured to be projected to be visible external to the vehicle without operating the vehicle.
A method for projecting a status image of a motor vehicle into a surface comprising:
- mounting a status 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, the status image comprising currently updated status information associated with a battery of the vehicle, the status image configured to be projected to be visible external to the vehicle without operating the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.