Motor vehicle status display visible from outside the vehicle for the state of an operationally relevant component
AssigneeZizala Lichtsysteme GmbH
InventorMarkus Reinprecht
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Abstract
A status display for the state of an operationally-relevant component (1) of a motor vehicle, in which an illuminating structure (4) supplied by at least two light sources (5, 6) is arranged in a position of the vehicle which is visible from the outside and a control circuit (3) which is associated with the light sources is designed to control the light sources in accordance with a state signal (sz) representing the state of the operationally-relevant component (1), such that the luminance and/or the color indicates, along the illuminating structure and in a scaled manner, the state of the component.
Claims5
A status display for a state of an operationally-relevant component of a motor vehicle, the status display comprising:
- an illuminating structure arranged in a position of the vehicle that is visible from outside the vehicle, the illuminating structure comprising:
- at least two light sources, and
- a control circuit, which is designed to control the at least two light sources in accordance with a state signal (sz) representing the state of the operationally-relevant component, such that the luminance and/or colour along the illuminating structure indicates the state of the component in a scale-like manner;
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- at least one light stick having at least two light feed positions (A, B), which are each associated with one of the at least two light sources,
- wherein the light stick is designed to guide the supplied light and to irradiate light on account of defects formed on the light stick, and the control circuit is designed to activate the at least two light sources at the at least two light feed positions in accordance with the state of the component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.