Illuminating system

• US 20030227778A1
• Filed: 05/05/2003
• Published: 12/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Company Limited (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanabe, Tetsuo
• Granted Patent: US 7,202,779 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/487
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/80 Circuits; Control arrangements for dashboards B60Q3/16; for mass transit vehicles B60Q3/47

Abstract

An illuminating system includes illumination device adapted for being installed inside a car cabin, and an operation device being able to wirelessly operate illumination modes of the illumination device.

Claims

1. An illuminating system comprising:

an illumination device adapted for being installed inside a car cabin; and

an operation device being able to wirelessly operate illumination modes of said illumination device.

2. An illuminating system according to claim 1, further comprising a control unit for controlling illumination modes of said illumination device, said control unit having a wireless receiving unit, wherein said control unit receives illumination mode control data from said operation device to thereby control illumination modes of said illumination device.

3. An illuminating system according to claim 1, wherein said operation device may be connected to one of a communication network and an information processing device, and an illumination mode operation software for controlling illumination modes of said illumination device may be introduced into said operation device through one of said communication network and said information processing device.

4. An illuminating system according to claim 1, wherein said operation device includes a simple wireless function.

5. An illuminating system according to claim 1, wherein said operation device is one of a portable information processing terminal and a portable communication terminal.

6. An operation device adapted for an illumination device for illuminating an interior of a car cabin, said operation device comprising a wireless communication unit.

7. An operation device according to claim 6, wherein said operation device maybe connected to one of a communication network and an information processing device, and an illumination mode operation software for controlling illumination modes of said illumination device may be introduced into said operation device through one of said communication network and said information processing device.

8. An operation device according to claim 6, wherein said operation device includes a simple wireless function.

9. An operation device according to claim 6, wherein said operation device is one of a portable information processing terminal and a portable communication terminal.