Display device for a motor vehicle

• US 20050180152A1
• Filed: 01/31/2003
• Published: 08/18/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Haag, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 7,360,931 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/494
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2665 on rear-view mirrors lighting devices for vehicle interior on or for rear-view mirrors B60Q3/258
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/1207 with lamps; with turn indicators
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2001/1215 with information displays

Abstract

Indicating device for a motor vehicle, having at least one lighting element that is mounted in the housing of a mirror, for example by gluing it onto the mirror glass from the rear, and which illuminates the housing interior, making it only indirectly visible to the driver.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. An indicating device for a motor vehicle comprising:

at least one lighting element that is activated for indication purposes, the at least one lighting element being situated so that it directly illuminates an interior of a housing of a mirror of the motor vehicle.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the mirror is an outside rear-view mirror of the motor vehicle.

12. The device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one lighting element is mounted onto glass of the mirror from a rear.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one lighting element is mounted by gluing.

14. The device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one lighting element is a bright light-emitting diode.

15. The device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one lighting element is situated so that it illuminates at least a part of the mirror housing.

16. The device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one lighting element is activated when a blind spot detection system detects a traffic participant in a blind spot of the motor vehicle.

17. The device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one lighting element is situated in an external part of an outside rear-view mirror that faces away from the vehicle.

18. The device according to claim 10, wherein the mirror has glass that is non-transparent and is covered by a heating foil for defrosting the glass in the winter.

19. The device according to claim 10, wherein the at least one lighting element is embedded in the mirror housing in such a way that the at least one lighting element at least partially illuminates the mirror housing.