DEVICE FOR INTERIOR LIGHTING IN A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20140085918A1
• Filed: 12/16/2011
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls Interiors GmbH & Company KG (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Muller, Wolfgang, Kirch, Jens, Thuma, Oliver, Eroglu, Yasar, Dollsy, Jacky
• Application Number:
  US13/995,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20140085918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 362/514
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/252 Sun visors
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/51 for mounting lighting devices onto vehicle interior, e.g. onto ceiling or floor

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for interior lighting in a motor vehicle, wherein the device comprises a lamp, a reflection means and a power distribution means and wherein the lamp, the reflection means and the power distribution means are arranged on a common support structure.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A device for interior lighting in a motor vehicle, comprising a lighting means, a reflecting means and a power distributing means, wherein the lighting means, the reflecting means and the power distributing means are arranged on a common supporting structure.

15. The device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the lighting means comprises a light-emitting diode and/or an incandescent lamp and/or the lighting means comprises a board and a light-emitting diode and/or an incandescent lamp arranged on the board.

16. The device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the supporting structure comprises at least one fastening and positioning pin protruding perpendicularly from a plate-shaped base region of the supporting structure, the board being fastened to the at least one fastening and positioning pin and extending substantially parallel to the base region.

17. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the reflecting means comprises a reflecting bevel extending at such an angle from the base region in the direction of the board that the reflecting bevel is inclined with respect to the base region and/or the board.

18. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the supporting structure comprises a reflecting region configured to deflect rays of light that impinge on the reflecting region parallel to the base region into a direction perpendicular to the base region.

19. The device as claimed in claim 18, wherein the light-emitting diode is arranged on the board in such a way that light emitted by the light-emitting diode impinges on the reflecting bevel and is directed by the reflecting bevel along a direction parallel to the base region, in the direction of the reflecting region.

20. The device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the board comprises a heat-dissipating means.

21. The device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the power distributing means comprises a metal leadframe and/or the power distributing means is connected in an electrically conductive manner to the board by at least one plug-in contact extending parallel to the at least one fastening and positioning pin.

26. The device as claimed in claim 17, wherein the board rests on the reflecting bevel.

27. The device as claimed in claim 20, wherein the heat-dissipating means is arranged at least on a side of the board facing away from the supporting structure.

28. The device as claimed in claim 20, wherein the heat-dissipating means comprises a copper material.