VEHICLE-INTERIOR ILLUMINATION DEVICE

• US 20150197193A1
• Filed: 03/27/2015
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: OBA, Yasushi, SUGIMOTO, Terumitsu
• Application Number:
  US14/670,501
• Publication Number:
  US 20150197193A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2500/30 Arrangements for illuminating different zones in the vehicle, e.g. front/rear, different seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/76 for spotlighting, e.g. reading lamps spotlighting on or for specific fittings B60Q3/20; spotlighting in mass transit vehicles B60Q3/44
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/80 Circuits; Control arrangements for dashboards B60Q3/16; for mass transit vehicles B60Q3/47

Abstract

When a drive priority mode or a relaxation mode is selected by operation of a mode selection switch, a driver'"'"'s seat and a passenger'"'"'s seat are illuminated with white-colored to cold-colored lights that cause strain, and a second-row and a third-row seats are illuminated with warm-colored lights that can produce relaxation. Therefore, an interior can be appropriately illuminated corresponding to the difference in comfortability required for the driver'"'"'s seat, the passenger'"'"'s seat, and the second-row and the third-row seats. Furthermore, a vehicle-interior illumination device of the present invention is configured to control order of lighting on/off of corresponding reading lights at the time of opening/closing of a slide door that opens and closes a doorway.

Claims

1. A vehicle-interior illumination device that illuminates a vehicle interior by at least three light sources that are arranged apart from one another at an interval at least in one direction of a front-back direction and a vehicle width direction of a vehicle, the device comprising

a control unit configured to make the light sources of both ends in a direction of the interval emit lights at mutually different color temperatures, and to make the other light sources emit lights at color temperatures that change in stages from the color temperature of the light source of the one end to the color temperature of the light source of the other end gradually from the one end toward the other end in the direction of the interval.

2. The vehicle-interior illumination device according to claim 1, wherein

the one end is a driver'"'"'s seat side in the direction of the interval, and

the control unit makes the light source of the one end emit light at a color temperature relatively higher than the light source of the other end.

3. The vehicle-interior illumination device according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit makes the respective light sources emit lights while changing luminance thereof in stages gradually from the one end toward the other end.

4. The vehicle-interior illumination device according to claim 2, wherein

the control unit makes the respective light sources emit lights while changing luminance thereof in stages gradually from the one end toward the other end.

5. A vehicle-interior illumination device that illuminates a vehicle-interior space continuous to a doorway opened and closed by a slide door of a vehicle by right and left two lines of light sources arranged apart from one another at an interval at a roof liner in a front-back direction, the device comprising

a control unit configured to sequentially turn on the respective light sources separately at least in three stages with more delayed timing as installation places are located farther from the doorway in opening the slide door.

6. The vehicle-interior illumination device according to claim 5, wherein

the control unit is configured to sequentially turn off the respective light sources separately at least in three stages with more delayed timing as the installation places are located closer to the doorway in closing the slide door.