IN-CABIN LIGHTING DEVICE

• US 20200130575A1
• Filed: 10/25/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwano, Yoshihiro, Ito, Masaki
• Granted Patent: US 10,981,500 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2500/30 Arrangements for illuminating different zones in the vehicle, e.g. front/rear, different seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2900/50 Arrangements to reconfigure features of lighting or signalling devices, or to choose from a list of pre-defined settings
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/74 for overall compartment lighting; for overall compartment lighting in combination with specific lighting, e.g. room lamps with reading lamps general lighting mounted on specific fittings B60Q3/20; general lighting for mass transit vehicles B60Q3/43
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/80 Circuits; Control arrangements for dashboards B60Q3/16; for mass transit vehicles B60Q3/47
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/85 for manual control of the light, e.g. of colour, orientation or intensity
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 10/02 changing colors F21S10/002 - F21S10/007, F21S10/04 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/22 using optical feedback
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control

Abstract

An in-cabin lighting device has: a lighting section that emits light within a vehicle cabin, and that is configured to arbitrarily change a color of emitted light; a color detecting portion that detects a color of an detection target in a detection region that is set within the vehicle cabin; and a control section that changes the color of light emitted by the lighting section to the color detected by the color detecting portion.

Claims

1. An in-cabin lighting device comprising:

a lighting section that emits light within a vehicle cabin, and that is configured to arbitrarily change a color of emitted light;

a color detecting portion that detects a color of an detection target in a detection region that is set within the vehicle cabin; and

a control section that changes the color of light emitted by the lighting section to the color detected by the color detecting portion.

2. The in-cabin lighting device of claim 1, wherein the color detecting portion is disposed at a center console that is positioned between a driver'"'"'s seat and a front passenger'"'"'s seat within the vehicle cabin.

3. The in-cabin lighting device of claim 1, wherein:

the color detecting portion is disposed at an interior location within the vehicle cabin, and

a cover, which can be set in a state of covering the color detecting portion and in a state of exposing the color detecting portion, is provided at the interior location.

4. The in-cabin lighting device of claim 1, wherein the color detecting portion has a switch, the color detecting portion detecting the color of the detection target in a case in which the detection target is pressed against the switch.

5. The in-cabin lighting device of claim 2, wherein the color detecting portion is disposed at a rear end portion of the center console, at a vehicle rear side of a console box that is provided at a rear portion of the center console.

6. The in-cabin lighting device of claim 3, wherein the cover is slidably mounted to the interior location.

7. The in-cabin lighting device of claim 1, wherein an ignition switch is electrically connected to the control section, and in a case in which the ignition switch is turned off, the control section causes the lighting section to emit light of a standard color.