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Lighting device for a motor vehicle

  • US 6,290,378 B1
  • Filed: 07/23/1999
  • Issued: 09/18/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A lighting device for arrangement on the external or internal rear view mirror of a motor vehicle, the lighting device comprising:

  • a light source generated by said lighting device;

    a transparent light refraction element;

    a mirror housing with an opening, the light rays of said light source emerging at said mirror housing opening and are deflected at said transparent light refraction element arranged in the beam path;

    a Fresnel prism plate-like light refraction element having a surface structure on one side dividing said Fresnel prism plate-like light refraction element into several lighty refraction zones, the light refraction zones corresponding to prism zones of a prism body which are pushed together in stepwise manner; and

    a condenser lens arranged in the beam path in front of the Fresnel prism.

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