Motor Vehicle

• US 20180222383A1
• Filed: 04/05/2018
• Published: 08/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: MUELLER, Michael, BAUER, Christian
• Granted Patent: US 10,322,670 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 3/62 using light guides
• 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: H05B 45/20 Controlling the colour of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/18 via data-bus transmission

Abstract

A motor vehicle has a central light control device, a plurality of peripheral light control devices distributed within the vehicle, and a plurality of interior light modules, each of which has a plurality of light sources and is associated with a peripheral light control device.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle, comprising:

a central lighting control device;

a plurality of peripheral lighting control devices distributed in the motor vehicle;

a plurality of interior light modules, each of which comprises a plurality of light sources, and each of which is assigned to a peripheral lighting control device;

a data bus, through which the central lighting control device and the peripheral lighting control devices are coupled to one another, wherein

the peripheral lighting control devices each comprise a data memory, in which lighting effect parameter sets are stored, to each of which a lighting effect identifier is assigned, and

the central lighting control device transmits lighting effect identifiers to peripheral lighting control devices in order to initiate motor vehicle interior lighting effects.

2. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the central lighting control device is coupled with detection devices for detecting motor vehicle operating states,

in the central lighting control device, different lighting effect identifiers or groups of lighting effect identifiers are assigned to different motor vehicle operating states, and

the central lighting control device is configured such that lighting effect identifiers or groups of lighting effect identifiers are transmitted to peripheral lighting control devices automatically, depending on a detected motor vehicle operating state.

3. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the central lighting control device is coupled to input devices for input of user preferences, wherein, in the central lighting control device, different lighting effect identifiers or groups of lighting effect identifiers are assigned to different user preferences, and

the central lighting control device is configured such that lighting effect identifiers or groups of lighting effect identifiers are transmitted to peripheral lighting control devices automatically, depending on a user preference that has been entered.

4. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the central lighting control device is coupled to input devices for input of user preferences, wherein, in the central lighting control device, different lighting effect identifiers or groups of lighting effect identifiers are assigned to different user preferences, and

the central lighting control device is configured such that lighting effect identifiers or groups of lighting effect identifiers are transmitted to peripheral lighting control devices automatically, depending on a user preference that has been entered.

5. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the activation of the light sources of a light module is defined through a lighting effect parameter set.

6. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein

at least one light module is optically coupled to a light guide or to a diffuser disk.

7. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1,

different lighting effect identifiers are assigned to the same lighting effect parameter sets in the respective data memories in different peripheral lighting control devices.

8. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the same lighting effect identifiers are assigned to the same lighting effect parameter sets in the respective data memories in different peripheral lighting control devices.