Vehicle

• US 7,901,119 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2009
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: Maier, Thoralf, Sturm, Dietrich, Kron, Alexander, Stahl, Hans-Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Husar; Stephen F
• Assistant Examiner(s): CRANSON JR, JAMES W
• Application Number:
  US12/470,101
• Publication Number:
  US 20100014307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: 362/494, 362/540, 362/542, 362/459, 362/19, 359/601
• US Class Current: 362/494
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/2665 on rear-view mirrors lighting devices for vehicle interior on or for rear-view mirrors B60Q3/258
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/008 for anti-collision purposes

Abstract

A vehicle has a lamp arranged outside a passenger compartment having a vehicle window through which light of the lamp penetrates into the vehicle. The lamp is arranged and constructed such that the light of the lamp is or will be polarized parallel to a plane of incidence of the light.

Claims

1. A vehicle, comprising:

a passenger compartment including a vehicle window;

a lamp operatively configured outside of the passenger compartment, the lamp emitting light that passes through the vehicle window; and

wherein the lamp is operatively configured such that the light is one of polarized and made polarized parallel to a plane of incidence of the light.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a polarization device part of, or associated with, the lamp, the polarization device being operatively configured to polarize the light parallel to the plane of incidence of the light.

3. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising an exterior mirror, the lamp being operatively arranged on the exterior mirror.

4. The vehicle according to claim 2, further comprising an exterior mirror, wherein at least one of the lamp and the polarization device are operatively configured on the exterior mirror.

5. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the plane of incidence is defined by a normal vector of the vehicle window in a point of incidence of the light and the direction of incidence of the light.

6. The vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the plane of incidence is defined by a normal vector of the vehicle window in a point of incidence of the light and the direction of incidence of the light.

7. The vehicle according to claim 3, wherein the plane of incidence is defined by a normal vector of the vehicle window in a point of incidence of the light and the direction of incidence of the light.

8. The vehicle according to claim 5, wherein a desired direction of incidence of the light is defined, the plane of incidence being defined by the normal vector of the vehicle window in the point of intersection of the desired direction of incidence with the vehicle window and the desired direction of incidence of the light.

9. The vehicle according to claim 6, wherein a desired direction of incidence of the light is defined, the plane of incidence being defined by the normal vector of the vehicle window in the point of intersection of the desired direction of incidence with the vehicle window and the desired direction of incidence of the light.

10. The vehicle according to claim 7, wherein a desired direction of incidence of the light is defined, the plane of incidence being defined by the normal vector of the vehicle window in the point of intersection of the desired direction of incidence with the vehicle window and the desired direction of incidence of the light.

11. The vehicle according to claim 8, wherein the lamp is operatively configured to emit light parallel to the desired direction of incidence.

12. The vehicle according to claim 9, wherein the lamp is operatively configured to emit light parallel to the desired direction of incidence.

13. The vehicle according to claim 10, wherein the lamp is operatively configured to emit light parallel to the desired direction of incidence.

14. The vehicle according to claim 8, wherein the desired direction of incidence is aimed from the lamp in a direction of a 95% eye ellipse.

15. The vehicle according to claim 12, wherein the desired direction of incidence is aimed from the lamp in a direction of a 95% eye ellipse.

16. The vehicle according to claim 13, wherein the desired direction of incidence is aimed from the lamp in a direction of a 95% eye ellipse.

17. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the lamp is at least partially configured to emit a turn signal light.

18. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the lamp is operatively configured to signal an object or a danger in a vicinity of the vehicle.

19. The vehicle according to claim 17, wherein the lamp is operatively configured to signal an object or a danger in a vicinity of the vehicle.