International Automotive Components Group Gmbh

Agc Glass Europe

International Automotive Components Group North America, Inc.

International Automotive Components Group Na, Inc.

International Automotive Group Gmbh

Carter Scott Cannon

Henk Rijpkema

Huib Seegers

Sung-Uk Kim

Michael Behnke

Thomas Lambricht

Aaron Michael Delong

Marek Novotny

David Mark Pascoe

Laurent Vandievoet

Stephan Gutt

Robert Gorfer

Oliver Hierl

Carsten Müller

Daniel Christochowitz

Christian Mauritz

Florian Ross

Benno Berger

A lighting device for an interior trim part includes a light strip; a light strip carrier attached to the light strip along the length of the light strip, the light strip carrier including a laminar material; an adapter to which the light strip carrier is attached along the length of the light strip; wherein the adapter is configured to be attached to a rear side of an trim part to position the light strip at a front side of the trim part.

Lighting device, interior trim assembly including the lighting device and method of manufacturing a trim assembly

An interior trim article for a motor vehicle, comprises a decorative outer skin; a touch-sensor or proximity sensor; and a backlight lighting source disposed behind said touch sensor or proximity sensor to emit light through the touch-sensor and through the decorative outer skin.

Interior trim article for a motor vehicle

A vehicle control device comprising a display module with a display on a front face of the display module, a touch-sensitive layer, and a transparent cover attached to the front face of the display module where a front face of the transparent cover has a tactile feedback area. A haptic feedback unit is configured to provide an active haptic feedback by moving or deforming the transparent cover. A control unit is configured to display a graphical user interface on the display to receive a user input via the touch-sensitive layer and to trigger a vehicle function in response to the user input.

Vehicle control device and manufacturing method thereof

The disclosure relates to an interior trim part of a motor vehicle, which includes a support layer (), a cover layer () on a front side of the support layer and an illumination unit (-) on an opposite rear side of the support layer. The support layer includes a perforation (), which forms an illuminated structure when the illumination unit emits light through the perforation.

Interior trim part of a motor vehicle

A multi-value selection switch that includes an engagement surface with an integrated touch sensor. The integrated touch sensor includes a plurality of detectable positions that correspond to, for instance, a range of absolute or relative target input values between a predefined minimum and maximum. The engagement surface further defines a switch that actuates/activates based on detecting a user-supplied force and/or based on a user momentarily holding a finger/pointer position. A user can select a target input value by bringing a finger or other pointer within operable proximity of an associated detectable position and actuating the switch and/or momentarily pausing. In response, the selection switch outputs a control signal to an associated device to cause the same to adjust operation.

Switch device with integrated touch sensor

The disclosure relates to an interior trim part of a motor vehicle which comprises: a shaped part made of glass or a glass-like material which is arranged on the side of the interior trim part facing the interior of the motor vehicle, a thin-film display device which as seen from the motor vehicle interior is arranged behind the shaped part or is integrated therein, and a control device for activating the thin-film display device, so that the latter transmits an image through the shaped part to the interior of the motor vehicle.

Interior trim part of motor vehicle with thin-film display device

The disclosure relates to an interior trim part for a motor vehicle, which comprises: a support component and a cover layer on a visible side of the support component, wherein the support component has an opening which is covered by the cover layer, and an insert, which is received in the opening and has a top side which is covered by the cover layer, wherein the insert receives an electrical function module or is coupled to the same, which function module is equipped in order to emit and/or receive light and/or signals through the surface of the insert and the cover layer.

Interior trim part for a motor vehicle and method of its manufacture

An interior component of a vehicle comprises a carrier having a front face directed toward a passenger compartment of the vehicle and an opposite rear face; a speaker including an at least partially transparent diaphragm and a transducer coupled to the diaphragm. Movement of the transducer causes vibration of the diaphragm to generate sound by vibration of the diaphragm, the diaphragm having a front face directed towards the passenger compartment and an opposite rear face. The carrier provides a support along at least part of the periphery of the diaphragm where the diaphragm is attached to the carrier where the front face and the rear face of the diaphragm are free of the carrier across a part of the diaphragm surface so that the diaphragm is suspended in the carrier of the interior component.

Interior component of a vehicle

The disclosure provides a part of a vehicle, which includes a translucent cover layer having a front surface and a back surface; a heating layer comprising a translucent and opaque heating element extending in a plane of the heating layer, the heating layer located on the back surface side of the cover layer; and a lighting module associated with the heating layer and adapted for lighting the heating layer so that at least part of the heating layer is visible at the front surface side of the cover layer.

Trim part

The invention relates to an interior trim element for a motor vehicle which comprises: a translucent carrier component with a front side and a rear side, a translucent cover material on the front side of the carrier component and a light source on the rear side of the carrier component, wherein the translucent cover material has a Shore A hardness in the range between 60 and 80, wherein the interior trim element comprises at least one surface of a storage tray or storage compartment of the motor vehicle which is visible to passengers of the motor vehicle, and wherein the light source illuminates the visible surface of the storage tray or storage compartment.

Interior trim element for a motor vehicle

The invention relates to an interior trim component for a motor vehicle, which comprises: a carrier component, which determines the contour of the interior trim component, a cover layer, which is applied to a front side of the carrier component, and a light-emitting layer, which is applied to a back side of the carrier component, wherein the carrier component and the cover layer are transparent.

Light-emitting interior trim component for a motor vehicle

A trim means for a motor vehicle comprises a carrier having a B side and a C side. A recess is formed into the B side of the carrier, and the carrier has an aperture in the region at the edge of the recess. A planar lighting unit comes to lie flush in the recess on the B side of the carrier, so that on the B side of the carrier a substantially continuous planar surface of the carrier with the lighting unit is produced. The lighting unit has a connection cable which is guided through the aperture to the C side of the carrier, where it is connected with a plug connector, a further conductor or directly with a control unit. A cover layer is applied onto the B side of the carrier and covers the planar lighting unit and at least a portion of the surface of the carrier. The cover layer forms the visible side of the trim means and is permeable to the light emitted from the lighting unit.

Trim means for a motor vehicle having integrated lighting system

A relatively thin printed LED backlight device with an integral diffuser may be integrated into an interior trim component using a molding process, such as injection molding, compression molding and reaction injection molding. The display portion may be placed behind a textile surface or molded grille or may form a portion of the outer surface of the trim component to provide light to low light areas of the vehicle. Electronic circuitry and components may be printed on to the substrate of the device as part of an in-line continuous process at the molding station to allow low inventory and customization of each backlight device.

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Carter Scott Cannon