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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2017
Zkw Group Gmbh, Wieselburg, AT;
ZKW GROUP GMBH, Wieselburg, AT;
Abstract
The invention relates to a lighting unit () for a motor vehicle, which comprises a light module () and a mirror module (), wherein the mirror module () is designed to reflect the light emission produced by the light module () in an emission direction of the lighting unit (), characterized by: the light module (), which comprises at least one light source () and a first heat sink (), the mirror module (), which comprises a mirror unit () and a second heat sink (), a cooling system (), which comprises at least one inlet (), at least one outlet (), at least one line (), at least one flow unit (), a cooling medium, a first cooling sink, and a second cooling sink, wherein the inlet () and the outlet () are connected by the line (), and the flow unit () is inserted into the line () in order to produce a flow of the cooling medium in the line () and sucks in the cooling medium through the inlet () and discharges the cooling medium through the outlet (), and the first cooling sink is formed by the first heat sink () of the light module () and the second cooling sink is formed by the second heat sink () of the mirror module (), wherein the first cooling sink is arranged downstream of the second cooling sink.